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2024 01 30 Jasmin RIS Lana

Ross Sea Voyage Update #5: Traversing the Ross Ice Shelf

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: After sailing beyond the katabatic weather system and its 100 knot winds, the team have just finished deploying a sequence of hydrographic moorings along the western part of the Ross Ice Shelf front.
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SWAIS2C project ‘tantalisingly close’ to vital climate secrets

Date: 2024
Type: Press Release
Authors: GNS Science Te Pū Ao, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington & Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: Antarctic Science Platform researchers are among the international team who have successfully drilled through 580 metres of ice, obtained the longest sediment core ever retrieved from the remote Siple Coast, and gathered crucial information in their mission to understand the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s past response to climate warming.
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Sea-ice trackers: Using GPS and Iridium satellites to follow sea ice break-out events

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Authors: Inga Smith
Summary: In spring 2023, researchers travelled to Antarctica to place GPS trackers on the sea ice. For the first time, multiple sea ice trackers are allowing the break-out of sea ice in McMurdo Sound to be studied in real time.
ASP

New leaders to shape Antarctic Science Platform’s future

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform is delighted to announce two new senior appointments to our team. Together, this pair will lead the Platform’s future strategic direction and develop a second 7-year research programme.
2024 01 28 meeting CR basler trasnfer team Lana

Ross Sea Voyage Update #4: Katabatic winds

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: Sixty knot freezing winds cascaded off the ice sheet and blasted out over the coastal ocean – in an event that persisted for several days. The team is inside a wind-forced coastal polynya; that's where sea ice is made.
2024 01 17 NZ team on 16th leg1

Ross Sea Voyage Update #3: Terra Nova Bay

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The  RV Laura Bassi headed to the Italian Mario Zuchelli Station. The weather has been very calm. (Spoiler alert: There will be wind. Lots of it. This is Antarctica.)
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Measuring Antarctic warming with moss

Date: 2024
Type: In the media
Summary: When it comes to Antarctic ice melt, how do we attribute retreat to climate change? For Dr Charles Lee, a microbial ecologist, the answer lies in measuring moss.
2024 01 12 cross ant circle Craig Stevens

Ross Sea Voyage Update #2: Crossing the Line

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: The RV Laura Bassi has crossed the Antarctic circle (66° 34’S), and last night the team spotted their first iceberg through the fog.

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