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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.

Professor Nerilie Abram

Farewell and congratulations to ACEAS Deputy Director

22 Sep 2025

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, […]

Iceberg

ACEAS researchers named as IPCC authors

22 Sep 2025

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 […]

Phytoplankton | Image Credit: Pauline Latour

ACEAS reaches milestone of 300+ published research papers

22 Sep 2025

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 […]

Seasonal Newsletters

Read the latest ACEAS Seasonal newsletters as we seek to uncover the mysteries of East Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and better understand emerging climate risks.