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Scott Base Redevelopment Project Director and General Manager for Engineering, Jon Ager, has decided to return home to the United Kingdom for family reasons, but not before he has helped to identify a way forward for the Scott Ba… Read More

Survey success for the Adélie penguin census, drilling outcomes from SWAIS2C on the Siple Coast and updates from the 2023/24 Ross Sea Voyage. Read More

An international team has successfully drilled through 580 metres of ice, obtained the longest sediment core ever retrieved from the remote Siple Coast, and gathered crucial information in their mission to understand the West Ant… Read More

TVNZ - A rare penguin is getting fattened up in its new temporary home after travelling thousands of kilometres from Antarctica to the bottom of the South Island. Read More

Radio New Zealand - How do know our climate's changing? One way is moss! Dr Charles Lee, a microbial ecologist, just returned from his 15th Antarctic tour where drones and high-res imagery helped establish a baseline for vegetati… Read More

TVNZ 1News - The challenge now is to melt enough snow to keep the hole in the Ross Ice Shelf open while scientists deploy instruments and retrieve sediment cores. Read More