Australian Antarctic Magazine - Issue 12: 2007
The Australian Antarctic Magazine seeks to inform the Australian and international Antarctic community about the activities of the Australian Antarctic program. Opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily represent the position of the Australian Government.
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Contents
International Polar Year
Science and operations
- Long-hidden seabed life uncovered
- Understanding the role of the Southern Ocean in climate
- Getting the measure of sea ice
- Taking the Antarctic Arctic Polar Pulse
- Aliens in Antarctica
- Antarctic ozone: New insights from the International Polar Year
- International Antarctic Institute
- Surfing the building technology wave
- Davis station turns 50
- Aurora Australis continues her Antarctic service
- From Hobart to Antarctica and back again
- Solar linkages to atmospheric processes
- Aviation in Antarctica reaches new heights
- Totally Wild in Antarctica
- Viewing the poles with PolarView
In brief
- New Minister, new name
- Australia Day Awards
- Antarctica features in Year Book Australia
- Budget update
- Correction
- Polar Series coin
- Antarctica under threat
- IGY films online
- National Oceans Office moves in
- Wollemi planted for World Environment Day
Voyage to the sub-antarctic
- Voyage to the sub-antarctic
- Looking to the past for changes in the present
- Minicosms help build a bigger picture of ocean acidification
- Iron and the marine ecosystem
- Shedding light on carbon sinks
Feature
Marine mammal science
- Marine mammal science
- Marine mammal research comes of age
- Feeding habits provide clues to sea lion threats
- Tracking giants of the deep
Fauna
- Fauna flourish under honeycomb ice
- Thirty metres under the sea ice
- Good news for Southern Ocean seabirds