The centrepiece of the SOLACE voyage – a suite of seven repeat 3.5 day sampling cycles – commenced on 9 December with the deployment of an upper ocean mooring.
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Transporting carbon: Why micronekton are important Bree WoodsPhD Student The deep ocean is the largest habitat on earth and despite harsh environmental conditions, is full of life. The animals that live here are adapted to high pressure, low temperatures, and little-to-no sunlight. Such animals, which are collectively named micronekton, include fishes, squids and hard-bodied organisms
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‘It’s exciting to finally get going’: ABC interview with Philip Boyd Chief Scientist on board the SOLACE voyage, Professor Philip Boyd, speaks with Leon Compton from ABC Radio’s Statewide Mornings program.
‘It’s exciting to finally get going’: ABC interview with Philip Boyd Read More »
A fleet of new-generation, deep-diving ocean robots will be deployed in the Southern Ocean, in a major study of how marine life acts as a handbrake on global warming.
Robot fleet dives for climate answers in ‘marine snow’ Read More »
Welcome aboard SOLACE The Southern Ocean Large Areal Carbon Export (SOLACE) voyage has the following objectives. Improve water column measurement of the downward export flux of carbon of the biological pump using an integrated suite of new technological advances – from particle decomposition to mesopelagic vertical migrations. Integrate these improved estimates of the functioning of
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New measurements reveal a surprising increase in the amount of dense water sinking near Antarctica, following 50 years of decline.
Recent climate extremes have driven unprecedented changes in the deep ocean Read More »
Researchers from the AAPP have completed another important piece of the Antarctic climate jigsaw puzzle, with the creation of the first detailed database of changes in land-fast sea ice.
New Ice Database Fills an Important Piece of Global Climate Puzzle Read More »
Dr Edward Doddridge is an oceanographer and Theme Leader with AAPP’s Nature and Impacts of Southern Ocean Change research theme. Dr Doddridge was recently invited to present at the Royal Society of Tasmania
Going with the Wind – Our Changing Southern Ocean: Dr Edward Doddridge Read More »
AAPP Theme Leader Prof. Stephen Rintoul was recently invited to present at the SCAR 2020 Mini Symposium entitled Antarctica in a Warming World; Regional Changes, Global Consequences and Future Commitments.
The Role and Response of the Southern Ocean in a Warming World: Prof. Stephen Rintoul Read More »
From Antarctic ice, a new understanding of drought & flood risk in Australia
Antarctic ice cores are reshaping Australia’s climate assumptions Read More »