| August 2025 | News from the Australian Antarctic Program
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Photographer Pete Harmsen captured this image of emperor penguins on an ice floe during a scientific expedition to the Denman Glacier earlier this year. |
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New Antarctic science Chief | The Australian Antarctic Program's new Chief Scientist, Professor Nerilie Abram, has travelled from the tropics to both poles, exploring Earth’s climate history through corals and ice cores. | |
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Heading to Heard Island | The Australian Antarctic Division will lead expeditioners and scientists working with the Australian Antarctic Program on two voyages to Heard Island and McDonald Islands this year. | |
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Understanding sea-ice decline | Is a ‘regime shift’ to a new state of diminished Antarctic sea-ice coverage underway? If so, it will have impacts across global climate, ecological and societal systems. | |
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Davis station upgrades | An infrastructure renewal program is underway to make Davis research station a safer, more comfortable and more energy efficient place to live and work, beginning with an upgrade of water and power supplies. | |
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Antarctic Medal winners | The prestigious Australian Antarctic Medal has been awarded to a geoscientist and medical practitioner in recognition of their outstanding service to the Australian Antarctic Program. | |
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Emperor penguin census | A lucky group of Mawson expeditioners visited the Taylor Glacier emperor penguin colony in July, to collect photos for the annual population census. | |
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