Robot gliders cruise the currents
Three underwater gliders are released into the world’s strongest water flow, the high-energy Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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The FOCUS 42.2 marine marathon
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!
The CTD: What goes down, must come up
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?
Meet Hydrochem: our floating lab
At the heart of this science ship is an advanced analytical lab for measuring the vital signs of the ocean
For the sheer excitement of being here
PhD student Andie Hay offers her thoughts about life on the high seas – and a poem
Living the oceanographic dream
PhD student Polina Sholeninova about her experience living and working at sea on the FOCUS voyage
From big things, little things grow
Why are we studying a patch of the Southern Ocean just 100km wide and 200km long so intensively?
How to build a tall mooring
Crew and scientists on CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator install an oceanographic ‘weather tower’ in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
We’re in the zone
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).
PhD Opportunities at AAPP
The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership is now offering exciting PhD research projects, based at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.