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Antarctic science-policy knowledge exchange practices in New Zealand
Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: Researchers have examined domestic stakeholder perspectives regarding Antarctic knowledge exchange, using Aotearoa New Zealand as a case study
Archive
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2024
- Antarctica's sea ice hit another low this year – understanding how ocean warming is driving the loss is key
- Platelet ice sampling system: the first deployment
- Podcast: The sea ice factories of Antarctica
- Antarctic science-policy knowledge exchange practices in New Zealand
- Tribute to Professor Craig Cary
- Antarctica's coasts are becoming less icy
- Signs found of worryingly fast Antarctic ice melt
- New Zealand scientists return from Antarctica's ice with information that could shape future climate policy
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #12: Crossing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #11: Robertson Bay
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #10: Sea ice, sunsets and science
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #9: Sheltering in sea ice
- Voyage to solve the mystery of Antarctica’s plummeting sea ice
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #8: Along the continental shelf break
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #7: Cape Colbeck & King Edward VII Land
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #6: The Bay of Whales
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #5: Traversing the Ross Ice Shelf
- SWAIS2C project ‘tantalisingly close’ to vital climate secrets
- Sea-ice trackers: Using GPS and Iridium satellites to follow sea ice break-out events
- New leaders to shape Antarctic Science Platform’s future
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #4: Katabatic winds
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #3: Terra Nova Bay
- Measuring Antarctic warming with moss
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #2: Crossing the Line
- Ross Sea Voyage Update #1: Leaving Lyttelton
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2023
- Rock Clocks: Using cosmogenic nuclides to reconstruct past ice sheet change
- Geophysical exploration at Discovery Deep
- Highlights from Antarctic ice dynamics research 2022/23
- Highlights from Antarctic ocean mechanics research 2022/23
- Highlights from ecosystems research 2022/23
- Highlights from sea ice and carbon cycle feedback research 2022/23
- We landed a camera on Venus before seeing parts of our own oceans – it’s time to ramp up observations closer to home
- Sea ice scientists call for urgent emissions reductions to keep our climate liveable
- New reconstructions of past ice sheet dynamics
- As Antarctic sea ice continues its dramatic decline, we need more measurements and much better models to predict its future
- Sea ice emergency summit
- Antarctic Science Platform Deputy Director
- Māori Doctoral PhD Scholarship, University of Otago
- SWAIS2C: A search for answers about ice sheet collapse
- Deploying soil sensors in Taylor Valley
- Thermal bird survey of surface environments in the Taylor Valley
- Ant-ART-ica: Using art to communicate Antarctic research
- Steering Group Deputy Chair
- Urgency of Southern Ocean research
- Concerned scientists call for immediate climate action
- Case study: New Antarctic Ice Sheet data contributes to policy and planning
- Case study: Detecting polynya from space
- Case study: Filter-feeding sponges as eDNA traps to monitor marine biodiversity baselines and change
- Case study: First fully coupled ocean-atmosphere model for the Ross Sea
- Future sea level rise in Aotearoa and Antarctica
- Friis Hills drilling project: New findings
- Antarctic Science Platform in the news 2022/23
- Under thinning ice at Lake Fryxell
- Antarctic tipping points: The irreversible changes to come if we fail to keep warming below 2℃
- Cold Call: Edition Six
- New map unlocks deep digital data of Antarctica’s history
- Why is Antarctic sea ice so hard to model?
- Sea ice and ecosystems
- The connections between sea ice and climate
- Sea ice and ocean circulation
- Record low Antarctic sea ice is another alarming sign the ocean’s role as climate regulator is changing
- Tangaroa voyage: Land-sea connectivity in the Ross Sea coastal environment
- Massive cavern beneath West Antarctic glacier teeming with life
- How to recover a mooring from under the sea ice
- Why is Antarctic sea ice melting?
- Tangaroa voyage: Northern Victoria Land's coastal marine life
- Tangaroa voyage: Phytoplankton in the Ross Sea
- Passing the baton: Farewell and thanks to Huw Horgan, welcome Dan Lowry
- MBIE’s mid-term review of the Antarctic Science Platform
- Rapid response to protect penguins from bird flu
- I am a polar oceanographer – this is what I do
- Receiving messages from the deep
- February Update
- Cold Call: Edition Five
- January Update
- SWAIS2C: Kiwi scientists involved in drill to uncover secrets of Antarctica's past
- Tangaroa voyage: Researchers to unveil Antarctic secrets
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2022
- December Update
- Independent Science Panel's review of the Platform
- Climate change & international diplomacy in Antarctica
- Survival of emperors depends on emissions reductions
- Fresh understanding of ice age frequency
- November Update
- Richard Levy honoured with a BLAKE Award
- Scientists chart 45 million years of Antarctic temperature change
- Robots race against climate change on seafloor
- Case Study: Scientific advice to international Antarctic Treaty meetings
- Case Study: International cooperation and ocean monitoring in the Ross Sea
- Case Study: Bespoke technology is advancing Antarctic research
- Case Study: Machine learning-assisted meta-analysis of biological research in Antarctica
- Sharing Antarctic Science Platform knowledge
- Highlights from sea ice and carbon cycle feedback research 2021/22
- Highlights from ocean mechanics research 2021/22
- Highlights from Antarctic ice dynamics research 2021/22
- Highlights from ecosystems’ research 2021/22
- Three new professors announced
- Tropical thunderstorms affect Antarctic melting
- Antarctic Science Platform in the News 2021/22
- June Update
- ‘Hidden world’ of marine life discovered in Antarctic ‘river’ under ice
- A map of the future
- Honour for decades of Antarctic research
- The search for answers in the ice
- Antarctica: coming to a postcode near you
- Cold Call: Edition Four
- Predicting sea level rise for Aotearoa New Zealand
- April Update
- Changes in the Ross Sea and the future of carbon storage
- The Southern Ocean carbon sink: Will it fill up?
- What's going on with Antarctica's weather?
- March Update
- On the Precipice: the climate change target humanity cannot afford to miss
- February Update
- Exploring Antarctica’s hidden under-ice rivers and their role in future sea-level rise
- SCAR early career researcher fellowships
- January Update
- Microbe communities discovered under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf
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2021
- The Bird that measures Antarctic ice
- Cabinet approves new plan for Antarctic and Southern Ocean research
- November Update
- 'Making a difference': Antarctic researchers honoured
- Drilling into Antarctica’s past to see our future
- Searching for answers: Supercooled crystals and fast ice
- Cold Call: Edition Three
- Antarctic science underpins urgency for climate action
- COP26, the IPCC Report and Antarctic Research
- Study reveals climate choices we make in coming decades are make or break – but we won’t see their impact in Antarctica this century
- New ice drilling technology developed in Wellington on its way to Antarctica
- Future of Antarctic plankton linked to sea ice, study shows
- ICSHMO 2022 Call for Abstracts
- Sea Ice Mass Balance Station install 2021
- Cold Call: Edition Two
- Case Study: ASP researchers contribute the IPCC Assessment Report 6
- Case Study: The 2021 ReLiCC voyage of the RV Tangaroa: contributions to the strategic intent of the Antarctic Science Platform
- Platelet Ice: A Unique and Fragile Antarctic Ecosystem
- Antarctic Research and New Zealand’s Climate Future
- The Changing Antarctic and Southern Ocean and Pathway to Policy
- July Update
- Spying on seals from space
- Contestable Funding Round “life changing” for early career researcher
- Past is prologue – Antarctica in a warming world
- Antarctica records its highest ever temperature
- June Update
- May Update
- April Update
- World can expect 50cm sea-level rise by 2100, even if warming stays under 2°C
- ECR - Olivia Truax Fullbright presentation
- 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: Edition One
- Official Modelling Hub Opening and Antarctic Science Platform Conference
- Cold Call: Edition One
- 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
- Case Study: Development of a National Capability for Improving Antarctic Environmental Projections for Evidence-based Decision Making
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Diving in Antarctica
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- Case Study: Development of an international scientific drilling consortium to understand “Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in a 2°C warmer world” (SWAIS-2C Initiative)
- 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