Science and art meet in the Southern Ocean By Luca Magri, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies/University of Tasmania and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU The Southern Ocean is an immense water mass. The way it moves directly affects how other water masses circulate all around the globe, shaping the resulting climate systems from the tropics to
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Sailing on the spectrum: an autistic perspective of life on a research voyage By Rebecca Knight, University of Exeter, UK In middle of the night, I jolt awake to the sound of a distant alarm. Is it an emergency? No, it’s just one of the many everyday sounds of living on a ship. I’d wear
Finding stranger things: catching a real-life ‘Demogorgon’ from the Antarctic deep By Kat Prata, James Cook University/Securing Antarctica’s Environment Future (JCU/SAEF), Sarah Jessop, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies/University of Tasmania (IMAS/UTAS) and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU At first glance, you might think this strange-looking organism slipped through a fracture in space-time, perhaps via an Einstein-Rose
ACEAS Director Professor Matt King. Image credit: Peter W Allen UTAS. Tasmania unites for Antarctic science Tasmania’s role as Australia’s Antarctic gateway took centre stage today as representatives from all three levels of government joined leading Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientists at Parliament House to explore Why Antarctica matters to Tasmania. Hosted by the Tasmanian
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COOKIES wrap up: 55 Days in the Southern Ocean By Dr Linda Armbrecht, Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania) and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU Fifty-five days in the Southern Ocean is long enough to lose track of which day it is, but not long enough to lose
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How elephant seals can help us understand a changing Southern Ocean Every year, thousands of elephant seals leave subantarctic islands and disappear into the vast Southern Ocean for months at a time. Out there – often thousands of kilometres from land – they dive continuously, hunting in the dark depths of one of the planet’s
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Antarctic change drives slowdown of global ocean circulation New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster than scientists realised, with the rate of change accelerating over the past decade. This is of world-wide significance because as it sinks and fills up to 40% of the global ocean volume, the
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Warning signs from Antarctica: new ACEAS explainer brings recent extremes into focus Antarctica may feel remote from everyday life in Australia, but recent events show just how closely connected the frozen continent is to our shores. A new explainer from the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) brings together some of the most
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Antarctic sea-ice loss linked to declining productivity in the Southern Ocean New research by two scientists from the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) suggests that recent Antarctic sea-ice losses may be responsible for lower phytoplankton biomass in parts of the Southern Ocean the following year, with potential implications for marine food webs
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RINGS around Antarctica: global science team propose large-scale surveys of entire Antarctic coast Australian Antarctic scientists are part of a bold international plan to target the knowledge gaps that prevent reliable predictions about future sea-level rise. A new community-led scientific review proposes geophysical surveys of the entire Antarctic coastal region with three circumpolar rings around