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
Welcome aboard SOLACE! Read More »
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 »
Atmospheric research by the AAPP is helping to address urgent questions about the role of Southern Ocean clouds in the Earth’s changing climate.
The powerful but puzzling role of Southern Ocean clouds Read More »