Antarctic Gateway Partnership

Antarctic Gateway Partnership The Antarctic Gateway Partnership is a special research initiative of the Australian Research Council.

The Australian Government has announced Australian Research Council funding of $24 million over three years for an Antarctic and Southern Ocean science program. The package is a capacity-building development that will further enhance Tasmania as a global leader in Antarctic and Southern Ocean science and a gateway for Antarctic research, education, innovation and logistics. Key objectives include

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1) Developing a marine technology hub to build next generation hybrid autonomous underwater vehicles for measurements within the polar environment;
2) Establishing a sea-ice charting and forecasting capability for polar mariners in the East Antarctic sea ice zone;
3) Advancing understanding of how the oceans influence melting of the East Antarctic ice shelves and to quantify present and future contributions of Antarctic ice sheet loss and sea level rise;
4) Providing much-needed insights into the environmental conditions that control marine life in and around Antarctic ice shelves; and
5) Reducing the unacceptably large range of estimates of the contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to sea level since the last major glacial expansion 20,000 years ago. The program involves the employment of forty young researchers and technicians working with senior scientists at the largest Southern Hemisphere Antarctic and oceans research hub. The Antarctic Gateway Partners are the University of Tasmania, CSIRO and the Australian Antarctic Division.

17/06/2020
18/03/2020

Congratulations to the Antarctic Gateway AUV team on a successful mission to the Thwaites Glacier!

Antarctic Gateway Partnership PhD Candidate Erica Spain is lead author on this paper documenting gas bubbles rising from...
03/03/2020

Antarctic Gateway Partnership PhD Candidate Erica Spain is lead author on this paper documenting gas bubbles rising from the seafloor around Australia’s remote sub-Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands.

Congratulations to Dr Alyce Hancock and Dr Wilma Huneke! Alyce and Wilma are the first students to graduate with a PhD u...
20/12/2019

Congratulations to Dr Alyce Hancock and Dr Wilma Huneke! Alyce and Wilma are the first students to graduate with a PhD under the Antarctic Gateway Partnership. A fantastic achievement by both!

Antarctic Gateway PhD candidate Kimberlee Baldry has been awarded a SCAR fellowship. Congratulations Kimberlee!
29/10/2019

Antarctic Gateway PhD candidate Kimberlee Baldry has been awarded a SCAR fellowship. Congratulations Kimberlee!

Congratulations IMAS University of Tasmania Antarctic Gateway Partnership PhD student Kimberlee Baldry, one of just eight early career scientists worldwide awarded a SCAR Fellowship this year.

The program will allow Kim to spend 3-months in 2020 at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) near Nice, France.

She'll research the use of Argo floats to collect data to estimate Southern Ocean phytoplankton using lasers that trigger their chlorophyll fluoresence.
https://www.scar.org/awards/fellowships/fellows/

16/10/2019

Antarctic Gateway Partnership Palaeoclimatologist Dr Tessa Vance is using a high-tech camera she describes as "a big expensive photocopier", to peer inside ice cores and reveal new clues about climate.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle nupiri muka arrives in Hobart for her mission of the South Coast of Tasmania. nupiri muka ...
07/10/2019

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle nupiri muka arrives in Hobart for her mission of the South Coast of Tasmania. nupiri muka will complete launch and recovery trials from MV Ocean Dynasty ahead of the Antarctic field season Australian Maritime College Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies - IMAS

Theme 3 Leader Associate Professor Jo Whittaker is Chief Scientist on the month long voyage to the Coral Sea aboard RV I...
05/08/2019

Theme 3 Leader Associate Professor Jo Whittaker is Chief Scientist on the month long voyage to the Coral Sea aboard RV Investigator

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