Robot gliders cruise the currents
Three underwater gliders are released into the world’s strongest water flow, the high-energy Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Three underwater gliders are released into the world’s strongest water flow, the high-energy Antarctic Circumpolar Current
What to do when a mad-keen trail-runner is on a research ship for 38 days? Run a marathon on a treadmill, of course!
One item in our oceanographic toolkit gets more of a workout than others. Which is it and what does it tell us about the deep ocean?
At the heart of this science ship is an advanced analytical lab for measuring the vital signs of the ocean
PhD student Andie Hay offers her thoughts about life on the high seas – and a poem
PhD student Polina Sholeninova about her experience living and working at sea on the FOCUS voyage
Why are we studying a patch of the Southern Ocean just 100km wide and 200km long so intensively?
Crew and scientists on CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator install an oceanographic ‘weather tower’ in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
The FOCUS voyage has now reached our survey area about 850 nautical miles south of Hobart (or 200nm west of Macquarie Island, halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica).
The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership is now offering exciting PhD research projects, based at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.