This talk is designed to satisfy the curiosity of Antarcticans about the work of an interloper in their domain – a person with the audacity suggest that their motivation as individuals, and their behaviour in isolated groups, might be as crucial to successful outcomes as many of the other factors with which they have to contend.
This is our first Wellington-based event of the year, with four talks from last season’s research on sea ice formation, the crustal transition between East and West Antarctica, in support of the new Ross Sea Marine Protected Area, and first deep-sea drilling in the Amundsen Sea region of West Antarctica. We’ll conclude with a 10 minute overview of Antarctic drilling produced after last year’s Ross Sea drilling.
How the Antarctic Ice Sheet formed, then waxed and waned over the last 30 million years – secrets revealed from the drilling programs, 1973 to today.
Sentinels in the Southern Ocean, the Subantarctic Islands are the stage ships wrecks and despair, exploration and life in new lands that are rich in biodiverisity above and below the sea.
Hear Dr Ursula Rack, Polar Historian, and Adjunct Fellow of Gateway Antarctica, present on Frozen History.
Join us at Godley Head to celebrate International Antarctic Day, recognising the Antarctic Treaty, and visit a little known Canterbury Antarctic connection.
What is it like to spend one year at the South Pole? No aircraft for nine months, no Sun for six!
Nancy Bertler will present on the new MBIE-funded initiative, the Antarctic Science Platform, which is designed to help understand Antarctica’s impact on the global earth system, and how this might change in a future world.
This talk will be live streamed for all those who cannot make it in person!
Please join us for the 32nd annual Sir Holmes Miller Memorial Lecture by Peter Otway. Peter Otway will talk about surveying in Antarctica in the 1960s, and using dogs and sleds for transport.
The lecture commemorates Sir Holmes’ pioneering surveys by dog sled for Hillary’s route to the Pole.
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