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Icy Science, But Without The Scientists On Ice
Monday, 23 November 2020, 10:17 am | Antarctica New Zealand
Despite a reduced season to due COVID-19 restrictions, Antarctica New Zealand is delighted to have successfully continued an important sea ice project. The Sea Ice Mass Balance Station, a special probe that measures the thickness, temperature and ... More >>
Can Kids Ace Our Base?
Tuesday, 27 October 2020, 10:21 am | Antarctica New Zealand
It’s been designed by an international team of polar experts, and now Antarctica New Zealand wants Kiwi kids to have a crack at building the new Scott Base! Ace the Base is launching at the International Antarctic Centre today, and gives children ... More >>
From The Coldest Place To The Toughest Race
Tuesday, 29 September 2020, 9:15 am | Antarctica New Zealand
As if spending 13 months in Antarctica, wintering over at Scott Base and braving temperatures as low as -47 degrees wasn’t challenging enough, Joey Blatch has just signed up for one of the hardest endurance races on the planet. Joey, Antarctica ... More >>
New Board Members For Antarctica New Zealand
Wednesday, 12 August 2020, 12:55 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is pleased to welcome two new Board members. Independent Director, Jenn Bestwick and Environmental Manager, Neil Gilbert have joined the organisation. The appointments were announced in today’s New Zealand Gazette. Mrs Bestwick is ... More >>
Ice-olation For Antarctica New Zealand
Thursday, 6 August 2020, 12:04 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is gearing up for a much reduced season on the ice this year and a very different deployment to normal! Before they head to one of the remotest places on the planet, all personnel flying south with the New Zealand programme will ... More >>
A Green Building On The White Continent
Monday, 3 August 2020, 2:51 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
The colour of the new Scott Base may not be decided, but one thing is clear – the building will be green. Antarctica New Zealand, together with the New Zealand Green Building Council, has developed a custom Green Star tool to measure the sustainability ... More >>
NZ company to rebuild our home in Antarctica
Monday, 15 June 2020, 1:14 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is delighted to announce Leighs Construction Limited has been selected as the preferred main contractor for the Scott Base Redevelopment project. Leighs, a New Zealand owned and operated construction company from Christchurch, ... More >>
COVID-19 Impacts Antarctic Field Season
Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 2:06 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
As COVID-19 sweeps the planet, only one continent remains untouched and Antarctica New Zealand is focused on keeping it that way. After close consultation with other National Antarctic Programmes in the Ross Sea region and considering a range of scenarios ... More >>
Drilling for icy answers
Monday, 3 February 2020, 9:24 am | Antarctica New Zealand
This summer, nearly one thousand kilometres from Scott Base across the world’s largest ice shelf, a team of Kiwi researchers plunged to new depths. More >>
Our new rock-star Professor
Monday, 16 December 2019, 2:16 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
He has carved an internationally renowned career focusing on earth sciences, and now Professor John Cottle, from the University of California Santa Barbara, is coming home. More >>
Tsunami report for Scott Base
Thursday, 5 December 2019, 11:27 am | Antarctica New Zealand
An earthquake originating in Mexico could be the most likely cause of a tsunami that would impact New Zealand’s presence in Antarctica, a study shows. More >>
Ten million dollar plan
Tuesday, 19 November 2019, 12:01 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
It’s the driest, coldest, windiest, place on Earth ... yet millions of critters still flourish in Antarctica. And now, thanks to 10 million dollars of multi-year funding, we’re going to know more about them and how they’ll adapt to a warming ... More >>
Marsden success for Antarctic science projects
Thursday, 7 November 2019, 9:34 am | Antarctica New Zealand
Two Antarctic research projects have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in the latest round of Marsden funding. More >>
60 years of the Antarctic Treaty
Tuesday, 13 August 2019, 9:05 am | Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica is one of the most pristine environments on the planet, and the treaty system that keeps it that way has just turned 60. Alongside 53 other nations, New Zealand has reaffirmed its commitment to the Antarctic Treaty. The Treaty is a unique ... More >>
Negative SAM and this week’s wintery weather
Thursday, 1 August 2019, 9:39 am | Antarctica New Zealand
Negative SAM isn’t the grumpy dude in your office, but is short for the Southern Annular Mode - also known as the Antarctic Oscillation, the label given to the way the Southern Ocean westerlies and storms move around in the oceans surrounding Antarctica. More >>
Icebergs on ice
Friday, 5 July 2019, 1:19 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
A much anticipated delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables has arrived at Scott Base in Antarctica. The fresh supplies are a rare treat for the 12 hardy Kiwis wintering over at our home on the ice. A US Airforce C17 Globemaster arrived at Phoenix Airfield ... More >>
First look at our coolest redevelopment
Friday, 28 June 2019, 11:21 am | Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is delighted to share what a new Scott Base could look like. More >>
Millions of dollars for Antarctic research
Tuesday, 18 June 2019, 5:06 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
The Antarctic Science Platform is thrilled to announce $26 million will be awarded to long-term Antarctic research projects. The projects are led by well-known researchers from multiple universities and research organisations across the country. Platform ... More >>
Spotlight on Antarctic science
Monday, 17 June 2019, 11:02 am | Antarctica New Zealand
Over the next three days, Antarctic researchers from across the country will come together in Christchurch for the biennial New Zealand Antarctic Science Conference. More >>
Climate secrets buried deep beneath the Southern Ocean
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 3:47 pm | Antarctica New Zealand
A Kiwi couple are on board a ship filled with international experts hoping to extract climate insights from below the seabed in the Southern Ocean. University of Otago paleoceanographer, Christina Riesselman and husband Chris Moy, a paleoclimatologist, ... More >>
