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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.

Sand-sized fossils hold secrets to the history of climate change

21 Mar 2025

Sand-sized fossils hold secrets to the history of climate change Author: Yuhao Dai, Australian National University *This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass […]

Denman Marine Voyage: long-term vision now a reality

07 Mar 2025

Denman Marine Voyage: long-term vision now a reality Accessing the vast and remote Denman Glacier system in Australian territory in East Antarctica by ocean is a monumental task, and after many years of planning and collaboration it’s now a reality. The Denman Marine Voyage (DMV) – the maiden marine science voyage of RSV Nuyina – […]

Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound

04 Mar 2025

Melting Antarctic ice will slow the world’s strongest ocean current – and the global consequences are profound Authors: Taimoor Sohail, The University of Melbourne and Bishakhdatta Gayen, The University of Melbourne *This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. — Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current […]

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