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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🌊 For an essential pre- #COP31 briefing on the risks of ignoring the potential sea-level rise risks from East #Antarctica's ice sheet to the Pacific and the world, check out this comprehensive presentation from @aussmc.bsky.social ▶️ www.scimex.org/newsfeed/new...

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NEWS BRIEFING: What we don't know might hurt us - Antarctica's unexplo

NEWS BRIEFING: What we don't know might hurt us - Antarctica's unexplored threat ***RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE*** A region of Antarctica with enough ice to raise sea levels by three to four m

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to our physical oceanographer Prof Nathan Bindoff @utas.edu.au on his election as one of 34 new Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌊 “For those of us living in low-lying islands, atolls, coastal communities and delta regions, sea level rise is not a future threat or mere speculation. It is our present reality.” — Tuvalu Prime Minister Feleti Teo ▶️ pmn.co.nz/read/environ...

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Antarctic 'blind spot' raises fresh sea-level concerns for Pacific

Scientists say a vast, little-studied ice basin could hold clues to how quickly sea levels could rise as the planet warms.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🌊 Antarctic winter sea ice at 3rd-lowest level on record. “How sensitive is the global climate system to this loss of sea ice? We're still working to put numbers on that. But the system is changing faster than we are understanding it.” — Will Hobbs @utas.edu.au ▶️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’

Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An enormous area of #Antarctic ice covering 1,400km by 400km, more than 4km thick in places, holds an estimated 3-4m of global sea-level rise, if melted. But for something so consequential for the natural world and human society, the Wilkes Subglacial Basin in #East Antarctica is largely unknown.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🌊 “The seven-metre craft, which looks like a large kayak in hi-vis orange, is expected to travel about 22,000km through inhospitable waters, propelled by powerful westerly winds and energy from the sun.” — @theguardian.com ▶️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Robust little’ vessel begins treacherous 22,000km journey around Antarctica in the name of climate science

Powered by sun and wind, the uncrewed vehicle will collect data to help Australian scientists better understand how oceans absorb emissions

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌊 We've released a #Saildrone into the wild! Seven metres long, the solar-powered autonomous uncrewed vessel will circumnavigate #Antarctica to collect data on carbon dioxide absorbed by the Southern Ocean – crucial for predicting climate change. SD1092 is the first of four over the next few years.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the first time, crucially important features of the #Antarctic coastal zone have been mapped in high resolution right around the continent, by training an artificial intelligence tool to accurately recognise grounded icebergs from satellite radar images. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/picket-fence...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🚨 PhD project in Hobart @utas.edu.au 🌊 Using Deep Argo floats, investigate variability and change in #Antarctic Bottom Water and the deep overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean 🎓 Scholarships available ✍️ Applications close 1 October ▶️ More info at www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

New research shows #Antarctic krill larvae can travel much farther across the Southern Ocean by hitching a ride with drifting sea ice than with ocean currents alone. ↔️ “Year to year, the same starting population of krill can experience very different transport pathways” — Aditya Sharma

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🌊 Australian scientists are part of a bold international plan to target the knowledge gaps that prevent reliable predictions about the contributions of #Antarctic ice loss to global sea-level rise. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/rings-around... 📸 F McCormack, @arcsaef.bsky.social

Totten Glacier Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, from an ICECAP flight measuring land beneath the ice (photo: Dr Felicity McCormack/Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🌊 6 plenaries, 7 keynotes, 22 parallel sessions, 123 presentations, 121 posters, 29 lightning talks: many thanks to the 400 delegates from Tasmania, Australia and beyond who made #AARC2026 @utas.edu.au such a resounding success! ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc... 📸 PW Allen, G Moss

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Australian #Antarctic Research Conference #AARC2026 is well under way with more than 400 people sharing posters, presentations, panels, and planning sessions — from humanities to glaciology, atmospheric science to technology, tourism to tipping points. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

More than 400 polar experts gather @utas.edu.au next week for the Australian Antarctic Research Conference. The event brings together our #Antarctic research community at a time of rapid and extreme climate-related changes on and around the icy continent. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-sc...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Rapid changes are reshaping #Antarctica, with consequences for our global #climate. This year's Philip Law Lecture 'Dispatches from the Far South' will be delivered by Dr Ed Doddridge @imas-utas.bsky.social, 6pm AEST on 20 August. Reserve your free seats now! ▶️ www.utas.edu.au/events/2026/...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🌊 In recent years #Antarctica has seen an explosion of climate-related change, with major implications for our planet. New extremes are emerging, including heatwaves, record-low sea ice and ice shelf collapses. These are the alarm bells from the south... ▶️ aapp.shorthandstories.com/alarm-bells-...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🌊 "A robot is cruising beneath #Antarctic sea ice. Another is bolted to the face of a collapsing Greenland glacier. A third is silently counting penguins on a remote, windswept beach. None of them has a human operator nearby." — @bas.ac.uk ▶️ www.bas.ac.uk/news/the-ris...

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The rise of the robots: how autonomous vehicles are transforming polar science - British Antarctic Survey

Underwater, on the surface and in the air, robots are gathering data about our frozen planet – changing what is possible for polar science.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Holocene (the past 12,000 years) has been a uniquely stable period for the climate, with global average temperatures at 14 degrees celsius, varying by only 0.5 degrees. Johan Rockström explains how today, human activity is the dominant force for change on Earth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rphp...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🌊 ANTARCTIC SCIENCE, AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE The exciting program for #AARC26 is out, with more than 300 people coming to our national conference in August. There are still places available if you'd like to attend. Registrations close 28 July. Program ▶️ leishman-aarc-2026.eventsairsite.com/program

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🌊 New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean – Antarctic Bottom Water, or AABW – is shrinking faster than scientists realised, with the rate of change accelerating over the past decade. This is important because we all depend on it. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-ch...

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Antarctic change drives slowdown of global ocean circulation - AAPP

Deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster with accelerated change

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1️⃣🌊 Using a high-resolution ocean model to simulate the currents around the Denman-Shackleton ice-shelf system, @yuhangocean.bsky.social and colleagues make an important shift in how we think about ocean-driven melting in East #Antarctica. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/melting-from...

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Melting from the top: ice shelf vulnerable to warm surface waters - AAPP

Modelling shows summer-warmed surface waters are the primary cause of melt in the Denman-Shackleton ice shelf system

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

CLIMATE CHANGE ATTRIBUTION: "the first study to directly attribute the changes of a major Antarctic outlet glacier to the activities of humans." More than 1/3 of ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is from Pine Island Glacier, one of the single biggest contributors to global sea level rise.

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🦐 There are only two aquaria in the world that breed #Antarctic krill – the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart and the Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium in Japan. Take a look 👀 youtu.be/K6b1fT3Z7WU

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Antarctic krill in Japan

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🎢 Oceanographers have mapped currents with dramatic ups-and-downs like a rollercoaster, in a giant whirlpool spinning off the polar front in the Southern Ocean. These cyclonic eddies are important for the transport of heat, carbon, nutrients and oxygen. 🌊 aappartnership.org.au/rollercoaste...

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‘Rollercoaster’ currents in Southern Ocean mapped by satellite and robot gliders - AAPP

Intense vertical currents in cyclonic eddy stronger than previously thought

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🌋 FIRE AND ICE: 'Cryptotephra’ are microscopic glass shards and ash from volcanic eruptions. A new study matches cryptotephra in an ice core from East #Antarctica with the chemical fingerprints of the 1985 Mt Erebus eruptions and Chile's Cerro Hudson in 1991. 🧊 aappartnership.org.au/needle-in-a-...

Craters of Mt Erebus volcano, December 2000 (photo: John Landis/NSF)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In 1898, a ship was trapped for more than a year in two-metre-thick sea ice in the frozen Bellingshausen Sea in western #Antarctica. Now, as in recent years, there’s hardly any sea ice there at all. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HKar...

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Trapped for a year in Antarctic sea ice – then, and now?

YouTube video by Australian Antarctic Program Partnership

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Graham Readfearn @readfearn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is the image I sent to a few scientists this week, with some questions. The area between the orange line and the coast should be covered in sea ice. It is about the size of France. Here’s the story that come from the image. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🌊 "Beautiful interplay": A new study led by Aust scientists identifies the role of wave-driven processes in why and how Antarctic sea ice can retreat so rapidly each summer, and what they mean for #climate models ▶️ www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2026/fr... 🧊 published today in @egu.eu The #Cryosphere

Photographic examples of wave flooding, wave pulverisation and wave greening. OWF = wave-overwashed floe; SCFYI = snow-covered first-year ice; WS = wave slush; WBP = wave-buffeting pond; WDP = wave-deformation pond; G = greening; BI = brash ice. (from Massom et al. 2026)

The growth of sea-ice algae darkens the ice and reduces its ability to reflect sunlight, amplifying sea-ice melting in summer. (Photo: Rob Massom)

Seawater ponding on ice floes, and snow loss, reduces the ability of the ice to reflect sunlight, leading to surface melting in summer. (Photo: Rob Massom)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🌊 ANTARCTIC SCIENCE, AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE 🗣️ Want to present a talk or a poster at the Australian Antarctic Research Conference @utas.edu.au, 25-28 August 2026 in Hobart? 🚨 Final call for #AARC26 abstracts, closing Wednesday 10 June (hard deadline) ▶️ leishman-aarc-2026.eventsair.site/call-for-abs...

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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) @soosocean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📣 Call for nominations: WSDML RWG Leadership Team Join a collaborative international team helping coordinate observations & research in the Weddell Sea & Dronning Maud Land region Build connections, foster collaboration & help guide regional priorities 🗓️ DL: 23 June 👉 soos.aq/opportunitie...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🌊 Antarctica and the sea ice of the Southern Ocean is a beating heart at the centre of our global #climate system. Stay in touch with #Antarctic #science via our quarterly newsletter 'Southern Signals'. Please sign up at aappartnership.org.au/contact-us/ to receive yours by email. 🌏 Pat Wongpan

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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) @soosocean.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📣𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐒 𝐒𝐒𝐂! Nominate yourself or someone you know for the SOOS Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). Get involved—join a welcoming, supportive & engaged team helping shape the future of Southern Ocean observing. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 June 👉 soos.aq/opportunities

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

❄️ Ever wondered how to become an ice-core technician? Let Chelsea Long tell you her way — and how it led to a PhD project @utas.edu.au

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How I became an ice core technician

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🛰️ Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an under-studied and crucial region of the #Antarctic sea-ice system for the first time. 🌊 aappartnership.org.au/miz-ing-in-a...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Icon on ice: Moves to enhance protection of emperor penguins blocked at annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations (@news.abc.net.au @southernsky.bsky.social) ▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... Emperors at Auster colony 📸 Jan Wallace

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🌊 We’re hiring – Antarctic Project Officer (Hobart) Want to support world-leading #Antarctic science and help shape research with impact? AAPP and @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social are looking for an Antarctic Project Officer based at @utas.edu.au Apply by 8 June ▶️ careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50322...

Scientists participating in the Denman Marine Voyage on RSV Nuyina surrounded by sea ice (photo: Pete Harmsen/AAD)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"Climate risk information is only as reliable as the modelling infrastructure that underpins it. Neglecting Australian #climate modelling capability would be like continuing to use GPS after deciding to stop maintaining the satellites that make it work." 📝 www.scimex.org/newsfeed/ope...

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Open letter to Federal Ministers about impacts of CSIRO job cuts

Open letter to Federal Ministers about impacts of CSIRO job cuts Proposed CSIRO job cuts threaten to cripple Australia’s climate modelling capability The Hon. Chris Bowen MP, Mi

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🚨 PhD project on ice shelves @utas.edu.au in Hobart! 🌊 Integrate observations and modelling of Antarctic ice shelf basal melting and sub-shelf ocean circulation 🍎 AAPP top-up scholarship and travel available ▶️ www.utas.edu.au/research/deg... 📆 Closing date for applications 1 June 2026

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🌊 ANTARCTIC SCIENCE, AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE 🗣️ Want to present a talk or a poster at the second Australian Antarctic Research Conference @utas.edu.au, 25-28 August 2026 in Hobart? 📣 Call for #AARC26 abstracts is open now, until 8 June ▶️ leishman-aarc-2026.eventsair.site/call-for-abs...

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🚨 PhD project on sea ice @utas.edu.au in Hobart! 🛰️ Use machine learning techniques for improved detection of Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) width from multi-sensor remote sensing data ▶️ www.utas.edu.au/research/deg... 📆 Closing date for applications 1 June 2026

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🌊 Bring the Southern Ocean community to you – 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗢𝗢𝗦 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳! @soosocean.bsky.social 📣 Call for bids to host this international Southern Ocean meeting (400–500 participants) bringing together science, policy and industry. 📅 Bids are due 31 July 🔗 soos.aq/soos-symposium-2027

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