Now is not the time to put funding on ice – Australian Antarctic field programs should be ambitious as the rule not the exception, writes Matt King. *The following is an opinion piece by ACEAS Director Professor Matt King, published first in the Mercury newspaper on Thursday 3 July, 2025 — When Australia’s new icebreaker, […]
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Introducing Dr Devsamridhi Arora ACEAS researchers recently welcomed a special guest from India’s Antarctic science community. Dr Devsamridhi Arora was here at IMAS/UTAS, Hobart from the University of Allahabad in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, as a visiting 2025 SCAR INSTANT Fellow. Her collaborative project is entitled ‘Integrating sub-ice geological heterogeneity into Geothermal Heat Flow: A Case
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“We are addressing a critical challenge”: the future of marine ecosystem modelling Marine ecosystem researchers from around the world have gathered in Hobart to discuss the big challenges facing those tracking and projecting how our oceans respond to climate change. ‘Advancing Regional Marine Ecosystem Modelling: from Southern Ocean to Global Perspectives: A FishMIP Regional Modelling
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New round of seal-borne observations to help fill knowledge gaps in key Antarctic region A team of specialist seal taggers has successfully tagged 14 southern elephant seals at Macquarie Island with satellite-linked devices, to monitor conditions in the Southern Ocean and along the Antarctic Shelf adding valuable observations to better understand the physics and biology
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The magic of magnetotellurics: Imaging how deep Denman Glacier is and what lies far beneath For the second summer running, ACEAS geophysicist Dr Maria Costanza (Coti) Manassero is camped in the remote Bunger Hills in East Antarctica, about 450 kilometres from Australia’s Casey Research Station. It’s the last leg of the three-year Denman Terrestrial field
Antarctic science underpins national climate risk assessment A report from the University of Tasmania reveals that a rapidly changing Antarctica will drive some of the major impacts on Australia in the next 25 years. The technical report about climate change impacts in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean regions is a key input to Australia’s first
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ACEAS research includes the study of phytoplankton blooms | Image Credit: Pauline Latour ACEAS reaches milestone of 300+ published research papers ACEAS has reached an exciting milestone – more than 300 research papers are now listed in the publications database Scopus. Each publication represents months, sometimes years, of rigorous scientific work, advancing knowledge of Antarctica’s
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ACEAS former Deputy Director, Professor Nerilie Abram Farewell and congratulations to ACEAS Deputy Director August marked a significant transition for ACEAS as we farewelled our Deputy Director, Professor Nerilie Abram (Australian National University), who has stepped into the nationally significant role of Chief Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Since ACEAS’s inception, Nerilie’s insight,
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Credit: Pete Harmsen / AAD ACEAS researchers named as IPCC authors We extend our congratulations to a range of ACEAS Chief Investigators and Partner Investigators on their selection for authorship in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) Working Group 1 report. These include ACEAS Chief Investigator, Associate Professor Laurie Menviel
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Protect Antarctica to keep Earth habitable, scientists warn Antarctica may feel distant, but its fate is deeply tied to ours. In a new Nature comment article, leading Antarctic scientists – including ACEAS Director Professor Matt King and colleagues from University of Tasmania, CSIRO and University College London – have sounded the alarm that urgent action
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