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2024 01 30 Jasmin RIS Lana

Ross Sea Voyage Update #5: Traversing the Ross Ice Shelf

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: After sailing beyond the katabatic weather system and its 100 knot winds, the team have just finished deploying a sequence of hydrographic moorings along the western part of the Ross Ice Shelf front.
2024 01 28 meeting CR basler trasnfer team Lana

Ross Sea Voyage Update #4: Katabatic winds

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: Sixty knot freezing winds cascaded off the ice sheet and blasted out over the coastal ocean – in an event that persisted for several days. The team is inside a wind-forced coastal polynya; that's where sea ice is made.
2024 01 17 NZ team on 16th leg1

Ross Sea Voyage Update #3: Terra Nova Bay

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The  RV Laura Bassi headed to the Italian Mario Zuchelli Station. The weather has been very calm. (Spoiler alert: There will be wind. Lots of it. This is Antarctica.)
2024 01 12 cross ant circle Craig Stevens

Ross Sea Voyage Update #2: Crossing the Line

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The RV Laura Bassi has crossed the Antarctic circle (66° 34’S), and last night the team spotted their first iceberg through the fog.
Leaving Lyttelton

Ross Sea Voyage Update #1: Leaving Lyttelton

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The Ross Sea Voyage 2024 is underway. Seven scientists from the Antarctic Science Platform departed Lyttleton at 1700 on 6 January on Italy’s RV Laura Bassi icebreaker, with around 25 Italian colleagues. This climate-focused mission will spend two months at sea.
Hydrographic mooring being deployed in Terra Nova Bay

Highlights from Antarctic ocean mechanics research 2022/23

Date: 2023
Type: Update
Authors: Project 2
Summary: A changing Antarctica will impact oceanic transport of heat and other associated materials, such as salt, carbon dioxide, oxygen and nutrients. Researchers in the Antarctic Ocean Mechanics project are investigating past and present ocean conditions - currents, polynya formation, sea ice and dispersion of meltwater - and how this may change as the world warms.
Artwork depicting change in Antarctic sea-ice conditions. Photo: Marte Hofsteenge. CC BY-NC-ND.

Ant-ART-ica: Using art to communicate Antarctic research

Date: 2023
Type: People
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: PhD student Marte Hofsteenge is exploring the use of art to communicate with a wider audience about research in Antarctica.
95 288 Craig Potton

Antarctic Science Platform in the news 2022/23

Date: 2023
Type: Update
Summary: In case you missed it, here are some of the media and outreach opportunities our team was involved in during the past year. There were also public talks, school visits and publications in subscription-based magazines.

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