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.
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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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Lecturer in Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Leader, Ocean and Antarctic Governance Research Program, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of English and ARC Future Fellow, 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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Senior Lecturer in Marine Geology, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer in Musicology, Conservatorium of Music; Associate Head - Research, School of Creative Arts; Adjunct Researcher, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of Biology, University of West Florida
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of Exeter
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Data Interpretation Ecologist, British Antarctic Survey
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford University
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Graduate Student Researcher, University of California San Diego
