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Good things don’t come in threes for Antarctic sea ice

26 Feb 2024

Good things don’t come in threes for Antarctic sea ice As this month marks the third consecutive summer with extremely low sea-ice cover around Antarctica, new statistical research points to fundamental changes taking place in the polar Southern Ocean. Antarctic sea ice reached its summer minimum area of 1.97 million km2 on 18 February, the third […]

MISO investigates how the Southern Ocean is responding to climate change

17 Mar 2024

MISO investigates how the Southern Ocean is responding to climate change The recently returned MISO voyage (Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Southern Ocean) was a 2-month journey along the edge of Antarctica on the RV Investigator. The scientists on-board gathered one of the most comprehensive datasets collected on the Southern Ocean. This included measurements of iron […]

40,000 years of sea ice dynamics unearths future clues

19 Oct 2023

40,000 years of sea ice dynamics unearths future clues A team of researchers has found that a decline in sea ice cover off East Antarctica at the end of the last ice age led to major climate warming and caused the Southern Ocean’s ´control valve´ to open and release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. […]

Travel award takes Antarctic studies to Europe

18 Oct 2023

Travel award takes Antarctic studies to Europe Earlier this year, ACEAS PhD student Josef Bisits received the Michael Tallis PhD research travel award, which allowed him to attend a prestigious summer school and an international conference in July for his area of research: physical oceanography.  “Being from Australia it can be difficult to cultivate working […]

On the edge: warming waters destabilising ‘cold’ ice shelf

12 Oct 2023

On the edge: warming waters destabilising ‘cold’ ice shelf Researchers have found large-scale anomalies in wind and sea ice are causing the waters below an East Antarctic ice shelf to warm, which could affect future sea level rise across the world. Dr Matthis Auger is a co-author of the new study published in Nature Geoscience, led by […]