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Professor Selina Stead to lead Australian Institute of Marine Science
Professor Selina Stead, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Environment at the University, has been appointed to lead Australia’s tropical marine research agency as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Scientists track rapid retreat of Antarctic glacier
Scientists are warning that apparently stable glaciers in the Antarctic can “switch very rapidly” and lose large quantities of ice as a result of warmer seas.
AI can map the outline and area of giant icebergs
Scientists have trained an artificial intelligence or AI system to accurately map in one-hundredth of a second the surface area and outline of giant icebergs captured on satellite images.
Over 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves are smaller
71 of the 162 ice shelves that surround Antarctica have reduced in volume over 25 years from 1997 to 2021, with a net release of 7.5 trillion tonnes of meltwater into the oceans, say scientists.
Antarctica’s glacial border migrates for miles with the tide
New measurements of how the boundary between onshore glaciers and floating ice shelves glides back and forth could help predict melting.