Latest Updates
Cold Antarctica and what this might mean for NZ’s ski season
This winter Antarctica is freezing, no surprises there– but it’s colder than usual. As midwinter approaches on Monday, Antarctica is two degrees away from recording its coldest temperature ever!Our Chief Scientific Advisor Profes… Read More
Science Update - May 2021
Take a look inside our new base
Antarctica New Zealand is excited to share what the inside of our new base will look like.A video of the interiors, released publicly yesterday – and viewed first by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern alongside our staff - takes you o… Read More
Successful budget for Scott Base
Antarctica New Zealand is thrilled the Government has committed $344 million to rebuild New Zealand’s home in Antarctica, Scott Base.The announcement has just been made by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Nanaia Mahuta, as pa… Read More
Learning to survive in Antarctica’s great outdoors
Learning how to live and work safely in the coldest, driest, windiest place on earth isn’t a skill set your average Kiwi has. However, everyone who travels to Scott Base needs to learn exactly that - to keep themselves, others an… Read More
Science Update - April
Archive
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2021
- Cold Antarctica and what this might mean for NZ’s ski season
- Science Update - May 2021
- Take a look inside our new base
- Successful budget for Scott Base
- Learning to survive in Antarctica’s great outdoors
- Science Update - April
- 2021 Winter Updates
- 2021/22 season planning update
- Health and Safety and the journey across the world’s largest ice shelf
- Paul Woodgate, 40 years of “moving stuff”
- Science Update - March 2021
- Diamond standards are a government agency’s best friend!
- Science Update - February 2021
- A whale of a time at 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 onference
- 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
- Antarctic Science Platform Update: October
- Welcome to our Antarctic whanau Dr Dan
- PhD Scholarship - Machine learning for uncertainties of past ice-volume changes
- Science Update - September 2020
- September Update
- Introducing our modelling fellows
- Supercomputers and super cool science
- Science Update - August 2020
- August Update
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Drilling through the world’s largest ice shelf for a glimpse into the future
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Forays into Frozen Oceans
- New Board members for Antarctica New Zealand
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Diving in Antarctica
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- Science Update - July 2020
- July Update
- The Warming South Pole
- Humans are encroaching on Antarctica’s last wild places, threatening its fragile biodiversity
- Mātauranga Māori takes vital role in protecting Antarctic climate research
- Kāhui Māori to protect and guide Antarctic as well as climate adaptation research
- June Update
- Science Update- June 2020
- Congratulations to the Melting Ice and Rising Seas team
- Science on Ice
- COVID-19 Impacts Antarctic Field Season
- May Update
- Emotive new documentary episode highlights Antarctica’s global role in sea level rise
- April Update
- Two new PhD opportunities with Project Three
- PhD Scholarship: Distribution modelling of Antarctic species
- PhD Scholarship: Extracting and compiling knowledge of biology across the Ross Sea Region
- Drilling for icy answers
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2019
- Antarctica to London
- Ten million dollar plan
- Contestable funding recipients announced
- Welcome Tim Naish
- New Zealand scientists to launch world-leading climate change study in Antarctica
- Significant funding boost for Kiwi Antarctic research programmes
- 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
- Congratulations Professor James Renwick
- Antarctic stars in their eyes
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2018