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14^th May 2013Message from the CEO

We are delighted at the decision by the Federal Government, to be formally announced in today’s Budget, to continue the funding of the ACE CRC. This will allow the continuation of world-class research into the impacts of climate change on read more >

18^th April 2013Sea ice reports for season 2012-2013 released

TR: Sea ice reports vol 2 for the season 2012-2013: This report is a compilation of weekly sea ice reports for the East Antarctic. The reports were prepared to support ship operations in the region during the season of 2012-2013. They were primarily used read more >

3^rd April 2013Ocean-ice shelf modeller wins Fulbright Scholarship

Ocean modeller David Gwyther has won a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship and will spend 12 months at the University of Texas at Austin helping to develop models of ocean and ice shelf interaction.“This interaction is a poorly understood but critical read more >

3^rd April 2013ADF must prepare for climate change role, says new report

The Australian Defence Force should consider the implications of climate change and develop strategies to ensure it can respond, according an Australian Strategic Policy Institute special report co-authored by the CEO of the Antarctic Climate & read more >

2^nd April 2013Scientists retrieve 30-year record from Law Dome

Scientists from the ACE and AAD successfully drilled a 30-metre ice core in East Antarctica in February, bringing home a single continuous climate record from the Law Dome site spanning the past 30 years.The ice core will be used to extend the calibration read more >

18^th March 2013Two ice-core methods reach same time-lag conclusion

Findings published by European researchers in the journal Science show temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide amounts increased simultaneously during the last major warming period, confirming findings that ACE CRC paleo-climate expert Dr Joel Pedro read more >

25^th February 2013Scientists solve 30-year mystery of the deep

Scientists, with the help of seals, have solved a 30-year mystery surrounding the formation of the global ocean’s coldest, deepest waters. Until now they had known that the cold, dense bottom waters of the global ocean originated at three different read more >

7^th February 2013Access Canute - the Sea Level Calculator

Scientists at ACE have developed a webtool to help with adaptation to sea-level rise. Our free software can help you plan for these events at a localised level. Access Canute     

31^st January 2013Joint Aus/NZ voyage will study how Antarctica affects ocean currents

A team of 22 Australian, New Zealand and French scientists will depart Wellington next week, onboard the RV Tangaroa, for a 42-day voyage to the Mertz Polynya region of Antarctica.  The voyage is part of the ACE CRC research program and is bring read more >

23^rd January 2013CEO's message

It was a great honour for Australia and Hobart to host 200 scientists from around the world in January for the fifth meeting of Working Group 1 Lead Authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 5th Assessment Report.  Working read more >

18^th December 2012Research helps scientists understand Antarctic food web climate change risk

A new dataset that highlights the dependence of algae on Antarctic sea ice will help scientists predict future food security for Southern Ocean herbivores such as krill. Scientists at the ACE CRC led an international effort to compile a circum-Antarctic read more >

6^th December 2012ACE CRC team wins national award

A team of researchers from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC in Hobart has won a national award for work that projects the local impacts of climate change throughout Tasmania over the remainder of this century. The team from the Climate Futures read more >

5^th December 2012ACE biologist wins funding for world's first polar sea-floor bio-dome

An ACE CRC researcher has secured funding to undertake the world’s first polar sea-floor carbon dioxide enrichment experiment. Dr Donna Roberts, a marine biologist who specialises in the impacts of rising CO2 on tiny shell-forming organisms, read more >

26^th November 2012All about the biology

ACE post-doc Elizabeth Shadwick has returned from Duke University in the US after winning a SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) fellowship. During her time at Duke, Dr Shadwick, a biogeochemist, was working with equilibrator inlet mass read more >

16^th November 2012Antarctic voyage brings home rare glimpse under the sea ice

An international sea ice voyage has returned to Hobart with spectacular images of the world beneath the East Antarctic sea ice. Researchers on board Australia’s icebreaker, Aurora Australis, spent two months in Antarctica studying the link between read more >

5^th November 2012Canute will help coastal planners adapt to rising sea levels

Scientists have developed a calculator that can guide coastal planners on theheight and positioning necessary for infrastructure to avoid inundation and erosion assea levels rise. The webtool, called Canute – the Sea Level Calculator, will estimate read more >

11^th October 2012First 3-D map of under the East Antarctic sea ice

For the first time in East Antarctica, climate scientists have produced a three-dimensional (3-D) map of the surface beneath a sea ice floe, revealing an inverted complex topography evocative of lakes and mountain ranges. Researchers on a two-month voyage read more >

21^st September 2012National award for young ACE CRC scientist

Dr Andrew Bowie, a senior research scientist with the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC) in Hobart, has been named the 2012 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year in the Physical Sciences category.Dr Bowie is a marine read more >

14^th September 2012High-tech Antarctic voyage will investigate life in the sea-ice zone

For the first time under-ice and airborne vehicles will be used simultaneously to investigate the impacts of climate change on the sea-ice environment off East Antarctica.   An autonomous, underwater vehicle will measure the thickness of sea-ice read more >

30^th August 2012Ice cores reveal unusual decline in Eastern Australian rainfall

Researchers from the ACE CRC and the Australian Antarctic Division have found evidence from ice cores of a long term decline in average annual rainfall in eastern Australia, with records revealing that rainfall since about1920 is below the average of the read more >