Updates

Date: 2024

Type: Science

Summary: New Zealand now has an informative and searchable inventory of Antarctic and Southern Ocean research datasets.

Date: 2023

Type: Update

Authors: Project 1

Summary: The world’s ice sheets are sensitive to environmental change and, as the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth, melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet has significant potential to raise sea levels and disrupt global ocean circulation. To determine ice sheet response to warming, our team of researchers in the Antarctic Ice Dynamics project are looking at environmental records of how the Antarctic ice sheets and surrounding ocean have changed in the past, and comparing those records to signals of change that we can detect today.

Date: 2023

Type: Update

Authors: Project 2

Summary: A changing Antarctica will impact oceanic transport of heat and other associated materials, such as salt, carbon dioxide, oxygen and nutrients. Researchers in the Antarctic Ocean Mechanics project are investigating past and present ocean conditions - currents, polynya formation, sea ice and dispersion of meltwater - and how this may change as the world warms.

Date: 2023

Type: Science

Authors: Antarctic Science Platform

Summary: Five new reconstructions of past Antarctic ice sheet dynamics have recently been published, relying on sedimentological and geochemical analyses.

Date: 2022

Type: Update

Authors: Antarctic Science Platform

Summary: Each year science conducted by the Platform leads to a number of outputs. These can be found here.

Date: 2022

Type: Press Release

Authors: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Summary: Climate change is having significant impacts on Antarctica’s ice sheets, climate and life, with far-reaching global consequences, according to a new report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) released on May 24 at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Berlin.