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Antarctic researchers awarded funds to foster New Zealand and Australian collaboration

Date: 2025
Type: Press Release
Summary: Two Antarctic research teams have been awarded $20,000 in funding via a new grant to foster collaboration on Antarctic and Southern Ocean research across the Tasman Sea.
Tangaroa

Antarctic research voyage departs Wellington for the Ross Sea

Date: 2025
Type: Press Release
Summary: ASP researchers have set sail for Antarctica on NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa to continue research into impacts of climate change on Antarctica’s Ross Sea, and the impacts of a changing Ross Sea on the rest of the globe.
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International team launch second attempt to drill deep for Antarctic climate clues

Date: 2024
Type: Press Release
Summary: Antarctic Science Platform climate researchers are part of an ambitious mission to recover critical geological records to help forecast future sea-level rise. The first team members have embarked on a 1128 km journey across the Ross Ice Shelf to set up camp on the edge of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Eva Nielsen - Canterbury U - Photo supplied

New research finds significant warming of Ross Sea region

Date: 2024
Type: Press Release
Authors: University of Canterbury
Summary: PhD candidate Eva Nielsen has created a new dataset of Antarctica’s temperature over the past 20 years analysing its trends and temperature extremes as part of her research.
Patrick Gower: On Ice

Patrick Gower brings Antarctic science to New Zealand screens

Date: 2024
Type: Press Release
Summary: Patrick Gower: On Ice, a two-part special about Antarctica and climate change, makes its television debut today. It features a number of Platform researchers who share their science.
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Antarctica's coasts are becoming less icy

Date: 2024
Type: Press Release
Summary: An increase in pockets of open water in Antarctica’s sea ice (polynyas) may mean coastal plants and animals could one day establish on the continent, University of Otago-led research suggests.
SWAIS

SWAIS2C project ‘tantalisingly close’ to vital climate secrets

Date: 2024
Type: Press Release
Authors: GNS Science Te Pū Ao, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington & Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: Antarctic Science Platform researchers are among the international team who have successfully drilled through 580 metres of ice, obtained the longest sediment core ever retrieved from the remote Siple Coast, and gathered crucial information in their mission to understand the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s past response to climate warming.
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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