| March 2024 | News from the Australian Antarctic Program
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Engineering Services Supervisor, Martin Kucera, took this photo of RSV Nuyina during a visit to Davis in March, on its way to resupply Mawson research station. |
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Avian influenza in Antarctica | Monitoring bird and seal colonies in Antarctica has taken on a new urgency with the detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza on the continent for the first time. | |
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Nuyina joins Southern Ocean plankton survey | RSV Nuyina has made its first contribution to a decades-long, multinational science program, surveying the tiny marine plants and animals of the Southern Ocean using a Continuous Plankton Recorder. | |
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Antarctic sea ice in crisis | For the third year in a row Antarctic sea-ice extent has dropped below the summer average of 2-4 million sq km. Could we be seeing a new era of diminished sea-ice cover, and what does it mean for global climate, Antarctic ecosystems and humans? | |
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Denman Glacier campaign wraps up | The Denman Terrestrial Campaign, at a remote field site in East Antarctica, is being described as a landmark project, providing insights into ice-shelf behaviour for decades to come. We spoke to a few of the people who made it happen. | |
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