Explore the Centre’s news stories from 2020.
A snow and ice physicist, Ruzica Dadic has been one of the few people travelling in 2020 and to join MOSAiC, the world’s largest international polar research expedition, for 3 months since July 2020.
The Antarctic Science Platform’s National Modelling Hub was officially opened by the Hon David Parker, Minister for the Environment, at Victoria University of Wellington last Tuesday.
Rob McKay has been awarded the 2020 Asahiko Taira Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for his contributions to Antarctic glacial history, especially through scientific ocean drilling.
New research has found extreme melting of the country’s glaciers in 2018 was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused global heating.
ARC's scientist, Ruzica Dadic will become the first New Zealand researcher to join MOSAiC, the world’s largest international polar research expedition.
Hot water is playing a key role in understanding how Antarctic ice responds to a warming world.
The world will be better prepared for the worst effects of climate change due to Antarctic ice-sheet discoveries by the ‘Melting Ice & Rising Seas Team’, from Wellington’s Antarctic Research Centre in partnership with GNS Science and NIWA, was awarded the 2019 Prime Minister’s Science Prize.
Southern Alps glacier loses enough ice to supply NZ with three years' worth of drinking water
After eight years overseas, Rutherford Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Holly Winton has returned to work with Antarctic Research Centre scientists on uncovering the vital information the frozen continent can tell us about Earth’s climate past.
Antarctic Research Centre has hosted an American professor for the past six months, and her research in the tropics has secrets to tell about our neighbour, Antarctica.
