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6 April 2021
Science Update - March 2021
16 March 2021
2019/20 Annual review of the New Zealand Antarctic Institute
2019/20 Annual review of the New Zealand Antarctic Institute (11 March 2021) Read More
12 March 2021
Diamond standards are a government agency’s best friend!
Antarctica New Zealand is thrilled to announce we have achieved ISO 14001 certification for our environmental management system! This is on top of our Toitū enviromark diamond certification and Toitū carbonreduceOur Environmental… Read More
12 March 2021
Science Update - February 2021
8 March 2021
Stuff | Scott Base: She's creaky but done us proud
Parts of Scott Base are creaking at the seams and the whole thing needs to be rebuilt. Read More
8 March 2021
A whale of a time at Scott Base
As lucky as finding a needle in a haystack, Scott Base has been visited by elusive Arnoux’s beaked whales.Two pods of the notoriously secretive whales were spotted by the Antarctica New Zealand team at Scott Base. The team scramb… Read More
Archive
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2021
- Science Update - March 2021
- 2019/20 Annual review of the New Zealand Antarctic Institute
- Diamond standards are a government agency’s best friend!
- Science Update - February 2021
- Stuff | Scott Base: She's creaky but done us proud
- A whale of a time at Scott Base
- Keystone Trust | Scott Base Redevelopment - Karissa Hyde
- Stuff | More plants could begin to 'invade the Antarctic Peninsula' as the frozen continent warms
- Stuff | Leaky buildings and ageing electrics: Report reveals poor state of Scott Base
- Scott Base Redevelopment: Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation
- Iceperts arrive in Christchurch
- Ride in Scott Base style
- What the future could hold for Antarctica’s unique ecosystems
- Science Update - January 2021
- Scott Base Redevelopment: Weather Station relocation
- Science Update - December 2020
- Bird's Icy View
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2020
- Lorde’s Voyage to the End of the World
- Lorde on Going South
- Antarctic scientists support climate emergency
- 2021 Antarctic Science Conference
- Science Update - November 2020
- November Update
- Scott Base staff continue Antarctic scientific project with coaching from New Zealand-based experts
- Contaminants expected in very old Antarctic penguin poo
- Icy science, but without the scientists on ice
- Antarctic research receives huge support in this year’s Marsden funding round
- Science Update - October 2020
- Can kids ace our base?
- Welcome to our Antarctic whanau Dr Dan
- Science Update - September 2020
- September Update
- Supercomputers and super cool science
- From the coldest place to the toughest race
- Stuff | Antarctica NZ planning for sea level rise – and fall – at Scott Base
- Days of Ice - Celebrate with us!
- Science Update - August 2020
- Antarctica through fresh eyes - a tauira film competition
- Supporting our rising stars
- New Board members for Antarctica New Zealand
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- A Green Building on the White Continent
- Science Update - July 2020
- The Warming South Pole
- Scott Base Winter Updates
- Kāhui Māori to protect and guide Antarctic as well as climate adaptation research
- This is Us - Aimee and Joey - Antarctica
- June Update
- Science Update- June 2020
- Congratulations to the Melting Ice and Rising Seas team
- Science on Ice
- NZ company to rebuild our home in Antarctica
- COVID-19 Impacts Antarctic Field Season
- Science Update- May 2020
- May Update
- Polar Journal | Facelifting for New Zealand’s Antarctic station
- Webinar: Redeveloping Scott Base for the future
- Highlights from the 2019/20 field season- SOOS
- New additions to the Redevelopment project team
- Emotive new documentary episode highlights Antarctica’s global role in sea level rise
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response update
- Science Update: April 2020
- April Update
- The world’s southernmost ANZAC service
- Business as unusual – designing through COVID-19
- Ex-Dinsney animator brings Antarctic story to life
- "Positive mindset, optimisim and a bottomless pit of patience and tolerance"
- Jigsaws and curiosity: An insight into coping in coronavirus lockdown from the most isolated place on earth
- Science Update- March 2020
- Antarctica New Zealand Update
- Update from the ice
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response
- Remembering an Antarctic legend
- Science Update- Febraury 2020
- Kiwi construction companies vying for Earth's iciest rebuild in Antarctica
- Is this the world’s coldest job interview?
- Drilling for icy answers
- Science Update- January 2020
- Satellite fault at Scott Base
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2019
- Science Update- December 2019
- Our new rock-star Professor
- Tsunami report for Scott Base
- NZ scientists to probe climate threat frozen underground- Jamie Morton NZ Herald
- Antarctica to London
- Science Update- November 2019
- Scott Base remembers
- Ten million dollar plan
- Marsden success for Antarctic science projects
- Science Update- October 2019
- Associate Professor Nick Golledge awarded 2019 Hill Tinsley Medal
- Contestable funding recipients announced
- Science Update- September 2019
- Ngāi Tahu Tourism and Antarctica New Zealand launch partnership
- Could you build our base in Antarctica?
- Welcome Tim Naish
- Science Update- August 2019
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) PhD Scholarship
- Marvellous modelling
- 60 years of the Antarctic Treaty
- Negative SAM and this week’s wintry weather
- Science Update- July 2019
- A childhood dream translated in conservation research
- Fire and ice
- From Greenland to Antarctica via Dunedin
- Antarctica, not all ice
- Significant funding boost for Kiwi Antarctic research programmes
- Antarctica's Scott Base to get $250 million upgrade
- Icebergs on ice
- Dramatic loss in Antarctic sea ice concerns NASA
- Science Update- June 2019
- First look at our coolest redevelopment
- The long, dark and very cold night: Antarctica in photographs
- Spotlight on Antarctic science
- Climate secrets buried deep beneath the Southern Ocean
- Millions of dollars for Antarctic research
- Applications open for four three-year research fellowships
- Science Update- April 2019
- New Chief Executive for Antarctica New Zealand
- Sun sets on another science season
- Youthfull toothfish abound
- Science Update- March 2019
- Māori Carvers head to Antarctica copy
- Antarctica Unfrozen, a podcast series
- Hip hop penguins and awe inspiring aurora
- Diving to new depths for Antarctic science
- Congratulations Professor James Renwick
- Science Update- February 2019
- Killer footage confirms toothfish on the menu
- In memory of Professor David Walton
- Bombs away in Terra Nova Bay
- How much coffee would you drink in a year?
- Science Update- January 2019
- Sir Ed's temperate legacy
- Antarctic stars in their eyes
- Jamie Morton's Antarctic Diary: Why Kiwis come to Scott Base
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2018
- Science Update- December 2018
- Science Update- November 2018
- Unfrozen funds for Antarctica
- NZ Schools visit Antarctica
- New Antarctic frontiers
- Science Update- October 2018
- From Antarctic ice to Jupiter's moon
- Collaborating under the ice
- Icy delay to Antarctica
- Canterbury student heads to Antarctica
- Science Update- September 2018
- The warmest farewell to the coldest travellers
- Into the East
- Science Update- August 2018
- Science Update- July 2018
- Forests of the Southern Ocean
- Wherever the wind - and climate drivers - carry her!
- Seismic Excitement
- Science Update- June 2018
- International Antarctic role for Otago Professor
- Science Update- May 2018
- Science Update- April 2018
- Antarctica: The First Dance
- Rare footage of whales captured in Antarctica
- Staying South
- X-raying Antarctica
- New Zealands Coolest Redevelopment
- Buffeted bt wind, history and amazing people
- Buffeted by wind, history and amazing people
- Antarctic scientists help Kiwi weather models by releasing hi-tech helium balloons linked to the internet
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2017
- Dancing on Antarctica ice a historic first for Kiwi dancer
- Antarctica's Ross Sea massive marine protected area comes into force
- Massive MPA comes into force off Antarctica
- What lies beneath: Why NZ's slice of Antarctica is at the centre of an eco-mystery
- Camping on the ice at Scott Base
- Diving Scientists Report 'Big Changes' Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf
- 'Unusual' seal pup spot near Scott Base
- 'Daunting' Antarctic sea ice plummet could be tipping point
- Pioneering Antarctic women honoured at Scott Base
- Antarctic tourism booming, but at a cost
- What it's like to camp in Antarctica
- Antarctic orca check out their world
- Fire and ice: Mapping the magma flow to Antarctica's most active volcano
- Otago zoologist honoured by national scientific peers through 2017 Marsden Medal
- Emperor penguins in Antarctica curious about making a friend
- Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise
- Penguins die in 'catastrophic' Antarctic breeding season
- Scientists to explore 120,000yo ecosystem uncovered after trillion-ton iceberg break
- Ice Ice Baby: Making science and family work!
- Place Personified
- Antarctic Air Day
- Filming under water life in Antarctica in 360 Virtual Reality
- Antarctic sea ice levels hit record low, but experts are not sure why
- Nelson artist's exhibition documents Antarctic journeys of Scott and Shackleton
- Big Antarctic iceberg edges out to sea
- Voting from Overseas: A Dummies Guide for New Zealanders
- Ten Christchurch art exhibitions to see this September
- Antarctic labs overhaul just the beginning for supercool Scott Base
- Postcards to Antarctica
- Life membership ‘quite a shock’
- The winners and losers of Antarctica's great thaw
- Warming Antarctica becoming more hospitable to animals which could lead to some epic battles
- 'We're on a really steep learning curve'
- Scientists in Antartica painting a bleak picture for low lying New Zealand coastal communities
- Mystery of Antarctic sea ice investigated by science and art
- Alarm over Antarctic data
- Record decline in Antarctic sea ice
- Century-old polar samples yield new insights
- Antarctic storm: 'Like living in a wind tunnel'
- Kiwi researchers discover 'almost perfectly preserved' 118-year-old painting in Antarctica
- Science on ice
- Is the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet inevitable?
- The G&T effect: Antarctica is melting differently than the Arctic
- To The Ice
- Antarctic Scott Base revamp on cards with $4m allocated to Kiwi base in budget
- New funding for Antarctica presence
- National Portrait: Peter Beggs, the NZ boss of white, odourless Antarctica
- The Antarctic frontier: developing research in an extreme environment
- Jamie Curry's Antarctic adventure a YouTube hit
- Iceberg replica to appear on Auckland War Memorial Museum
- Prime Minister's Science Prizes Announced
- 3.6 Million More Penguins Live in Antarctica Than Thought
- Four Kiwis reach peak of Antarctica's Mt Scott
- Whales, drones and ice: Six bold new Kiwi studies
- New Zealand on Ice
- The impact of our warming world on Earth’s ice
- Kapiti's Randal Heke proud of Scott Base construction and restoration 60 years on
- Conservation efforts underway on Scott statue
- Winners or losers? Antarctic starfish and climate change
- Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf
- When entertainment meets science: Hosting a TEDx talk on ice.
- TEDxScottBase
- 'We couldn't do it without the Kiwis' - NZDF drive unique fleet of trucks to fetch annual supplies in Antarctica
- A TEDx event in Antarctica marks Scott Base’s 60th anniversary
- 'Antarctica is calling out for us to help her' - Hollywood journalist Ashlan Cousteau
- Antarctic visitor numbers spark strong views at Scott Base anniversary event
- A journey to Antarctica: Life on the frozen planet
- New Zealand is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Scott Base in style, with the entire event broadcast online around the world.
- Antarctica NZ to mark 60th anniversary by hosting first ever worldwide broadcast from Scott Base
- Huge iceberg poised to break off Antarctica
- Student helps preserve Hillary's Antarctic legacy
- Jane Ussher on photographing Antarctica
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2016
- East Antarctica is Melting From Above and Below
- Digital Mapping of Antarctica
- Trinity Roots' Warren Maxwell ventures to Antarctica for fresh sounds, inspriation
- Antarctic Starfish
- Life on the ice: A glimpse of Antarctica
- A day in the life of an Antarctic researcher
- TEDxScottBase: More than science planned!
- Wigmore, astronaut in Antarctic Ted Talk
- Millions to see Otago's cool research
- Stunning images show Antarctica in all its breathtaking glory as a crew of scientists visit the Peninsula to chase whales and battle the freezing conditions
- Kiwi scientists shine in Continent 7: Antarctica
- Nat Geo doco follows Kiwi science on ice
- Major diplomatic coup for NZ as world's largest marine reserve gets the tick
- Tributes flow for NZDF, Antarctica stalwart
- Kiwi filmmaker touches down home after year in Antarctica
- Artist & scientist join forces to make climate change cool in the classroom
- Kiwi star Jamie Curry off to Antarctica
- Spending time with Antarctic penguins
- Antarctica pumps $178 million into NZ economy
- Beautiful drone footage of right whales off coast of NZ
- Antarctica ice shelf at risk from huge, spreading crack
- High Tech Drones Capture Whale Data
- Enviro-Mark Solutions is inspiring action for a better environment.
- Ice Age characters take advantage of new winter flights to Antarctica
- After warming fast, part of Antarctica gets a chill - study
- New Zealand to buy $493m naval tanker
- New research explains why Antarctic sea ice has grown
- Oldest Antarctic relics being conserved by Canterbury Museum
- Century-old artefacts retrieved from forgotten Antarctica site
- Antarctica NZ photo archive goes online
- Glacier melt to drown historic Antarctica New Zealand site
- Meet New Zealand’s extreme scientists
- Notorious Ocean Current Is Far Stronger Than Previously Thought
- Big Read: A to Z guide to the Antarctic