How elephant seals can help us understand a changing Southern Ocean Every year, thousands of elephant seals leave subantarctic islands and disappear into the vast Southern Ocean for months at a time. Out there – often thousands of kilometres from land – they dive continuously, hunting in the dark depths of one of the planet’s […]
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Where Antarctic science meets policy Two polar research programs led by the University of Tasmania have presented the most recent science from Antarctica and the Southern Ocean to around 80 policy makers from all tiers of government and the non-government sector. The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) and the Australian Antarctic Program
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The beloved emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now officially endangered. Here’s what can be done In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition: the first breeding colony of emperor penguins.