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After a fantastic run since the start of the pandemic in 2020, COVID-19 reached our Antarctic research station in late January. The first positive case was detected on 24 January, the last on 30 January. We returned to normal ope… Read More

For nearly 70 years the Royal New Zealand Air Force has been an important presence in the frozen continent of Antarctica. Read More

Call for abstracts, themes and key dates for this year's New Zealand - Australia Antarctic Science Conference 2023. Read More

If they get past 0.6 metres into the ocean bed, they'll already have gone deeper than anyone has before - and they want to hit 160m. But there's another catch. Read More

Physiological and behavioural ecologist Dr Birgitte McDonald from San Jose University is part of the five year US-NZ study. She's heading back to the ice and says the GPS technology is giving researchers valuable new insights int… Read More

A group of NIWA scientists have set sail on a voyage to the Antarctic on a mission to study the world's most vital sea creatures. Plankton is essential for the food chain and helps produce more than half of the world's oxygen, bu… Read More