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PhD Opportunities at AAPP
The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership is now offering exciting PhD research projects, based at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.
Read More Krill research voyage ends in success
Media Release: The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) has welcomed the successful completion of a major krill research voyage into the Southern Ocean.
Read More Why we study the ocean depths
Why do oceanographers send scientific instruments thousands of metres below the ocean surface?
Read More Dreams come true!
Our researchers on board TEMPO sprang into action, when an unusually long and thick krill swarm appeared on the echogram.
Read More Meet the Predator Observers
The Predator Observer team has recorded 445 sightings of marine mammals.
Read More ABC Radio interviews Dr Rob King
'The entire vessel is on a port list, because we're being hit by a 40 knot wind that's screaming down off Antarctica… it's pretty spectacular!'
Read More Welcome Aboard TEMPO: Voyage Blog
The Southern Ocean Large Areal Carbon Export voyage is now underway, aboard Australia's RV Investigator.
Read More Eye-to-eye with a krill swarm
For decades scientists have wondered how the Antarctic krill population is distributed under the shield of Antarctic winter sea ice and the development of the KOMBI provides an opportunity to gain valuable clues at a time when humans cannot readily access this area.
Read More KOMBIs away!
For decades scientists have wondered how the Antarctic krill population is distributed under the shield of Antarctic winter sea ice and the development of the KOMBI provides an opportunity to gain valuable clues at a time when humans cannot readily access this area.
Read More TEMPO in transit
All the years of preparation to make this voyage a reality are now bearing fruit - or in this case krill.
Read More Supercomputers simulate Antarctic ice shelf melting
High-powered physics and supercomputers are helping a team of Australian-based scientists explore the mysterious boundary between Antarctic ice and the Southern Ocean.
Read More Getting the measure of krill
Media Release: Australian Antarctic Program scientists will use a range of novel technologies to measure krill, during a ground-breaking voyage to the Southern Ocean that departs tomorrow.
Read More Welcome Aboard SOLACE: Voyage Blog
The Southern Ocean Large Areal Carbon Export voyage is now underway, aboard Australia's RV Investigator.
Read More Robot fleet dives for climate answers in ‘marine snow’
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.
Read More Recent climate extremes have driven unprecedented changes in the deep ocean
New measurements reveal a surprising increase in the amount of dense water sinking near Antarctica, following 50 years of decline.
Read More New Ice Database Fills an Important Piece of Global Climate Puzzle
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.
Read More Going with the Wind – Our Changing Southern Ocean: Dr Edward Doddridge
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
Read More The Role and Response of the Southern Ocean in a Warming World: Prof. Stephen Rintoul
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.
Read More Antarctic ice cores are reshaping Australia’s climate assumptions
From Antarctic ice, a new understanding of drought & flood risk in Australia
Read More The powerful but puzzling role of Southern Ocean clouds
Atmospheric research by the AAPP is helping to address urgent questions about the role of Southern Ocean clouds in the Earth’s changing climate.
Read More PhD Opportunities at AAPP
The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership is now offering exciting PhD research projects, based at the University of Tasmania in Hobart.
Read More Krill research voyage ends in success
Media Release: The Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP) has welcomed the successful completion of a major krill research voyage into the Southern Ocean.
Read More Why we study the ocean depths
Why do oceanographers send scientific instruments thousands of metres below the ocean surface?
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