Updates

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: James Renwick

Summary: Antarctic sea ice has an annual seasonal cycle of formation and melting, plus it’s exposed to the winds and storms of the Southern Ocean and to a range of climate influences from near and far.

Date: 2023

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Rowan Howard-Williams, Denise Fernandez, Craig Stevens

Summary: Formation of Antarctic sea ice affects ocean circulation across the globe. Understanding the mechanisms linking these phenomena is crucially important to understand the impacts of future change in Antarctica.

Date: 2023

Type: In the media

Authors: Craig Stevens

Summary: A changing climate is upon us, with more frequent land and marine heatwaves, forest fires, atmospheric rivers and floods. For some, it is the backdrop to day-to-day life, but for a growing number of people it is a life-changing reality.

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. Dr Sarah Seabrook went searching for seafloor seeps of subglacial fluids into the ocean.

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.

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.

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.

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.