How did Earth’s most powerful ocean current form? New research led by Hanna Knahl from @awi.de, with colleagues including ACEAS Research Associate Dr @hochmuth.bsky.social from @utas.edu.au, has revealed a surprising finding. Learn more: www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

How did Earth’s most powerful ocean current form?

It transports far more than 100 times as much water as all of the Earth's rivers combined: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current rushes around the southern continent unhindered by land masses and is there...

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How is Antarctic Bottom Water formed at Cape Darnley? With @oceanhelen.bsky.social and others we show: ❄️ Mackenzie Polynya boosts formation 🧊 Amery Ice Shelf melt suppresses formation Important for future climate projections agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... UQ, @antarctic.bsky.social

One of my favourite emails to reach me this year: My @awi.de colleague send a message in a bottle to his kids from an #Antarctic expedition and the bottle reached my home #Tasmania after only 900 days at sea travelling 15,000km! Quick work for the mighty #SouthernOcean! www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean hold critical clues about our changing climate – understanding this change is essential for communities worldwide. Watch our latest video to find out how ACEAS is improving physical climate and ecosystem projections. 🎬 Watch now: youtu.be/Us2a4ulf404

From Data to Decisions: How ACEAS Improves Climate and Ecosystem Projections

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Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK: "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️

🌏 Happy Antarctica Day! ❄️ Today we celebrate global cooperation in protecting and understanding one of Earth’s most unique and fragile environments. A huge thanks to all our researchers for driving this work forward every day. 🎥 Learn more in our new ACEAS video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGg3...

Introduction to ACEAS

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Thank you to the Parliamentary Friends of the Antarctic for hosting our information event at Parliament House this week, and particularly the co-chairs Senators Duniam, Whish-Wilson and Dowling of Tasmania for their tripartisan support of #Antarctic science.

So excited to work with this wonderful team! We will be working on samples collected on land and marine campaigns during the last two Antarctic seasons and investigate how the Aurora Basin will react to a warmer climate! 🐧❄️🧊⚒️🧪

Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS)@antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

👏 Congratulations to a team of ACEAS researchers who have been awarded an ARC Discovery Project grant to investigate East Antarctica’s Aurora Subglacial Basin – a region posing one of the greatest risks for multi-metre sea level rise this century. Read more: antarctic.org.au/aceas-resear...

🌍 Last week, 140+ Antarctic scientists came together in #Hobart for our ACEAS Research Forum 2025 to share the latest research and insights about the climate risks emerging from #Antarctica and the #SouthernOcean. Read more: antarctic.org.au/aceas-resear...

ACEAS Research Forum 2025: a national gathering of Antarctic science excellence - ACEAS

More than 140 researchers from across Australia gathered in Hobart last week for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) Research Forum, held from 5 to 7 November at the Univ...

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How vulnerable is East Antarctica’s ice in a warming world? 🧊🌍 Thrilled to be awarded #ARC funding with my stellar collaborators! We will explore geological archives that record how the ice sheet reacted to past warm periods — and what that could mean for our future. @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social

“A lot of nations are sort of going backwards just at a time when we really need to advance our understanding of Antarctica.” - @deformedearth.bsky.social on Antarctic research publication trends, on the ABC’s 7:30 ⬇️ @utas.edu.au @antarctic.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Antarctica – a continent dedicated to science

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...

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Join the Denman Glacier geology 🪨🌋⛏️ team for an evening at the pub this Tuesday! We will be bringing our rocks from Antarctica, the venue has the drinks, all that is missing are your questions! #Beakerstreet 🧪❄️🌊 more information: tickets.beakerstreet.com.au/Events/SCIEN...

"That is a crisis in terms of our ability as a nation to do the work we need to do to inform the policymakers, but also just to show that we take Antarctica seriously." - Director @deformedearth.bsky.social on the approaching funding cliff for #Antarctic research ⬇️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Antarctic research jeopardised by 'terminating' funding, scientists say

Australia's ability to conduct strategic, in-depth, and long-term research in Antarctica is being compromised by "terminating" funding models for key programs, scientists warn.

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"The rocks that the glacier sits on impact the way it behaves, the heat that’s coming through the crust impacts the way that glacier behaves." WATCH: Professor Jo Whittaker (IMAS) and Dr Karin Orth (UTAS) on what the Denman region's ancient rocks can tell us ⬇️ #DMV www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4Q...

Revealed in the Rocks: the Heat Below

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The best part about our icy research is sharing it! Our calls with schools were certainly a highlight of the Denman Marine Voyage! 🧊🧪⚒️🪨🚢

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From East Antarctica to the world: @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social-funded outreach program goes global! Celebrating the power of connection through science on the Denman Marine Voyage 🌏 tinyurl.com/4bw335z3 📸 Antarctic & ice by Pete Harmsen for AAD, outreach by Katharina Hochmuth ACEAS

Very proud of my #IODP shipmates for spearheading this amazing paper on our new data from #Exp395. We are looking at the onset of deepwater formation in the North Atlantic and its relation to Greenland‘s ice sheet. ⚒️🧪⛰️🪨🚢🧊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago - Nature Communications

This study examines the history of North Atlantic deep-water masses, as recorded in marine sediments. Major lithological changes and increased rate of deposition reveal that stronger deep-ocean circul...

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Ancient ocean sediments link changes in currents to cooling of Northern Hemisphere 3.6 million years ago @natcomms.nature.com paper contribution from @imas-utas.bsky.social @hochmuth.bsky.social (physical parameters of sediments), part of an international research team ⬇️ www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

From East Antarctica to the world: @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social outreach program goes global Celebrating the power of connection through science on the Denman Marine Voyage 🌏 #DMV AAD | @antarctic.bsky.social | @arcsaef.bsky.social antarctic.org.au/from-east-an...

From East Antarctica to the world: outreach program goes global - ACEAS

From East Antarctica to the world: outreach program goes global A young, talented and diverse group of Antarctic researchers working in the field alongside some of the sector’s research veterans was a...

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New study of an ancient collision zone reveals origins of enormous mountain range, hidden beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet and central to Earth's tectonic history ♨️ - from @jaxhalpin.bsky.social and Nathan Daczko @imas-utas.bsky.social | Macquarie Uni theconversation.com/antarctica-h...

Antarctica has a huge, completely hidden mountain range. New data reveals its birth over 500 million years ago

The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.

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As the #DMV nears its end, @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social Science Lead Prof. Delphine Lannuzel explains why this scientific collaboration in the field is "super important." Voyage partners: @antarctic.bsky.social | @arcsaef.bsky.social | AAD @utas.edu.au | ANU | UNSW www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-6W...

The Denman Marine Voyage is a scientific collaboration

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Finishing the #Denman Marine Voyage with more outreach I invited students from my old high school in Northern Germany to come on a virtual tour of RSV Nuyina. Through the @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social school outreach program, 96 year 11 students learned about the science we do on DMV: 🌊🧊🇦🇶🧪🦭🌡️🐙☁️

🐚 AAPP PhD student @utas.edu.au Nia Riengchan studies how acidification of the Southern Ocean affects the shell-building of small planktonic snails called 'sea butterflies'. Now, for the first time, she's able to watch their babies develop. 🌊 Full #DMV video at youtu.be/1fTlpTQTOOc 🎞️ P Harmsen/AAD

As the #DMV reaches its final days in #Antarctica, the last rock dredges are underway. This one retrieved "just three rocks, but all the same so that is very good!" - @hochmuth.bsky.social, pictured with Jo Whittaker. Follow our research teams on our #DMV #blog ⬇️ antarctic.org.au/dmv#dmvblog

The major role of phytoplankton in reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is well established, yet the factors controlling phytoplankton growth are still not fully understood. The #DMV is a great opportunity to learn more, write Pauline Latour and team ⬇️ #blog antarctic.org.au/tiny-but-mig...

Tiny but mighty: microscopic algae to the rescue - ACEAS

Tiny but mighty: microscopic algae to the rescue By Pauline Latour, Matthew Corkill, Katie Nawrath, Talitha Nelson, Jakob Weis and Delphine Lannuzel Aboard RSV Nuyina, we’ve travelled through the icy ...

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Being able to monitor the overflow of #Antarctic dense waters from the continental shelf to deeper open waters is critically important, but has long been a major challenge for scientists. New research from @matthisauger.bsky.social could be a game-changer ⬇️ antarctic.org.au/satellite-ob...

Satellite observing breakthrough for monitoring the movement of Antarctic dense water - ACEAS

Satellite observing breakthrough for monitoring the movement of Antarctic dense water Ocean modelling researchers have discovered a reliable and long-term new method to capture the formation and expor...

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Yesterday was our last day in the sea ice. I was really lucky to have experienced this amazing landscape with its adorable wildlife in the last weeks. We had a very successful science program in areas of East Antarctica never studied before 🌊 🧪 Goodbye Antarctica 👋🇦🇶🐧 #DMV

The #DMV has transited east and west of the Denman Glacier and the Shackleton Ice Shelf, and one side is markedly more biologically productive than the other. How to find out why? Here's Delphine Lannuzel and Pauline Latour, with @antarctic.bsky.social ⬇️ aappartnership.org.au/all-part-of-...

All part of the process: biology meets chemistry off an ice shelf - AAPP

Revealing the drivers of phytoplankton growth, their role in carbon cycling, and dynamics between ocean, seafloor and ice shelves

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From East #Antarctica, to the world! 🌏 #DMV scientists share the wonder and celebrate connection through our school outreach program - with Kinderhaus childcare in Munich, Weston High School in Massachusetts and Mount Nelson PS in Hobart. @antarctic.bsky.social | @arcsaef.bsky.social | AAD

Sediment coring: examining a rich and ancient 'layer cake' of #Antarctic climate change New records from the sea floor near the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf offer crucial insights dating back thousands of years, writes Dr Taryn Noble ⬇️ #DMV @utas.edu.au antarctic.org.au/sediment-cor...

Sediment coring: examining an ancient 'layer cake' - ACEAS

Sediment coring: examining an ancient ‘layer cake’ By Dr Taryn Noble Deep-sea sediment cores have been collected during the Denman Marine Voyage, a first for the RSV Nuyina. These sediments contain a ...

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Yesterday, the weather cleared, paving the way for these stunning images from the air 🙌 📷: Pete Harmsen / AAD