🐚 AAPP PhD student @utas.edu.au Nia Riengchan studies how acidification of the Southern Ocean affects the shell-building of small planktonic snails called 'sea butterflies'. Now, for the first time, she's able to watch their babies develop.

🌊 Full #DMV video at youtu.be/1fTlpTQTOOc

🎞️ P Harmsen/AAD

🌍🔬 Early Career Polar Scientists! Join us for an Online Peer Review Workshop 🧊

🗓 May 7 | ⏰ 9–10am PT

🧠 Keynote by Prof. Pete Convey + Panel with experts NASA, NSF & more!

🎯 Get peer review tips, ask your questions!

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"Fundamentally, climate change, whatever else it is, is a political problem"

@utas.edu.au have just released a new online course built around climate change, but it's not just an introduction to climate change.

Sunrise over the newly formed sea ice in front of the Shackleton ice shelf. Leave me here please

It's impossible to not think about the future of this amazing place when you're sailing through it. These sights give me hope :)

Application for the 2025 AntClimNow Dataset Development and Stewardship scheme are now open!
🔹 Funding for Antarctic climate data projects
🔹 Priority for Antarctic Climate Indicators (ACIs)
🔹 Up to $7,000 USD available

Apply by 28 April 2025:
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Making our way down South on the RV icebreaker Nuyina... Awaiting the first iceberg sighting!

Pretty exciting start to the new year - got to be a science ambassador on board of a flight over Antarctica, with incredible sights of sea ice and Mt Erebus smoking away..!

All thanks to the Antarctic Science Foundation and Antarctica Flights 🇦🇶

New account!
I'm Ilaria, a PhD student working on ecosystem modelling in the Southern Ocean. Want to chat iron in sea ice, krill, and penguins?

Trail running, rowing, and outdoors pursuits undo the terrible posture that desk life has cursed me with..