Australian Antarctic Program Partnership

University of Tasmania @utas.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:59 UTC

Scientists have achieved a world first, combining unique geological samples from the seafloor with sophisticated modelling to reveal the origins of the Antarctic ice sheet, disproving assumptions that it covered the entire continent 🧊

utas.au/icesheet

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 04:36 UTC

⛺ "Nobody has ever been here before, let alone camped here for a month."

🧊 Join the adventure as a small science team investigates a massive #ice shelf in #Antarctica — and what it means for the rest of the world.

⏩ aapp.shorthandstories.com/how-to-drill...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:24 UTC

What happens when glaciers are ‘uncorked’ by the collapse of an #Antarctic ice shelf, and how much do they add to sea-level rise?
▶️ theconversation.com/we-used-1-00...

Nature Scientific Reports: High-resolution elevation models of Larsen B glaciers extracted from 1960s imagery (rdcu.be/dM9Fp)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:33 UTC

Warmer water eroding marine ice sheets from below could allow seawater to intrude much further inland, accelerating #Antarctic ice loss — and global sea level rise.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 02:29 UTC

Immerse yourself in this visually rich story: how a small team melted a hole through the Shackleton ice shelf in East #Antarctica — and what they discovered in the ocean beneath.

⏩ aapp.shorthandstories.com/how-to-drill...

@utas.bsky.social | @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 06:12 UTC

🥵 Another #ShowYourStripes Day in the global ocean.

Graphic: @edhawkins.bsky.social
showyourstripes.info/c/ocean/all

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 05:24 UTC

“Buried in the ice is a warning: This isn’t just a future risk. We need to plan for bushfire seasons worse than the Black Summer.” — Danielle Udy @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social @utas.bsky.social
aappartnership.org.au/of-ice-and-f...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 05:58 UTC

⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS at the Australian #Antarctic Research Conference, at @utas.bsky.social in Hobart, November 2024. Proposals are invited for short presentations, posters, lightning talks and side events.

Submit your abstracts by 5 August and register at leishman.eventsair.com/aarc/

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

Measuring temperature and salinity to depths of 6 kilometres, Deep Argo floats will revolutionise #oceanography in the abyss. Along with 15 floats from our partners IMOS and CSIRO, we're proud to add 10 more towards the global array target of 1,200 Deep Argo floats.

▶️ imos.org.au/news/newsite...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 04:07 UTC

A collection of 23 scientific articles on #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in free online journal 'Frontiers for Young Minds', written for kids, reviewed by kids. What's not to love? kids.frontiersin.org/collections/...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 29, 2024 at 06:33 UTC

Macquarie Island transformed: a Southern Ocean success story, from Australian Antarctic Division and Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service 👏👏
youtu.be/NlDWuUnfaR4?...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 04:17 UTC

Join us at University of Tasmania @utas.bsky.social in Hobart! We're recruiting for a 0.4 FTE Administration Assistant to join the AAPP Office team. Applications close 9 June 2024.
careers.utas.edu.au/cw/en/job/49...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 01:24 UTC

Scientists in Tasmania use robotic floats to follow the trail of windblown dust from land and find it fertilises ONE-THIRD of the Southern Ocean’s productivity — revealing the key role of dust in carbon storage and global climate.

🌬️ aappartnership.org.au/windblown-du...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 02:46 UTC

🛰 Two AAPP scientists in Tasmania (with Australian Antarctic Division and @utas.bsky.social) are part of an international team selected by NASA to develop a new satellite mission for monitoring the effects of climate change on vegetation, glaciers and sea ice.
aappartnership.org.au/australian-a...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 08, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

Congratulations to AAPP ice-sheet modeller Dr Chen Zhao @utas.bsky.social for receiving a JG Russell award from The Australian Academy of Science.
👏 aappartnership.org.au/aapp-researc...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 05, 2024 at 23:49 UTC

🌨 We’re very pleased to work with the Bureau of Meteorology, University of Utah, CSIRO and US Department of Energy on this important research about clouds in the Southern Ocean.
▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] May 02, 2024 at 02:26 UTC

Hello Australian Antarctic research community! 🗓 Save the dates for a national conference in November at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. More details soon.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 19, 2024 at 05:31 UTC

Our 1°C coldroom is home to probably the largest collection of live Southern Ocean zooplankton outside Antarctica. Copepods (like 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘴) are the most diverse zooplankton group in the SO, with more than 300 species. AAPP PhD student Inessa Corney is running respiration experiments.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 12, 2024 at 04:20 UTC

Two major reviews led by AAPP researchers about the future of Southern Ocean ecosystems in a changing world: '𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘬𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘺𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴' and '𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦'.
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/life-in-the-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 01:00 UTC

The limits of ice: what a 19th century expedition trapped in sea ice for a year tells us about Antarctica’s future — a cracking story by AAPP scientists @utas.bsky.social.
theconversation.com/the-limits-o...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 05, 2024 at 02:55 UTC

💡 "Secure a second cheaper vessel to ... free up the Nuyina so that we can actually do the 60 marine research days (a year) that were originally promised and still also maintain research in #Antarctica" — Prof Nathan Bindoff, AAPP leader @utas.bsky.social
🎧 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 05:26 UTC

Some of our favourite news from a busy summer season of #Antarctic and Southern Ocean fieldwork and research — the latest 'Southern Signals' science bulletin ➡️ createsend.com/t/j-F208BAC2...

To get your next 'Southern Signals' by email, please subscribe at aappartnership.org.au/contact-us/

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 26, 2024 at 04:23 UTC

In 1898, the RV Belgica was trapped for more than a year in two-metre-thick sea ice in the frozen Bellingshausen Sea.

In that same area during the 2022 and 2023 summers, there was almost no sea ice at all.

A story by @edoddridge.bsky.social, ACCESS-NRI, TERN & AAPP — youtu.be/HKarZagLQi8

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 21, 2024 at 23:34 UTC

🤩 Marine #zooplankton are eco-superstars. Without their carbon transport, no suitable climate for us. Without their nutrient recycling, food webs fall apart. Without their foundation, fisheries would collapse.

Statement from the global Zooplankton Symposium — aappartnership.org.au/conference-s...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 15, 2024 at 02:57 UTC

Marine #zooplankton in a warming world: their future matters more to us than you might think.
🦑 aapp.shorthandstories.com/mind-the-gap...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 13, 2024 at 23:33 UTC

Marine #zooplankton are the most abundant and diverse (and beautiful) ‘eco-influencers’ on the planet. We look forward to welcoming more than 340 scientists from 38 countries to Hobart next week for the International Zooplankton Symposium #ZPS7.
aappartnership.org.au/small-but-mi...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 08, 2024 at 04:22 UTC

💙 "The rhythmic expansion and contraction of sea ice is just like a heartbeat. Just as a change in our heartbeat affects our whole body, a change to sea ice around Antarctica affects the whole world." — @edoddridge.bsky.social from AAPP @utas.bsky.social with ACCESS-NRI
➡ youtu.be/b5O1PXpO5L8?...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 07, 2024 at 00:43 UTC

The incredible story of the Belgica 1897-1899 voyage and its crew – the first people to spend a winter south of the Antarctic Circle – and what it means for the changes in sea ice happening now. youtu.be/YS93JkDfRNA

As told by @edoddridge.bsky.social from @utas.bsky.social

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 05, 2024 at 04:55 UTC

👏👏 Welcome home to our hard-working #MISO voyagers, after two months of science at sea ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/miso/

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 03, 2024 at 23:32 UTC

🚢🌊 Long lap: “like driving between Sydney and Perth three times, at a max speed of 20 kmh.” An epic #MISO voyage of 60 days and 12000 km on CSIRO #RVInvestigator lands one of the most comprehensive datasets ever collected from the Southern Ocean.
aappartnership.org.au/from-carbon-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 29, 2024 at 01:05 UTC

Antarctic sea ice on PBS Terra, featuring experts from AAPP/@utas.bsky.social, Monash Uni, and Australian Antarctic Division.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGkJ...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 27, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

After 55 days at sea and almost 3000 samples, our GEOTRACES team on the #MISO voyage aboard CSIRO #RVInvestigator have sampled trace metals across thousands of kilometres of the Southern Ocean from #Antarctica to Australia.
Read more ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/trace-metal-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 00:44 UTC

Antarctic sea ice reached its summer minimum area of 1.97 million sq km on 18 February, the third lowest on record behind 2023 (lowest) and 2022.

New research led by AAPP @utas.bsky.social points to fundamental changes under way in the Antarctic sea-ice system.
aappartnership.org.au/good-things-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 23, 2024 at 05:31 UTC

“I like to say that ‘sea ice is life’, and my work strives to understand the role of #Antarctic sea ice as a global climate driver” — AAPP scientist Dr Pat Wongpan @utas.bsky.social wins 2023 Early Career Scientist Award from Int Glaciological Society.

👏 aappartnership.org.au/sea-ice-scie...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 20, 2024 at 01:04 UTC

Our #MISO voyagers have created a miniature SouthernOcean
aboard CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator, to explore the amazing links between phytoplankton biology and cloud formation.

Read more 🦠↔️🌨️ aappartnership.org.au/a-miso-soup-...

📷 C Traill, R Strzepek

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 19, 2024 at 03:41 UTC

"I’ve been trying to discover how the Southern Ocean works and what it means for climate for 40 years. We’ve learned a huge amount in that time." — Dr Steve Rintoul, AAPP/CSIRO oceanographer, about our current #MISO voyage on #RVInvestigator
aappartnership.org.au/super-cool-c...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 16, 2024 at 05:17 UTC

Dive into the Antarctic sea-ice crisis with this special feature 🧊 antarctica.gov.au/news/explore...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 14, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

Every day is UN #WomenInScience day for the MISO voyage aboard CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator.

▶️ aappartnership.org.au/internationa...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 13, 2024 at 04:38 UTC

"What the climate catastrophe in #Antarctica means for Australia" – an excellent interview with Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social @utas.bsky.social (from 9:20) listnr.com/podcasts/the...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 08, 2024 at 03:48 UTC

Julia Neme from @ccrc.bsky.social loves her 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity to travel with the frozen giants of the south on our #MISO voyage aboard @CSIRO research vessel #RVInvestigator. Read her story and check out the iceberg photos at aappartnership.org.au/in-the-land-...
📷 Knut Heinatz

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 07, 2024 at 04:48 UTC

AAPP atmospheric scientist @utas.bsky.social Marc Mallet writes about the amazing links between biology in the Southern Ocean and clouds in the skies above — while on
CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator at the icy edge of #Antarctica.
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/life-cycle-o...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 05, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

'Tasting' the many flavours of Antarctic ocean on the MISO voyage, aboard CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator. Read our latest blog post ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/tasting-the-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 01, 2024 at 23:10 UTC

⛷️ "What we want to know is a lot more about how stable the system is, how it's likely to change in the next few years." — AAPP's Dr Sarah Thompson @utas.bsky.social on Denman Glacier in east #Antarctica

🎧 Listen in to www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 01, 2024 at 05:28 UTC

Denman Glacier has potential to be one of the fastest retreating glaciers in east #Antarctica. This summer our glaciology team has been working on the ice shelf with our research partners. Watch this live cross from field leader Dave.
👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjb_...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 29, 2024 at 03:36 UTC

Our #MISO voyage on CSIRO #RVInvestigator is sampling vanishingly low concentrations of trace metals, to understand what controls Southern Ocean biology and its links to the carbon cycle and climate.
READ THE BLOG ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/tracing-the-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 29, 2024 at 03:32 UTC

To track super-cooled water flowing from under an ice shelf, the #MISO voyage on CSIRO #RVInvestigator sampled around the Mertz Glacier Tongue in east #Antarctica — and enjoyed a spectacular icescape.
👅 aappartnership.org.au/in-search-of...

(photo: Knut Heinatz, Chris Traill)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 24, 2024 at 04:45 UTC

AAPP PhD student Xiang Yang at @utas.bsky.social extends records of air-sea CO₂ exchange in the sub-#Antarctic zone over two decades by combining observations from the Southern Ocean Time Series (SOTS) mooring with data from satellites, floats and ships.

▶️ aappartnership.org.au/down-the-sin...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 23, 2024 at 04:48 UTC

Follow our MISO voyage as we travel across the Southern Ocean from Hobart to Fremantle via the #Antarctic ice edge. Co-chief scientist Dr Annie Foppert describes the Big Science Plan.

🫧 aappartnership.org.au/how-to-measu...

(MISO=Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Southern Ocean)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 21, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

“The Australian economy, and the global economy, is set up on #Antarctica being as it has been. We’re moving to a phase where Antarctica won’t be like that any more.” — Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social @utas.bsky.social in @guardianaustralia.bsky.social
▶️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 19, 2024 at 04:51 UTC

Our planet's second largest ice sheet: "Greenland’s glaciers are retreating everywhere and all at once"

Research briefing ▶️ rdcu.be/dwffe

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