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Non-profit organisation Antarctica offers the answers. Let's ask the questions together. Committed to scientific research and conservation🐧❄️ antarcticsciencefoundation.org

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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Scientific research relies on funding. Yet a great deal of early career research into Antarctica and the Southern Ocean will struggle to secure grants.
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Antarctic research relies on funding, yet a great deal of early career research struggles to secure grants. With your support, the vast, fragile frontier we are fighting to understand can be protected. To make a tax-deductible EOFY donation head to www.asf.aq
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Antarctic research relies on funding, yet a great deal of early career research struggles to secure grants. With your support, the vast, fragile frontier we are fighting to understand can be protected. To make a tax-deductible EOFY donation head to www.asf.aq
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🚨 The Antarctic Fur Seal is now Endangered. The Southern Elephant Seal is now Vulnerable. Climate change & emerging disease threats are reshaping Antarctic ecosystems. 💙 Please consider an EOFY donation to the Antarctic Science Foundation before 30 June. #Antarctica #Conservation #ClimateChange
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
❄️ Applications are open for ASF Small Grants for Early Career Researchers. Up to $5,000 AUD available for: • Antarctic conference travel • Research presentations • Fieldwork travel • Research technology/equipment 📅 Closes 07 July 2026 📧 info@asf.aq 🔗 antarcticsciencefoundation.org/blog/asfsmal...
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Today is #WorldPenguinDay — but the news for Emperor Penguins is concerning. They are now Endangered. Climate change-driven sea-ice loss is accelerating, and populations have fallen by ~10% in under a decade. ASF funds research to track these changes and inform global decisions. Donate at www.asf.aq
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ode to Antarctica — remembering Professor Emma Johnston To begin 2026, the Antarctic Science Foundation is sharing Ode to Antarctica, a powerful reflection by our Founding Board Member Professor Emma Johnston, developed from a paper with Dr Anthony Press.
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Antarctic Science Foundation @asfofficial.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
As the year comes to a close we’d like to thank our incredible supporters, researchers, and partners for helping to advance crucial Antarctic science. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and we look forward to continuing our work in the year ahead!🐧❄️🎁
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Christine Siddoway @iphigenesdream.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
#Subglacial sediment : key to reconstruction of #Cenozoic topography and #paleoenvironment 🇦🇶
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Reconstructing Eocene Antarctic river drainage from provenance analysis of Amundsen Sea embayment sediments
Amundsen Sea detrital zircon U-Pb data support a high-relief, drainage-dissected West Antarctic topography in the Eocene.
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SWAIS2C @swais2c.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The first flight to our deep-field scientific drilling site at Crary Ice Rise has departed Ross Island. The approximately 700km journey over the Ross Ice Shelf took around 2 hrs on a Basler. On board were our hot water drillers, most of our AIDD team, and camp staff 👉https://bit.ly/3KxwJgC
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
11/ Their computer modelling projects other changes in AABW such as meltwater, salinity and temperature by 2050 – “essentially an intensification of the patterns of change observed since the 1990s”, the review says.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
10/ 𝗔𝗔𝗕𝗪 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴. Melting ice shelves make the waters fresher and more buoyant. Another study by some of the same authors simulated the future response of the ocean to meltwater input, projecting a slowdown of the Antarctic overturning by 40% by 2050. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-de...
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Antarctic deep ocean currents have slowed in the past three decades - AAPP
Researchers have found that the deep ocean circulation around parts of Antarctica has slowed by 30 per cent since the 1990s, reducing oxygen levels across the world’s deep seas.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
9/ 𝗔𝗔𝗕𝗪 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: since the mid-80s, at rates greater than 50 metres per decade in the deep Antarctic basins, with more rapid thinning observed closer to the sources of AABW. Contraction of AABW may lead to increased exposure of Antarctic ice shelves to warm water and further melt.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
7/ So any change in AABW properties has consequences for the strength of the deep overturning circulation – and climatic patterns. We know that rapid change is already underway in the abyssal ocean. Sea ice edge 📸 Todor Iolovski/AAD
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
8/ 𝗔𝗔𝗕𝗪 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴. Since the mid-80s, ocean heat content below 4,000m has increased at a rate of about 13 trillion watts – about equal to the global energy consumption rate by humans each year.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
6/ From these regions, AABW moves into the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans, driving many of the world's significant currents. This shows the fraction of water on the seafloor that is composed of AABW (dark blue is more than 90%, depths shallower than 3,500m not shown).
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
5/ AABW only forms in four locations: Weddell Sea, Cape Darnley, Ross Sea and Adelie Land. ‘Sv’ is a Sverdrup, a measure of current flow rate (1 Sv = 1 million cubic metres per second). Any changes in these regions (like sea ice) may impact the 3-D structure of the global overturning circulation.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
4/ To form AABW, cascades of dense water spill from the continental shelf and sink to the deep ocean: seawater freezes to form sea ice ➡️ rejects brine ➡️ dense cold salty oxygen-rich water sinks ➡️ pumps oxygen into the deep sea ➡️ ‘ventilates’ abyss Watch ▶️ vimeo.com/830053753
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Overflow of Dense Shelf Water flowing into the abyssal ocean in the Ross Sea (Credit: COSIMA community www.cosima.org.au and NCI)
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
3/ How will this lifeline change on a warming planet? A new review in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com led by Steve Rintoul at CSIRO/AAPP examines the importance of AABW to ocean carbon and heat storage and oxygen supply to the deep sea – and the impacts of global heating. Review ▶️ rdcu.be/eTWCD
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
2/ Driving the pump is Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), cold dense water that sinks from the continental shelf to the deep (dark purple) and fills 36% of the global ocean volume. The sinking of AABW is balanced by a return flow of lighter warmer water (yellow). Pic: @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
1/ The overturning circulation is a network of ocean currents transporting heat, carbon, oxygen and nutrients around the world. At the heart of this circulatory system is the global pumphouse of #Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Animation: NASA-SVS
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Tony Press @anthonypress.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Announcing “Antarctica as a Model for Global Peace”. Chapter by Bruno Arpi & I: “The resilience of the Antarctic Treaty System in the face of a changing global order“. Great working with Agenda Antártica and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung on this chapter. www.kas.de/documents/d/...
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
💦 "In effect, the Southern Ocean may be “sweating” more in response to climate change." — @aunz.theconversation.com ▶️ theconversation.com/storms-in-th...
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Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.
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SWAIS2C @swais2c.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Here's something those travelling to Antarctica hope they won't need. If your flight 'boomerangs' and has to turn back around, you'll be reunited with your checked-in boomerang bag.We're sharing Antarctic terms and phrases so that you too can #TalklikeanAntarctican!
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Polar Observer @polarobs.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Adrift like Shackleton: Robot float survives #Antarctic ice. The Argo float disappeared under the ice and survived to send back the first-ever ocean transect beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf. www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...
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Adrift like Shackleton: Robot float survives Antarctic ice
The Argo float disappeared under the ice and survived to send back the first-ever ocean transect beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
7/ Hats off to authors Steve Rintoul, Esmee van Wijk, Laura Herraiz-Borreguero and Madelaine Rosevear from CSIRO, AAPP, @utas.edu.au and @imas-utas.bsky.social – with support from @imos-aus.bsky.social – and the intrepid #Argo floats. @euro-argo.eu @soccomproject.bsky.social @soosocean.bsky.social
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
6/ This work reveals the Shackleton ice shelf is, for now, not exposed to warm water capable of melting it from below. However the Denman Glacier is and therefore more vulnerable. Its ice volume holds a potential 1.5-metre contribution to global sea level rise.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
5/ That’s where floats can help, bumping their heads on the underside of ice shelves, measuring melt where it happens. Deploying an array of floats around Antarctica's continental shelf would reduce the large uncertainties in estimating future sea level rise. ▶️ theconversation.com/what-our-mis...
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
4/ But measuring inside ice shelf cavities is very difficult to do. Ice shelves can be hundreds of metres thick. While you can drill a hole through and lower your sensors, this is expensive and rarely done, so very few observations have been made. ▶️ aapp.shorthandstories.com/how-to-drill...
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How to drill an ice shelf — and why
A mission to reach the ocean under the Shackleton Ice Shelf in East Antarctica
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
3/ Ice shelves resist the flow of continental ice to the sea. If warm ocean waters weaken the ice shelves, more ice will reach the ocean and melt, causing sea level to rise. Ocean measurements are critical to determine how much and how fast. ▶️ aapp.shorthandstories.com/opening-the-...
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
2/ After eight months hidden away, profiling the ocean from the seafloor to the base of the ice every five days, the Argo float survived to deliver the first-ever oceanographic transect from beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf. ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/adrift-like-...
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Adrift like Shackleton: Robot float survives Antarctic ice - AAPP
An amazing story of the little float that could – and what it means for global sea level rise
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🌊 1/ A robotic float has measured temperature and salinity from parts of the Southern Ocean never sampled before — underneath massive floating Denman and Shackleton ice shelves in East #Antarctica. New in @science.org #ScienceAdvances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Our November newsletter just went out, featuring ... Report of SCAR at 44th CCAMLR Meetings ... INSTANT workshop at CliC OSC 2026 ... SCAR at #COP30 in Belém, Brazil ... and more! ▶️ Read: mailchi.mp/scar/novembe... ▶️ Subscribe: scar.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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SWAIS2C @swais2c.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The smiles say it all - they've finally made it to the ice! After an extended stay in Christchurch due to weather delays, followed by an 8hr boomerang back to Christchurch, the first of our science team have landed in Antarctica.
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
At @imas-utas.bsky.social @utas.edu.au, we're celebrating Antarctica Day 2025 with a symposium themed ‘Encountering Antarctica’. 🐧 www.utas.edu.au/about/events...
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Antarctica Day 2025: Encountering Antarctica
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Happy Antarctica Day! 💙 1 December is the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959. Australia was one of 12 original signatories to the Treaty, which established #Antarctica as a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science".
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SWAIS2C @swais2c.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Antarctica Day marks the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty, setting the foundation for international collaboration in Antarctic research. SWAIS2C brings together researchers from 10 countries, dedicated to understanding how Antarctica’s ice sheets will respond in our warming world.
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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🌍 Happy #AntarcticaDay! 🌍 To mark the occasion, we’re delighted to announce that the call for abstracts for the 12th SCAR Open Science Conference #SCAR2026 (8-19 August 2026 in Oslo, Norway) is now open. Submit your abstracts by 28 February 2026 scar2026.org/abstracts
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Christine Siddoway @iphigenesdream.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@antarctic.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🌏 Happy Antarctica Day! ❄️ Today we celebrate global cooperation in protecting and understanding one of Earth’s most unique and fragile environments. A huge thanks to all our researchers for driving this work forward every day. 🎥 Learn more in our new ACEAS video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGg3...
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Introduction to ACEAS
YouTube video by ACEAS
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Christine Siddoway @iphigenesdream.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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Mapping and Geographic Information Centre @magic.bas.ac.uk · 01/12/2025
Happy Antarctica Day! We’ve recently updated this map to show consultative and non-consultative signatories of the Antarctic Treaty, signed on this day in 1959. The Treaty designates Antarctica a continent for peace and science. December 1st raises awareness of this global agreement and its goals.
Map of the world showing countries symbolised as dark green if they are consultative parties to the Treaty, light green if they are non-consultative parties and white if they are not signatories.
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Hank Woolley @paleo-hank.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It’s Antarctica Day! Give it up for this articulated skeleton of Thrinaxodon, an early mammal relative from 250 million years ago, found in the Transantarctic Mountains 8 years ago. This continent has an amazing fossil heritage that we’re continuing to learn more about!
The fossilized spinal column of the early mammal relative Thrinaxodon embedded in exposed bedrock that outcrops in the icy landscape of the Central Transantarctic Mountains
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Million Year Ice Core Project @millionyearice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
MYIC drilling team landed at Dome C earlier today. We are one day behind schedule, which in the face of logistical and weather challenges of operating in Antarctica is a big WIN!! Two months ahead of us for deep drill set up and ice coring. Bring it on!!
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
10/ But we have choices. Under high emissions, a positive SAM continues to strengthen. Under low emissions pathways where net zero is achieved, modelling shows the SAM could stabilise by 2050 and begin returning to its historical range by 2100. (figure: @nature.com)
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
8/ The implications for sea-level rise are less clear. Ocean circulation changes could accelerate melt in the cavities underneath ice shelves that buttress the Antarctic ice sheet, while SAM-driven increased snowfall in some regions may offset ice mass loss. (photo: Pete Harmsen/AAD)
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
7/ A persistent positive SAM is expected to reduce the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb excess carbon dioxide, warming the climate. Stronger, southward-shifted winds create upwellings that release more carbon from the deep ocean into the atmosphere. (photo: Pete Harmsen/AAD)
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
👏 6/ Authors from @arcsaef.bsky.social, @monashuniversity.bsky.social, @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social, BoM, @imas-utas.bsky.social, @utas.edu.au, @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social, @ccrc.bsky.social, @unimelb.bsky.social, CSIRO
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
5/ New review out today in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com: “The SAM is now in its most positive mean state in over 1,000 years, and a year-round positive trend in the SAM is projected to continue throughout the twenty-first century in response to increasing greenhouse gases.” Read: rdcu.be/eSGwe
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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
4/ A positive SAM also changes the biogeochemical state of the Southern Ocean, affecting how carbon, heat and nutrients are transported and shaping the productivity of phytoplankton. (figure: Nature)
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