The Antarctic Science Foundation brings together all people who believe in the value and potential of Antarctica to provide the answers we need to sustain our way of life on this planet.

Amundsen Sea detrital zircon U-Pb data support a high-relief, drainage-dissected West Antarctic topography in the Eocene.

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.

Overflow of Dense Shelf Water flowing into the abyssal ocean in the Ross Sea (Credit: COSIMA community www.cosima.org.au and NCI)

The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.

The Argo float disappeared under the ice and survived to send back the first-ever ocean transect beneath an East Antarctic ice shelf.

A mission to reach the ocean under the Shackleton Ice Shelf in East Antarctica

An amazing story of the little float that could – and what it means for global sea level rise

YouTube video by ACEAS