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The SA Agulhas II is helping South Africa to become a leader in Antarctic science.
Strategic tensions with Russia and China are hardening globally and Antarctica won’t be immune from them. Can Antarctica stay peripheral, as it has in previous moments of geopolitical heat?
Scott Morrison on Tuesday will announce $804.4 million over a decade to strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in the Antarctic.
Microphones on the seafloor recorded life under the Antarctic ice for two years – inadvertently catching seal trills and chirps that are above the range of human hearing. Could they be for navigation?
Carbon emissions are chilling the atmosphere 90km above Antarctica, at the edge of space
It would be the first concrete runway in Antarctica and have the biggest footprint of any project in the continent’s history.
As the world warmed from the last ice age, a rise in carbon dioxide levels stalled for nearly 2,000 years. That’s always puzzled scientists, but now they think they know what happened.
Two centuries after it was first sighted by Russian explorers, Antarctica is a key site for studying the future of Earth’s climate – and for global scientific cooperation.
Sending autonomous vehicles to the Southern Ocean can be fraught with anxiety, especially if one of them doesn’t make radio contact when it’s supposed to.
A paleooceanographer describes her ninth sea expedition, this time retrieving cylindrical ‘cores’ of the sediment and rock that’s as much as two miles down at the ocean floor.
Antarctic sea ice cover fell to an all-time low recently and hasn’t yet recovered. Why? The initial answers could lie in an unlikely place – the tropics.
There are some limits on what countries can do in the Antarctic, but not when it comes to science.
Sidney Jeffryes achieved a world first by establishing wireless contact between Antarctica and Australia. But his mental illness meant he gradually vanished from history - until now.
Scientific research into the effects of climate change in Antarctica - and its history of intrepid exploration - is inspiring contemporary Australian composers.
Preliminary results of a study have shown microplastics have reached in a newly revealed Antarctic environment.
Last summer one of Antarctica’s floating ice shelves calved an iceberg the size of Delaware – but scientists say other less dramatic changes reveal more about how and why Antarctica is changing.
Australia must keep up its scientific presence in Antarctica and work with others if it’s to maintain its territorial claim on the frozen continent.
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Principal Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Associate Dean - Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Chief Investigator, ARC Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future; Professor, Monash University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research at the University of Technology Sydney and Chief Investigator of ARC Centre for Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Associate Professor Psychological Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Professor, School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania
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Conservation Biologist, The University of Queensland
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Research scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Pro Vice Chancelllor, Cranfield University
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Senior Lecturer in Marine Geology, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Conservatorium of Music, School of Creative Arts and Media; Adjunct Senior Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
