Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific. Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC, Author provided Jakob Weis, Andrew Bowie, Peter Strutton and Zanna Chase, University of Tasmania and Christina Schallenberg, CSIRO The Southern Ocean, a region...
When nature takes her paintbrushes, the result is the Belcher Islands. Located on Hudson Bay, they are home to the small community of Sanikiluaq and its thousand inhabitants. Image: Landsat 7 / USGS From the convolutions of frozen rivers to concentrations of...
Julienne Stroeve is a polar climatologist who works in particular on ice and snow modelling. Picture: Michael Wenger The first day of the One Planet – Polar Summit ended with informal discussions yesterday after 10pm alongside the animals in the Muséum...
Buoys sensitive to temperature, depth and sound, and able of detecting the presence of zooplankton 50 metres below the surface of the ice, were installed in the Central Arctic Ocean in 2020 during the MOSAiC expedition. Image: Folke Mehrtens The results of a study...
You can’t tell by looking at it, but the Southern Ocean is highly productive thanks to a generally good availability of the micronutrient iron. Photo: Julia Hager Primary production in the Southern Ocean depends critically on the concentration of the...