Southern Ocean

The state-of-the-art robotic float is essential for revealing how much carbon the ocean stores, and how that might change in the future.

A Taroona-based aquarium funded by the federal government will help scientists understand the impact of climate change on Antarctic krill.

Scientists have found the ocean has been warming over the continental slope by up to 2º-3ºC since the earlier half of the 20th century.

A new canyon more than 2,200 metres beneath the Southern Ocean in eastern Antarctica was discovered during the vessel’s maiden voyage.

Scott Morrison has underscored the threat to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean posed by climate change, illegal fishing and marine pollution.

This enormous, unprecedented algal bloom could have profound implications for carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and for the marine ecosystem.

New measurements show that global average wave conditions are increasing but, more importantly, extreme wave conditions are increasing even more rapidly with the largest increases occurring in the Southern Ocean.

There’s movement in the Environment portfolio, with the Antarctic Division’s chief scientist taking on the directorship and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority chief going to the top of the department.