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IPY SYMPOSIUM

19.09.2011

Antarctica New Zealand, the Ministry of Fisheries and the Ministry of Science and Innovation are organising a symposium to showcase the International Polar Year (IPY) science outcomes and discuss future research that based on this work. The dates for this symposium are 26th and 28th September 2011. Antarctica New Zealand will also use the symposium to identify the best outcomes from the research completed during the IPY and provide support for the most successful programmes to attend the IPY conference in Montreal in 2012.

WALTER BONATTI

15.09.2011

Legendary Italian mountaineer and Antarctican Walter Bonatti, has died in Rome at the age of 81. Bonatti’s visit to Scott Base in 1975 at invitation of the New Zealand Antarctic Programme was part of a series of expeditions which helped established the Italian Antarctic Programme. Following his visit he lobbied the Italian Government to join the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting and establish a base at Terra Nova Bay in the Ross Sea. Born in the northern Italian city of Bergamo in 1930, Bonatti is widely viewed as one of the world’s best mountaineers, having climbed peaks in the Alps, Himalayas, Patagonia and Antarctica.

MEDIA SCHOLAR ANNOUNCED

13.09.2011

Journalism student, James Borrowdale, has been selected as Antarctica New Zealand’s Media Scholar for 2011. James will spend four weeks over the coming Antarctic summer season at Scott Base covering a range of science and environment stories from the Ice. James is a student of the University of Canterbury’s Graduate Diploma in Journalism, with strong interests in writing and radio broadcasting . James will be our third Media Scholar to visit Scott Base under the Media Scholar programme and will fly south in mid November.

HISTORIC DAY IN ANTARCTICA

08.09.2011

100 years ago today Roald Amundsen made his first attempt to head to the South Pole. His five man team left Franheim in the Bay of Whales on the 8th of September, 1911, but turned back in minus 52 degrees celsius on 12 September at 80° South. The full story can be found here:

WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET COLLAPSE

07.09.2011

Model simulations of past changes in Antarctic ice sheets suggest that between 243,000 and 191,000 years ago – a period known as Marine Isotope Stage 7 - there was a major loss of ice largely from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The full press release can be found here:

AIR NEW ZEALAND ANTARCTIC POST DOC ANNOUNCED

02.08.2011

Air New Zealand has generously offered a further $100,000 fund to support an Antarctic science Post Doctoral scholarship. The gesture is an acknowledgement of Antarctica New Zealand’s assistance with the remembrance ceremony at Scott Base in February 2011 for family representatives of those lost in the Erebus disaster. The full press release can be found here:

SCOTT BASE WEATHER

01.09.2011

Scott Base has seen some extreme weather over the last month with record snow falls not seen since 1966. Winfly has completed only 2 of the scheduled 6 missions due to blizzards and the temperature range over the last week has been between minus 43 degrees and minus 8 degrees. The current weather at Scott base can be found here:

LAURENCE ABERHART EXHIBITION

30.08.2011

Antarctica New Zealand Arts Fellow, Laurence Aberhart is currently having an exhibition of his Antarctic images at the RH Gallery in upper Moutere, Nelson. Laurence is one of New Zealand's leading photographers and spent two weeks at Scott Base in November chronicling his unique vision of Antarctica. Contact details for the RH Gallery can be found here:

ICEBREAKER AGREEMENT SIGNED

29.08.2011

The National Science Foundation has reached an agreement with a Russian company to charter a diesel icebreaker to create a channel through the sea ice of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound that will allow the annual refueling and resupply of both Scott Base and McMurdo Station. The full press release can be found here:

APECS FUNDING

23.08.2011

Antarctica New Zealand has recently contributed to the funding of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) as a way to increasing the capability development of polar researchers. You can find the press release here:

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