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Drilling through Antarctic ice

Massive cavern beneath West Antarctic glacier teeming with life
Glaciologists bored 500 meters through the Kamb Ice Stream to access the cavern
Date: 2023
Type: In the media
Authors: Science News
Summary: Until recently, no human had ever glimpsed this secret landscape. Scientists had merely inferred its existence from the faint reflections of radar and seismic waves. But in the closing days of 2021, a team of scientists from New Zealand melted a narrow hole through the glacier’s ice and lowered in a camera.
Fig 7 site 20221026 182209 Natalie Robinson

How to recover a mooring from under the sea ice
Date: 2023
Type: Science
Authors: Natalie Robinson
Summary: Find out how this past summer, in Antarctica, we recovered an experimental oceanographic mooring from under the sea ice.
Sea ice photo by Tim Haskell

Why is Antarctic sea ice melting?
Date: 2023
Type: In the media
Authors: Radio New Zealand
Summary: Researchers in our southernmost continent were shocked to find stretches of sea ice disappearing, and while they don't know why it's happening, the consequences could be catastrophic.
Miles Lamare Tangaroa

Tangaroa voyage 2023: Northern Victoria Land's coastal marine life
Date: 2023
Type: Update
Summary: Researchers recently returned from a 6-week research voyage on the RV Tangaroa to the Southern Ocean and Ross Sea region of Antarctica. They were able to access enough nearshore water to complete planned research into coastal benthic biota. They gathered over 4,000 images of benthic marine life and filmed 41,000 square metres of sea floor previously unseen. Here's Miles Lamare’s highlights.
Deploy tracemetal sampler Matt Druce

Tangaroa voyage 2023: Phytoplankton in the Ross Sea
Date: 2023
Type: Update
Summary: Researchers returned recently from a 6-week research voyage aboard the RV Tangaroa to the Southern Ocean and Ross Sea region of Antarctica. A total of 333 trace metal concentration and 130 trace metal isotope samples were collected, including characterisation of sea ice and glacial ice. Here's Cliff Law's highlights.
Dan Lowry

Passing the baton: Farewell and thanks to Huw Horgan, welcome Dan Lowry
Date: 2023
Type: People
Authors: Richard Levy
Summary: Dr Dan Lowry is stepping up as Co-Principal Investigator role of the Antarctic Ice Dynamics Project
Dry Valleys work

MBIE’s mid-term review of the Antarctic Science Platform
Date: 2023
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: A mid-term review of the Antarctic Science Platform has revealed it has done an excellent job, and pointed out opportunities for further improvement.
Skua

Rapid response to protect penguins from bird flu
Likelihood of H5N1 reaching Antarctica
Date: 2023
Type: Press Release
Authors: Waikato University
Summary: With support from The University of Waikato (UOW) Environmental Research Institute (ERI) and Antarctica New Zealand, ASP researcher Professor Craig Cary undertook a world first survey for bird flu in Victoria Land.
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