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The high costs associated with collection of ice-cores from Antarctica demand scientists extract the absolute maximum data from these precious commodities.
Ice-free regions in Antarctica are often the focus of scientific research, infrastructure, and tourism but without the protection of snow and ice, are strongly impacted by human activities.
This project will derive bathymetry information from high-resolution, multispectral satellite imagery in the shallow waters of Antarctica. Bathymetry is a fundamental baseline dataset necessary to understand, manage and conserve Antarctica's sparse and vulnerable shallow water coastal ecosystems.
Sea ice is a crucial component within the Earth System engaging in numerous ocean-cryosphere-atmosphere processes with wide-ranging impact, i.e., affecting the Southern Ocean [SO] marine ecosystem.
The world's best astronomical observing sites are on the high plateau within the Australian Antarctic Territory. Australia is exceptionally well placed to lead and partner international programs in Antarctic astronomy.
A thorough knowledge of global precipitation is an indispensable pre-requisite for the understanding of the water cycle in the global climate system.
Knowledge of an animal’s large scale movements through the landscape is essential to understanding its ecology. Many far-ranging Antarctic species can only be tracked with electronic tags.
There is convincing evidence that many Antarctic species have been on the continent for millions of years, but less than 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, Antarctica was heavily blanketed in glaciers.
In long-lived convergent continental margins, such as that which existed along the eastern margin of Gondwana during the Palaeozoic, the arrival of buoyant continental crust, by virtue of being unsubductible, has a profound impact on the evolution of the margin.
Mesopelagic fish are the most abundant vertebrate in the biosphere, accounting for more biomass than any other group of fish.