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Antarctic News - Archive from 2005

(Most recent first.)

Antarctic Glaciers in Retreat from Climate Change

• Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half-Century Science, Vol 308, Issue 5721, 541-544 , 22 April 2005
• Press release from the British Antarctic Survey
• Antarctic glaciers show retreat BBC website

Antarctic Treaty Secretariat

• Antarctic Treaty Secretariat Newsletters

European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)

• http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?activity=1&article=85&domain=3

International Polar Year 2007-2008 International Programme Office

• Appointment of Dr David Carlson
• In May Dr David Carlson will begin as the Director of the IPY International Programme Office located in Cambridge, UK
• Download more information here

News from European Space Agency

• Iceberg collides with Drygalski Ice Tongue and from the BBC website
  
• ESA's Twin-mode ASAR Antarctic observations.

Updated Ocean Database Available Online - Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology

• The Polar Science Center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) has been recently updated. PHC 3.0 is a smoothed, gridded 3-dimensional global ocean database of annual, seasonal (winter and summer), and monthly climatological mean temperature and salinity. More....

International prize "FELICE IPPOLITO" 2005

• The Italian Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (PNRA) has established an International prize dedicated to Antarctic research, in memory of Prof. Felice Ippolito who spent his life doing, promoting and managing Science. In 2005 the prize is dedicated to a well-known researcher in Antarctic Life Sciences.
• Recommendations, including motivation and documentation, expressed by national or foreign scientific institutions or by single persons, should be sent to Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Via della Lungara 10, 00165 Roma (fax +39-06-6893616, e-mail ufficio.premi@lincei.it) by 30 April 2005.
• http://www.csna.it
• Information on the International prize "FELICE IPPOLITO" 2005

Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice

• CLIVAR Exchanges no 32, vol 10, No 1 January 2005, contains on page 21 an article on the Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice by Dake Chen and Xiaojun Yuan go to: www.clivar.org/publications/publications.php
• Download the Seasonal Forecast of Antarctic Sea Ice article here
  Posted on the SCAR website 22 March 05.

Autosub trapped under Antarctic ice shelf (from IMarEST News, Issue 23, Feb 24)

• Autosub, the Natural Environment Research Council's unmanned, self-propelled research submarine, is trapped beneath Fimbul Ice Shelf, more...
  Posted on the SCAR website 23 March 05

The United States Polar Rock Repository

• The United States Polar Rock Repository (USPRR) is a national facility at the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University. more..

Satellites guide world's top yachts through Southern Ocean 'iceberg alley'

• Three of the world's largest and fastest yachts are in the midst of a non-stop trans-global race, hurtling in excess of 25 knots - 46 kilometres per hour - through the Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica. Iceberg collision is a real risk, but ice-sensitive radar satellites are monitoring the area to provide advance warning to crews.
  Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMODFD3M5E_index_0.html

Antarctic Ice Shelf Retreats Happened Before

• The retreat of Antarctic ice shelves is not new according to research published this week (24 Feb) in the journal Geology by scientists from Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

Multidisciplinary science opportunities for a Long-range Antarctic Research Aircraft (LARA).

• A report on a meeting to develop this concept was held in Virginia 27-29 September 2004.
  Report produced from EOS January 2005, with permission download.

Steve Rintoul finds Southern Ocean bottom waters have cooled

• Australian scientists have discovered dramatic cooling and freshening in the temperature and salinity of deep waters in the Southern Ocean that may reflect climate change. 21 Feb 2005

Dramatic Change in West Antarctic Ice

• From The Independent Online Edition; Dramatic change in West Antarctic ice could produce 16ft rise in sea levels
• From the BBC News website; Antarctic's ice 'melting faster'

Antarctica Iced Over When Greenhouses Gases - Not Ocean Currents - Shifted, Study Suggests

A longstanding theory that provides much of the basis for our understanding of climate change - that the mile-thick ice sheet covering Antarctica developed because of a shift in ocean currents millions of years ago - has been challenged by Purdue University scientists. 25 January 05

• Further information.

Atlas of Antarctic Sea Ice Drift

• This project was aimed at developing a digital Atlas of Antarctic Sea Ice Drift....

Long-term changes in Southern high-latitude ice sheets and climate, the Cenozoic history

• This series of articles representing the recent work of SCAR's Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) programme, has just been published in Global and Planetary Change 45 (2005). The attached PDF document is the Introduction
  Posted on SCAR website 15 March 05

Dronning Maud Land Air Network

DROMLAN, with departures from Cape Town, makes it easier for scientists to travel for short trips to Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica, and to fly between the bases there.

• The Dronning Maud Land Air Network(DROMLAN), A Gateway to Antarctica for Research and Logistics Download

Practical Biological Indicators of Human Impacts in Antarctica

• News of a workshop

Penguins face starvation threat

Thousands of Antarctic penguin chicks could starve after being cut off by a giant iceberg, officials say.