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Fishing for a glacier's secrets

Fishing for
a glacier's
secrets

It’s an ice fishing trip like no other.

A five-metre long drill. More than a kilometre of line. On a glacier tongue over an unmapped ocean. The mission: to suspend a string of sensors under the ice that will monitor the temperature, salinity and currents of the ocean below, every hour for the next few years.

How to drill an ice shelf — and why

How to drill
an ice shelf
— and why

Christmas Day 2023. While many of us are at the beach or around the barbie, a plucky team of four scientists and a polar field guide pitch their tents at what must be the world’s most remote campsite: the Shackleton ice shelf.

ACEAS welcomes Treasurer’s announcement of stop-gap funding

11 Dec 2025

RSV Nuyina alongside the Shackleton Ice Shelf during the Denman Marine Voyage. Image: Pete Harmsen / AAD ACEAS welcomes Treasurer’s announcement of stop-gap funding The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) warmly welcomes the announcement by the Treasurer, the Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP, of $5 million in stop-gap funding commencing 1 July […]

An ocean eddie in the Southern Ocean.

New ACEAS Explainer highlights risks of slowing global ocean overturning circulation

19 Nov 2025

New ACEAS Explainer highlights risks of slowing global ocean overturning circulation The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) today published a new Explainer on the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) – a vast system of ocean currents that underpins Earth’s climate and ocean health. Often described as the ocean’s ‘conveyor belt’, the MOC moves […]

Sea Ice

Australian Antarctic research at COP30

18 Nov 2025

Australian Antarctic research at COP30 Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science Deputy Director, Professor Matthew England (UNSW), is today presenting to the COP30 meeting in Brazil as part of a team of Australian scientists sharing a synthesis of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment. The presentation is part of the COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion, and […]

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