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.
Our sedimentary research provides important archives of changes in ice sheets and glaciers and their influence on climate and sea level through time.
Sedimentology researchOur research into ice cores helps New Zealand to understand the major Southern Hemisphere climate drivers causing high frequency climate variability.
Ice core research
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
We are now starting to realise how important glaciers are for economic reasons as well as indicators of climate change.
A recent study used climate models to simulate what might happen when water from melting ice sheets enters Earth’s oceans.
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.
Keep informed about exciting fieldwork conducted by our staff and students in New Zealand and Antarctica, new research, outreach and other activities.
PhD candidate, Wei Ji Leong is interested in using 'deep machine learning' to map deep hidden subglacial lakes around Antarctica.
Explore our glacial, geological and picturesque scenes set in breath-taking Antarctic and New Zealand landscapes.
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.
As an individual, what is the single, most important thing I can do in the face of climate change?
Tim Naish is to take on a programme leader role for the Antarctic Science Platform that he helped establish.
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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