News archive
16 December 2010
A Melbourne installation artist and a Canberra musician have been announced as the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellows for 2010–2011 season.
9 December 2010
Follow in the footsteps of great Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson 100 years after he led the first Australian Antarctic team.
5 December 2010
Micro-organisms will assist a team of scientists to clean up contaminated sites in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island this year.
1 December 2010
Applications have been called for the Australian Government’s 2011 Indo-Pacific Cetacean Research and Conservation Fund.
19 November 2010
The Antarctic Division’s summer program will remain on track with the charter of a ski-equipped Twin Otter aircraft.
18 November 2010
A team of Antarctic climate scientists will take their research direct to the public in Launceston this week in an attempt to correct misinformation and present the facts of climate change.
17 November 2010
The Australian Antarctic Division has air-dropped tools and equipment to the crew of a damaged plane in Antarctica.
16 November 2010
A plane used by the Australian Antarctic Program has been damaged during landing near Australia’s Casey station.
21 October 2010
A 20 year study of the Southern Ocean has found significant changes in the composition, distribution and diversity of plankton and krill sampled by Australian Antarctic Division scientists.
21 October 2010
Australian Antarctic Division scientists will add a new dimension to Antarctic seabird research this summer, deploying trackers on Antarctic snow petrels.
15 October 2010
Pedal power will be the preferred mode of transport at Australia’s Casey and Davis stations this summer.
14 October 2010
Australian scientists are preparing to use the data from a new $22m array of high-tech equipment to help them probe deeper into the nation’s surrounding oceans.
13 October 2010
New research on the impact of ocean acidification on Antarctic krill has found increased levels of carbon dioxide kill their embryos.
13 October 2010
Climate change and its impacts on everything from snails to whales, people, ecosystems and rainfall, is up for discussion at the Australia – New Zealand Climate Forum 2010 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart this week.
7 October 2010
Australian Antarctic Division Sea Bird Ecologist Dr Barbara Wienecke is working with Melbourne Aquarium’s staff and colony of Gentoo penguins, to trial a data-logging leg band which will help the long-term monitoring of their Adelie cousins in Antarctica.
7 October 2010
Australia's new Station Leaders are preparing to go south to take up their positions at Mawson, Davis and Casey stations, and on Macquarie Island.
5 October 2010
The results of a decade-long study into the biodiversity of the world’s oceans, the Census of Marine Life (CoML), are being released in London this week.
30 September 2010
A new high-tech remote controlled helicopter, the ‘OktoKopter’, will map fragile coastal moss beds in Antarctica this summer.
27 September 2010
When it comes to reproduction, Antarctic krill like the lights off.
27 September 2010
Australia's research into the Antarctic atmosphere will reach greater heights this summer thanks to a new high-powered German laser which will be installed at Australia's Davis station.
24 September 2010
Miniature remote controlled aircraft are being trialled at Shark Bay in Western Australia for use in marine mammal surveys.
15 September 2010
Scientific discoveries, from the heroic to the modern era of Australian Antarctic science, will feature at an Antarctic science symposium at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre today.
15 September 2010
Each year the Australian Antarctic Division undertakes the immense task of planning, organising and coordinating the Antarctic summer season. Watch a video on the challenges of supporting Australian activity in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
12 August 2010
Six glaciers in the Australian Antarctic Territory have been officially named in honour of historically significant figures and groups who have played an important role in the Antarctic region or Australian history.
6 August 2010
The Australian Marine Mammals Centre, at the Australian Antarctic Division, has announced the recipients of more than $1.2 million dollars of grants for 2010.
14 July 2010
Environment Protection Minister, Peter Garrett, is calling for scientists with a passion for Antarctica to apply for a new $250,000 RJL Hawke Post Doctoral Fellowship.
7 July 2010
The last surviving member of the 1929-31 British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), Dr Alf Howard AM, has died aged 104 years old.
23 June 2010
Australian Minister for Environment Protection Peter Garrett and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully today released the preliminary results from a six week joint Australian-New Zealand Antarctic Whale Expedition to the Southern Ocean earlier this year.
16 June 2010
Australian Antarctic Division scientists, Dr Steve Nicol and Dr Nick Gales, have been awarded one of only 100 Super Science Fellowships offered by the Australian Research Council, to employ two young post-doctoral researchers to study ecosystem linkages in the Southern Ocean.
10 June 2010
Young sea ice scientist, Natalia Galin, is one of 16 winners of this year's Fresh Science talent search – a national competition that identifies new and interesting research undertaken by early-career researchers.
5 June 2010
Environment Protection Minister, Peter Garrett, today launched the third National Whale Day for the International Fund for Animal Welfare at the La Perouse Museum in Sydney.
26 May 2010
Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett and Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr today congratulated Australian researchers on the completion of the largest-ever aerial survey of whales off the Australian Antarctic coastline.
20 May 2010
Environment Protection Minister, Peter Garrett, today launched the book 'Health of Antarctic Wildlife: A challenge for Science and Policy' at Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney.
11 May 2010
The highly successful Australia-Antarctica Airlink will continue thanks to a $11.7 million commitment in the 2010–2011 Budget.
7 May 2010
In May 1985, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) described their observations of large losses of ozone over Antarctica in the prestigious journal, Nature.
3 May 2010
An Australian delegation is in Uruguay for the next two weeks for the 33rd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) and the 13th meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection.
30 April 2010
The gigantic iceberg which calved from the Mertz Glacier in mid-February is altering natural processes in the surrounding ocean as it moves westward away from the glacier.
23 April 2010
Australia's Casey station has experienced its biggest daily snowfall total since records began in 1969.
22 April 2010
The important role whale poo plays in the productivity of the Southern Ocean has been revealed in a new study.
16 April 2010
Australia has adopted new laws to improve the conservation of Antarctic animals and plants.
16 March 2010
The Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts and the Minister for Foreign Affairs today announced that Hobart will host the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in 2012.
15 March 2010
The world's largest, non-lethal whale research expedition has returned from Antarctic waters with a range of new information that will help inform future marine mammal conservation.
4 March 2010
Seabird ecologist, Dr Ben Sullivan, has won a $150 000 PEW Fellowship in Marine Conservation to continue his work on seabird bycatch mitigation and reduction, and safer fishing practices, in pelagic longline and trawl fisheries.
3 March 2010
After a successful six weeks in the Southern Ocean, the Australian led Antarctic whale expedition is heading home.
1 March 2010
The Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, today paid tribute to Dr Phillip Law whose foresight and drive forged the beginnings of Australia's very successful Antarctic program and who consolidated Australia's Antarctic interests.
26 February 2010
A massive iceberg, measuring 78 kilometres long and 39 kilometres wide, has calved from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
26 February 2010
The joint Australian-New Zealand Antarctic Whale Expedition is on track collecting information on several whale species in the Southern Ocean.
8 February 2010
An Antarctic ice core has revealed a link between drought conditions in south-west Western Australia and increased snowfall in Antarctica.
2 February 2010
The largest collaborative whale research voyage ever undertaken is on its way to Antarctica.
29 January 2010
Australian Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, and New Zealand Minister for Research Science and Technology, Wayne Mapp, launched the first Antarctic whale research expedition as part of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership in Wellington today.
20 January 2010
The coolest job in the world is up for grabs – and it could be yours.
18 January 2010
A Melbourne sound artist and an Adelaide choreographer and performer have been announced as the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellows for 2010.
