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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.

The magic of magnetotellurics: imaging how deep Denman Glacier is and what lies far beneath

25 Jul 2025

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 […]

Welcome to Professor Sridhar Anandakrishnan

03 Feb 2025

Welcome to Professor Sridhar Anandakrishnan ACEAS is honoured to welcome a special guest over the coming months. Professor Sridhar Anandakrishnan is with us from Pennsylvania, USA as a visiting Fulbright Scholar. His project is entitled ‘East meets West: integrating results from recent research in East and West Antarctica.’ We caught up with Professor Anandakrishnan to […]

Successful mooring deployment to unlock deep secrets of glacier stability

29 Jan 2025

Successful mooring deployment to unlock deep secrets of glacier stability The successful deployment of a deep-water mooring line in between the Scott and Denman Glaciers will feed back critical long-term data on the area’s warming waters, giving researchers new insights into the drivers of potential ice melt. In a breakthrough moment of the Denman Terrestrial […]

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.