A moss bed in Antarctic Protected Area 135 at Casey Station, Australia. In 2022, Dr. Krystal Randall from the University of Wollongong collected data on the microclimate to model growing conditions and improve predictions about the impact of changing conditions on the...
Researcher Susannah Calderan about to deploy one of the sonobuoys used to record blue whale calls and songs. Photo: Dave Allen, Australian Antarctic Division The study analyzed data across the Southern Ocean from 2006 until 2021. Its results are great news for a...
The paved runway was to be built near the Australian Davis station. Apart from a misguided investment of 19 million AUS dollars, nothing is left of the original plan. (Photo: AAD / Andrew Garner) Australia’s government had hoped that a paved runway near its...
The new ice shelf-ocean model estimates the shape of cavities beneath ice shelves to improve modelling of ocean-ice interactions that cause melting beneath the ice shelf. Photo: Pete Harmsen A new Antarctic ice shelf-ocean model is revolutionizing predictions of...
Mawson Station, one of the Australian Antarctic Division’s bases on the frozen continent, will operate with reduced personnel during the 2023/24 austral summer. (Photo: AAD) Major scientific projects, including work to study the decline of sea ice around...
