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Bird's Icy View
Date: 2021
Type: Press Release
Authors: Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: A Kiwi research team has, for the first time ever, used a fixed wing aircraft to measure the thickness of a huge area of sea ice in Antarctica.
December Update
Date: 2020
Type: Update
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Monthly Antarctic Science Platform Update
Change on ice
Date: 2020
Type: In the media
Summary: Otago scientists are taking prominent roles in an important Antarctic Science Platform programme to investigate how a warming world will impact ecosystems in the Ross Sea. Will two degrees be too much?
'People say summer is early — that would never happen in a Māori world view' - Stuff
Date: 2020
Type: In the media
Authors: Stuff
Climate emergency chance to use evidence-based solutions
Date: 2020
Type: In the media
Authors: Otago Daily Times
Summary: Declaring a climate emergency shows New Zealand is committed to evidence-based solutions in the face of the world’s most challenging problems, University of Otago PhD student Olivia Truax says. Ms Truax, from the university’s geology department, was among a group of Antarctic scientists who supported Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s declaration of a climate emergency this month.
Antarctic scientists support climate emergency
Date: 2020
Type: Press Release
Authors: Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: Antarctic scientists say the Prime Minister’s declaration of a climate emergency in New Zealand is an important signal to industry and communities, to consider climate change consequences in all their decision-making efforts.
Cold Call: December 2020
Issue 1
Date: 2020
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Cold Call delivers policy-relevant Antarctic science insights. In other words, we’ll bring you hot topics, from the coldest places. And we’ll take care of the logistics: important polar science and policy advances will be translated, summarised with 3-4 updates per year
Official Modelling Hub Opening and Antarctic Science Platform Conference
Date: 2020
Type: Update
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: On the 17th of November, Hon David Parker, Minister for the Environment opened the National Modelling Hub. It is the first of its kind in New Zealand and is a collaboration between the Platform, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, NIWA and GNS Science.
Archive
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2021
- February Update
- Scientists accidentally discover life deep underneath Antarctic ice shelf
- More plants could begin to 'invade the Antarctic Peninsula' as the frozen continent warms
- Antarctica could be greener and home to new wildlife, major study of the continent's future finds
- What the future could hold for Antarctica’s unique ecosystems
- January update
- 2021 Tangaroa Voyage: Climate monitoring at key Antarctic ocean gateways
- Kiwi research team first to use planes to measure Antarctic sea ice
- Bird's Icy View
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2020
- December Update
- Change on ice
- 'People say summer is early — that would never happen in a Māori world view' - Stuff
- Climate emergency chance to use evidence-based solutions
- Antarctic scientists support climate emergency
- Cold Call: December 2020
- Official Modelling Hub Opening and Antarctic Science Platform Conference
- Ka pai Caroline
- November Update
- Scott Base staff continue Antarctic scientific project with coaching from New Zealand-based experts
- Icy science, but without the scientists on ice
- A modelling milestone
- Policy implications of Antarctic ice sheet melting and global sea-level research
- A Greener Antarctica
- A Climate Crisis Opportunity?
- October Update
- Welcome to our Antarctic whanau Dr Dan
- PhD Scholarship - Machine learning for uncertainties of past ice-volume changes
- September Update
- Introducing our modelling fellows
- Supercomputers and super cool science
- August Update
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Drilling through the world’s largest ice shelf for a glimpse into the future
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Forays into Frozen Oceans
- New Board members for Antarctica New Zealand
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Diving in Antarctica
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- July Update
- The Warming South Pole
- Kāhui Māori to protect and guide Antarctic as well as climate adaptation research
- Antarctica's ICEperts - a webinar series
- June Update
- Congratulations to the Melting Ice and Rising Seas team
- COVID-19 Impacts Antarctic Field Season
- May Update
- Emotive new documentary episode highlights Antarctica’s global role in sea level rise
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response update
- April Update
- Two new PhD opportunities with Project Three
- Antarctica New Zealand Update
- Update from the ice
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response
- Remembering an Antarctic legend
- PhD Scholarship: Distribution modelling of Antarctic species
- From the 2019-2020 Field Season
- PhD Scholarship: Extracting and compiling knowledge of biology across the Ross Sea Region
- Drilling for icy answers
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2019
- Our new rock-star Professor
- Tsunami report for Scott Base
- Antarctica to London
- Scott Base remembers
- Ten million dollar plan
- Marsden success for Antarctic science projects
- Contestable funding recipients announced
- Welcome Tim Naish
- NIWA PhD Scholarship
- Marvellous modelling
- 60 years of the Antarctic Treaty
- Spotlight on Antarctic science
- Climate secrets buried deep beneath the Southern Ocean
- Millions of dollars for Antarctic research
- Applications open for four three-year research fellowships
- New Chief Executive for Antarctica New Zealand
- Sun sets on another science season
- Youthfull toothfish abound
- Antarctica Unfrozen, a podcast series
- Diving to new depths for Antarctic science
- Congratulations Professor James Renwick
- In memory of Professor David Walton
- Bombs away in Terra Nova Bay
- Sir Ed's temperate legacy
- Antarctic stars in their eyes
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2018