Guest Author • Feb 02, 2012 •
Despite being stuck on base due to weather for what is now the fourth day we feel incredibly lucky. The station went from being the Caribbean of the South (or so the locals say) to blowing snow and dare I say it — a little bit cold. Really, we are in Antarctica. An onshore wind picked up and built … Read More
Guest Author • Jan 30, 2012 •
by Dr Craig Stevens, Physical Oceanographer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) The weather was too challenging for us to get to our field site for a few days which was frustrating as we were all set to go. On the plus side it’s not often I get to celebrate a birthday in Antarctica – … Read More
Guest Author • Jan 24, 2012 •
by Dr Craig Stevens, Physical Oceanographer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Right on schedule we flew to the Mario Zuchelli Station in Terra Nova Bay run by the Italian Antarctic Programme. It is comparable in size to Scott Base, but as it is located a bit further north it is called the Caribbean of Antarctica … Read More
Guest Author • Jan 17, 2012 •
by Dr Craig Stevens, NIWA The first few days of any work down here are taken up with preparations, training, meetings and checklists. This seems a chore but is pretty important for keeping experiments running and having as few surprises as possible. Then the next task was to finalize our freight and make last minute decisions on what to take … Read More
Guest Author • Jan 16, 2012 •
by Dr Craig Stevens, Physical Oceanographer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) This is a new blog series describing the day-to-day work for an experiment looking at a coastal ocean flow in Antarctica. Unlike most oceanography the work is conducted from camps on sea ice. This is the frozen skin of the ocean perhaps a few … Read More
Peter Griffin • Sep 20, 2011 •
It is quite possibly the best-respected mainstream atlas in the world, but the Times Atlas of the World has attracted the scorn of scientists this week after publicity for its new issue claimed 15 per cent of the mass of Greenland had ato be erased to reflect the impact of ice loss due to warming. Read More