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Antarctica could be greener and home to new wildlife, major study of the continent's future finds
Date: 2021
Authors: Lee Kenny- Stuff
Summary: Antarctica could become greener and colonised by new wildlife, while some existing species will likely disappear, a major new study compiled by scientists from 14 countries has found.
What the future could hold for Antarctica’s unique ecosystems
Date: 2021
Type: Press Release
Authors: Antarctica New Zealand and Ian Hawes
Summary: Kiwi researchers are among twenty-five world-leading Antarctic biologists who have come together to produce a comprehensive “state-of-the-nation” style article on Antarctica’s ecosystems.
January update
Date: 2021
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Monthly Antarctic Science Platform update
2021 Tangaroa Voyage: Climate monitoring at key Antarctic ocean gateways
Date: 2021
Authors: NIWA Principal Scientist, Marine Physics, Dr Craig Stevens
Summary: In early January the NIWA vessel RV Tangaroa headed off to the Southern Ross Sea to conduct a range of science including some Platform-supported hydrographic timeseries mooring work along the Ross Sea continental shelf break - near Cape Adare.
Kiwi research team first to use planes to measure Antarctic sea ice
Date: 2021
Type: In the media
Authors: Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: A New Zealand research team has achieved a major milestone – being the first in the world to measure the thickness of Antarctic sea ice from the air. The team, led by University of Canterbury glaciologist Wolfgang Rack, has just published its findings, after using a modified plan towing special electromagnetic equipment to measure an 800-kilometre stretch of ice in the Ross Sea.
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?
Archive
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2021
- Budget 2021: Scott Base investment 'welcome news'
- The science behind remotely navigating a safe route across a crevassed ice shelf
- Have we taken control of Earth’s natural climate cycles?
- New research identifies potential tipping points for irreversible loss of the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) in the Amundsen Sea region
- March Update
- 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
- Field Update - Project 4 - McMurdo Sound
- Field Update - Project 3 - Dry Valleys
- Field Update - Proejct 1 - Ross Ice Shelf
- Field Update - Project 1 - Byrd Glacier
- Field Update - Project 1 - Siple Coast
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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