| September 2024 | News from the Australian Antarctic Program
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Spring has sprung in Antarctica and the Auster emperor penguin colony, near Mawson, is welcoming some new members. Mawson research station Technical Officer, Sophie Counsell, was lucky enough to meet them. |
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Antarctic research supports astronaut health | Astronauts and Australian Antarctic expeditioners are working together to advance human health in space, and on Earth. | |
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Monitoring biodiversity | One of a planned 20-strong network of Antarctic observing towers is being built to monitor the “old growth forests” of Antarctica – centuries-old moss beds – and other biodiversity, near Casey research station. | |
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Fuel spill clean-up targets for sub-Antarctica | Australian scientists have developed the first environmental standards for fuel contamination in soils, for sub-Antarctic environments, to help safeguard plants, invertebrates, microbes and soil function. | |
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea-level rise | Over the next decades to centuries, will melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet – Earth’s largest ice mass – cause global sea level to rise by five metres, two metres or less? | |
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Iridescent clouds appear over Mawson | Antarctic expeditioners at Mawson research station had front row seats to a rare atmospheric phenomenon in July – the formation of spectacular polar stratospheric clouds. | |
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Nuclear monitoring facilities upgraded | Macquarie Island has upgraded its radionuclide monitoring station for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation. | |
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