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Hauwai20 unboxed photo from Charles Lee

SCAR 2024: HAUWAI-20 autonomous biological sampler

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: This groundbreaking innovation has the potential to transform Antarctic marine research. The autonomous biological sampler HAUWAI-20 will be deployed in Antarctica for the first time this season. Here’s some highlights from a presentation by Dr Charles Lee at SCAR 2024.
Ross Sea Voyage 2024: Laura Bassi Ross Sea Voyage Photo by Lana Young

Signs found of worryingly fast Antarctic ice melt

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Authors: Radio New Zealand
Summary: Scientists returning from a voyage into Antarctic waters say they found worrying evidence about how much ice has melted and how quickly.
2024 02 19 ASP team on Helo deck Lana Young

Ross Sea Voyage Update #12: Crossing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: It’s the last chance for bird watching and ocean sampling, as the ship heads north to New Zealand. Molte grazie (many thanks) to all of our supporters.
Ross Sea Voyage 2024 Robertson Bay

Ross Sea Voyage Update #11: Robertson Bay

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: Icebergs everywhere in Robertson Bay – a corner of the Ross Sea, and a place that acts as a record of change. Conditions allowed the team to complete sediment cores and CTD profiles, before they head north for the return journey to New Zealand.
Ross Sea Voyage 2024: Sunset sea ice

Ross Sea Voyage Update #10: Sea ice, sunsets and science

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: As the vessel works its way south into the Joides Trough, the team is seeing some spectacular sunsets and sharing some incredible imagery, while collecting biophysical baseline data.
Ross Sea Voyage 2024: Sea ice

Ross Sea Voyage Update #9: Sheltering in sea ice

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The team are hiding in the pack ice! But between the storms, they’ve managed to undertake about 36 hours of science activities, including moorings, CTD profiles, a zooplankton trawl and recovery of a sediment trap.
Mooring deployment 2 Lana Young

Ross Sea Voyage Update #8: Along the continental shelf break

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The team are celebrating wāhine - while they're bashing through sea ice to get to a clear patch of water near Cape Hallett. They hope to be out of the coming wind and waves. Meanwhile, some great kit is going into the water - the 11 new Argo floats roughly doubles the profilers on the Ross continental shelf.
2024 02 06 berg snow Edward Vii land Craig Stevens

Ross Sea Voyage Update #7: Cape Colbeck & King Edward VII Land

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The team have just finished working in the Cape Colbeck Area, the northeast limit of the Ross Sea embayment. This is likely one of the critical gateways for the Ross Sea continental shelf area, as it is downstream from the hot glaciers of the Amundsen Sea. As if to prove the point, the region is strewn with very large icebergs, many likely spawned in the Amundsen Sea.

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