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Sea ice emergency summit
Date: 2023
Type: Update
Summary: As Antarctic sea ice extent hits a record winter low, concerned scientists have called an emergency summit in Wellington next week.
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Antarctic Science Platform Deputy Director
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Date: 2023
Type: People
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform is seeking a Deputy Director to provide strategic vision and leadership for the design, development and implementation of a second phase of research and funding.
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Māori Doctoral PhD Scholarship, University of Otago
Date: 2023
Type: Opportunity
Summary: A three-year PhD scholarship is available to support an emerging Māori student interested in using modern genetic research tools to understand environmental change and ecosystem responses in the Antarctic.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet by Alex Michaud

SWAIS2C: A search for answers about ice sheet collapse
Date: 2023
Type: Update
Authors: Prof Richard Levy and Ceridwyn Roberts
Summary: The drilling project will be the first-ever attempt to obtain a long sedimentary record from well-below the seafloor in West Antarctica. This is ‘discovery science’ - there remains great uncertainty around the age and nature of what will be recovered.
Tamara Pletzer downloads data from the soil sensors in front of Canada Glacier. Photo: Ian Hawes

Deploying soil sensors in Taylor Valley
Date: 2023
Type: Science
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Collecting a year’s worth of soil temperature and moisture data in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to validate remote monitoring approaches.
Thermal Bird in the air over Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley. Photo: Eva Bendix Nielsen

Thermal bird survey of surface environments in the Taylor Valley
Date: 2023
Type: Science
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: A newly developed infrared and visible camera system, a thermal bird, has been used to survey different Antarctic surface environments in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Artwork depicting change in Antarctic sea-ice conditions. Photo: Marte Hofsteenge. CC BY-NC-ND.

Ant-ART-ica: Using art to communicate Antarctic research
Date: 2023
Type: People
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: PhD student Marte Hofsteenge is exploring the use of art to communicate with a wider audience about research in Antarctica.
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Steering Group Deputy Chair
Expressions of Interest
Date: 2023
Type: Update
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform is seeking expressions of interest for a Deputy Chair for the Platform Steering Group. The Deputy Chair will take a governance leadership role in transitioning the Platform to a second tranche of funding which begins on 1 July 2025.
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