New te reo name for the Antarctic Research Centre
Antarctic Research Centre is launching a new reo Māori name: Te Puna Pātiotio.
The Antarctic Research Centre provides world-leading research on how the Antarctic is responding to climate change and the consequences, both globally and for New Zealand.
We believe this research opens up exciting opportunities and challenges for young scientists, as well as providing a sound basis for international debate and policy development on global change issues.
Antarctic and ocean floor sedimentology
Our sedimentary research provides important archives of changes in ice sheets and glaciers and their influence on climate and sea level through time.
Sedimentology researchClimate from ice cores
Our research into ice cores helps New Zealand to understand the major Southern Hemisphere climate drivers causing high frequency climate variability.
Ice core research
Glacier and ice sheet modelling
Our modelling research allows us to investigate how New Zealand and Antarctic glaciers and ice sheets respond to past, present and future climate change.
Glacier modelling research
Glaciers critical for water resources
We are now starting to realise how important glaciers are for economic reasons as well as indicators of climate change.
Melting ice melts more ice
A recent study used climate models to simulate what might happen when water from melting ice sheets enters Earth’s oceans.
Carbon emissions reach record high
Over the last eight glacial/interglacial cycles CO2 varied between 180 and 280 ppm. In comparison in 2016, CO2 concentrations were 403.3 ppm globally.
IceSked newsletter
Keep informed about exciting fieldwork conducted by our staff and students in New Zealand and Antarctica, new research, outreach and other activities.
Machine learning to understand Antarctic ice
PhD candidate, Wei Ji Leong is interested in using 'deep machine learning' to map deep hidden subglacial lakes around Antarctica.
Untouched beauty
Explore our glacial, geological and picturesque scenes set in breath-taking Antarctic and New Zealand landscapes.
Latest news
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Tim Naish: Sharing New Zealand’s Antarctic expertise with the world
ARC's Professor Tim Naish is one of only eight scientists from around the world invited to speak at the first Antarctic Parliamentarians Assembly in London.
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Sea levels could rise up to 20 metres if Paris climate accord isn't followed, NZ study finds
A Victoria University of Wellington-led study published today in a major academic journal has found global sea levels have the potential to rise up to 20 metres under current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
ARC is carbon neutral!
In 2017, the ARC became the first institute at Victoria University of Wellington to go carbon neutral through the purchase of rainforest offsets from Ekos.
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