News and Updates from the PAIS Community.
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Past Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics (PAIS)
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Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics Video
29 Mar 2021A new video highlights the achievements of the Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) programme, which came to an end in 2020. You can watch the short… -
Obituary: Franco Maria Talarico
12 Jan 2021Dear PAIS community The Antarctic geoscience community recently lost a member of our family. It is with great sadness that we publish this obituary for our friend and… -
A new publication, titled "Towards Closing the Polar Gap: New Marine Heat Flow Observations in Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean", has been published in Geosciences. The… -
The Standing Committee for Undersea Feature Name (SCUFN) has approved some new feature names for the East Antarctic continental margin. The area is seaward of…
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Combined Antarctic palaeotopography and palaeobathymetry reconstructions for community use
06 Oct 2020Newly combined high-resolution palaeotopographic and -bathymetric models available to show the evolution of Antarctic topography and Southern Ocean bathymetry since 34 Ma. The grids were… -
A new paper "The evolving paleobathymetry of the circum‐Antarctic Southern Ocean since 34 Ma – a key to understanding past cryosphere‐ocean developments" has been published in Geochemistry, Geophysics,… -
The II Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination workshop has been postponed until a later date due to the COVID-19 emergency and cancellation of the…
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During the austral summer 2019-20, a large, cross-Antarctica campaign to evaluate spatial and temporal changes of surface mass balance (SMB) with water stable isotopes was… -
The 2nd International Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination Workshop will be held on 1 August 2020, from 9am to 4:30pm, at Rydges Hotel, Hobart,… -
Thwaites Glacier
03 Feb 2020Thwaites Glacier is currently losing mass rapidly, with changing ocean conditions leading to retreat, thinning and acceleration of ice flow. The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC)… -
AGU Session: Southern Ocean climate and Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics and media round table
29 Jan 2020AGU Session: Southern Ocean climate and Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics For the 2019 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) lead scientists of recent expeditions… -
A team of scientists* from Italy, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland are collecting data in the Dry Valleys in Antarctica as part of a two-year programme… -
TASMANDRAKE: Campaña Powell 2020 The TasmanDrake research group will be sailing on board the BIO Hesperides on the expedition POWELL2020. Between 3rd January and 4th… -
European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) is sponsoring merit-based awards
23 Dec 2019European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) is sponsoring merit-based awards http://www.ecord.org/education/research-grant/ -
Call for proposals for funding for Ship-time or access to Marine Equipment EUROFLEETS PLUS
23 Dec 2019Call for proposals for funding for Ship-time or access to Marine Equipment EUROFLEETS PLUS also in Antarctic waters https://www.eurofleets.eu/access/sea-call-regional/
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