Antarctic Research Centre

Antarctic Research Centre

Our mission is to better understand Antarctic climate history and processes, and their influence on the global climate system, especially in New Zealand and the southwest Pacific region.

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.

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News

13 March 2013 Film profiles scientists in the front line of climate change
Excerpts from a new feature film that paints an intimate portrait of the global community… Read more
13 March 2013 Professor Tim Naish awarded VUW Public Contribution Award
Professor Tim Naish, Director of the Antarctic Research Centre received a VUW Public Contribution Award… Read more
31 January 2013 Bedrock breakthrough in Antarctica
A team of scientists from New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, China, Sweden, USA and… Read more

Seasonal stratigraphy in a snow pit, Roosevelt Island, AntarcticaRICE

The Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) Project is an international collaboration between New Zealand, USA, Denmark, UK, Germany, Australia, Italy and China aiming to recover a 750 m deep ice core from Roosevelt Island, Antarctica to determine the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctica in a warming world Read more »

Jane Chewings with Emporer penguins in Antarctica

Jane Chewings

Jane is in the final year of her Masters degree, creating a sedimentation model for aeolian (wind-blown) sediment (or 'dust') transported from exposed, ice-free areas in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica to the Ross Sea. This project made Jane's long-held dream of going to the "Ice" come true. More »