News & Blogs
The role of AIRBOX in understanding Southern Ocean clouds has received considerable publicity of late. In December 2018, the Australian Antarctic Division website ran a story on the AIRBOX project prior to the commencement of V2 to Casey Station. Around the same time the AIRBOX project was featured on ABC news online and in television news bulletins. In each case, project leader Dr Robyn Schofield and other scientists involved provided insight into the important role of Southern Ocean aerosols and clouds in global climate.
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Deep seascapes of the Great Barrier Reef
Uncovering submarine canyons and landslides along the continental margin of the Great Barrier Reef. Transit voyage from Brisbane to Darwin to relocate the vessel in preparation for IN2019_V06. During the transit, a number of research, education and outreach projects will be undertaken. The Chief Scientist on this voyage will lead a project to map the seafloor along the Great Barrier Reef continental …
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AIRBOX to study the polar atmosphere
AIRBOX to study the polar atmosphere A mobile air chemistry laboratory called AIRBOX travelled on the Aurora Australis this summer to measure trace gases, aerosols and clouds, as the ship plied the Southern Ocean. Read the article by the Australian Antarctic Division: AIRBOX to study the polar atmosphere
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Studying the air in Antarctica
Every day our atmosphere has to find a way to clean itself of the air, sea and soil pollution we throw at it. So, in order to study how this cleaning process works, the University of Melbourne’s Dr Robyn Schofield is sailing through the pristine environment of the Southern Ocean to our most untouched continent, Antarctica – an environment with the …
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Alex’s RV Investigator blog
The Slow Journey South Here we are on the Australian Research Vessel Investigator in the great swells of the Southern Ocean. It is day 33 of 43. We are 65 degrees South, 132 degrees East, and about 100 km north of the Antarctic coastline. To get here we have passed through the roaring forties and furious fifties and entered into the …
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PhD Scholarship: Atmospheric Chemistry at University of Wollongong
The Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry (CAC) in the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health (SMAH) at the University of Wollongong offers opportunities for up to two highly motivated PhD students to work on the project Tackling Atmospheric Chemistry Grand Challenges in the Southern Hemisphere. The project(s) will sit within a 5-year program looking at the Southern Hemisphere atmosphere using a …
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Neil’s V3 blog
After months of waiting and preparation, which included paperwork, training on scientific equipment and a medical examination, I had finally arrived in Hobart where in two day’s time I would be boarding the ship, the Aurora Australis bound for Mawson Station in Antarctica. For me, the journey to Hobart had been a long one, I had flown from Munich Airport …
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Max’s V1 resupply blog
Maximilien Desservettaz is on V1 - diary from the Aurora Australis! Today, Saturday 4th of November 2017, is day 7 on voyage 1 from Hobart to Davis and back onboard the Aurora Australis. It is the first day I have been able to sit down at my computer because of sea-sickness or the side effects of the sea-sickness patches and tablets. On …
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PhD in Southern Ocean aerosols
Check out the PhD opportunity offered at the University of Melbourne's Australian German college to study Southern Ocean aerosol. Working with AIRBOX partners and KIT this is an exciting opportunity for those wishing to model and observe natural aerosols in the background atmosphere.