Dr Pat Wongpan
Australia is a maritime country. Our economy relies on the sea. By 2025, the marine economy will have a combined value of $100 billion per year. In 44 years of satellite data, the Antarctic sea-ice area reached its lowest record in 2023 after a steep decline in 2016. Sea ice plays a crucial role in…
Read More »Dr Tory Clarke
My research is all about how to best grow healthy and productive food crops sustainably. Plants are like specialised machines: they transform sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and minerals into nourishing food. Yet, like machines, they falter when faced with drastic environmental changes or damage. Hostile conditions like heat waves or droughts, or attacks by pests…
Read More »Dr Marc Mallet
Seasalt and biological sources of aerosol emitted from phytoplankton are the dominant source of aerosol particles in the Southern Ocean that are essential for cloud formation. Understanding the complex interactions involving phytoplankton biology, atmospheric chemistry, and cloud physics is challenging due to insufficient data. Dr Mallet collaborates with a large network of Australian and international…
Read More »Dr Edward Doddridge
The ocean that surrounds Antarctica is changing rapidly; the water is warming, ocean currents are changing, and sea ice coverage has dropped dramatically. Sea ice coverage during last three summers was the lowest on record since observations began in the late 1970s. In 2023 an area of sea ice the size of Western Australia was…
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