🌊 Southern Ocean
@thesouthernocean.bsky.social
Hardest working ocean on Earth you’ve never heard of. Doing the heavy lifting to suck up carbon and heat, and you know, just keep the planet liveable. You’re welcome.
More at @antarctic.bsky.social
More at @antarctic.bsky.social
Pinned
Some people consider me cold and remote. But I’m just getting warmed up.
🌊 Stay with me folks.
@utas.edu.au @arcsaef.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
🌊 Stay with me folks.
@utas.edu.au @arcsaef.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
An excellent plan by excellent people
The East Antarctic continental shelf is central to the #climate system yet remains one of the most poorly known regions of the global ocean.
So #Antarctic scientists in Japan and Australia have produced this ambitious forward-looking research plan.
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/wp-content/u...
So #Antarctic scientists in Japan and Australia have produced this ambitious forward-looking research plan.
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/wp-content/u...
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
An excellent plan by excellent people
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The next issue of our quarterly science bulletin 'Southern Signals' will be out in October. Please sign up at aappartnership.org.au/contact-us/ to receive yours by email.
July 2025 issue at createsend.com/t/j-614D1AD6...
July 2025 issue at createsend.com/t/j-614D1AD6...
September 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The next issue of our quarterly science bulletin 'Southern Signals' will be out in October. Please sign up at aappartnership.org.au/contact-us/ to receive yours by email.
July 2025 issue at createsend.com/t/j-614D1AD6...
July 2025 issue at createsend.com/t/j-614D1AD6...
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💪 A superpower of the Southern Ocean is taking up heat and carbon from humans and slowing the rate of global warming, by exchanging heat and carbon between the atmosphere and the deep ocean.
🔄 The freeze-and-melt cycle of sea ice drives this exchange by changing water density and acting as a pump.
🔄 The freeze-and-melt cycle of sea ice drives this exchange by changing water density and acting as a pump.
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
💪 A superpower of the Southern Ocean is taking up heat and carbon from humans and slowing the rate of global warming, by exchanging heat and carbon between the atmosphere and the deep ocean.
🔄 The freeze-and-melt cycle of sea ice drives this exchange by changing water density and acting as a pump.
🔄 The freeze-and-melt cycle of sea ice drives this exchange by changing water density and acting as a pump.
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🌀The stratospheric polar vortex is a belt of high-speed cyclonic winds around 12-20km high over the poles. When temperatures in the stratosphere – which contains the ozone layer – start rising in the southern spring, the ozone hole over the Antarctic grows.
2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
🌀The stratospheric polar vortex is a belt of high-speed cyclonic winds around 12-20km high over the poles. When temperatures in the stratosphere – which contains the ozone layer – start rising in the southern spring, the ozone hole over the Antarctic grows.
2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
2025 ozone: @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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🌏 Why Antarctica matters to Australia
🛝 Abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
🌊 Antarctica and sea-level rise
AAPP & @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social have sent these policy briefs to hundreds of politicians and policymakers around Australia.
Download yours ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-re...
🛝 Abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
🌊 Antarctica and sea-level rise
AAPP & @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social have sent these policy briefs to hundreds of politicians and policymakers around Australia.
Download yours ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-re...
September 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🌏 Why Antarctica matters to Australia
🛝 Abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
🌊 Antarctica and sea-level rise
AAPP & @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social have sent these policy briefs to hundreds of politicians and policymakers around Australia.
Download yours ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-re...
🛝 Abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
🌊 Antarctica and sea-level rise
AAPP & @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social have sent these policy briefs to hundreds of politicians and policymakers around Australia.
Download yours ▶️ aappartnership.org.au/antarctic-re...
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Q: What happens when #Antarctic summer sea ice hits record lows in 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?
A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
July 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Q: What happens when #Antarctic summer sea ice hits record lows in 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025?
A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
A: aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
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💎 What does the colour of icebergs have to do with storing carbon in the ocean? Prof Delphine Lannuzel is on board RSV Nuyina in East #Antarctica for the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV.
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🌊 youtu.be/_3ZGE9P0Qg0
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Jade icebergs and plankton fertiliser
YouTube video by Australian Antarctic Program Partnership
youtu.be
April 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
💎 What does the colour of icebergs have to do with storing carbon in the ocean? Prof Delphine Lannuzel is on board RSV Nuyina in East #Antarctica for the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV.
@utas.edu.au | @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social | @arcsaef.bsky.social | AAD
🌊 youtu.be/_3ZGE9P0Qg0
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🌊 youtu.be/_3ZGE9P0Qg0
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🌊 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙫𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙞𝙘𝙚
Spectacular vision of the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf, from the current #science voyage of icebreaker RSV Nuyina to East #Antarctica.
#DMV video ▶️ youtu.be/H92Tj3gZCqg
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Spectacular vision of the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf, from the current #science voyage of icebreaker RSV Nuyina to East #Antarctica.
#DMV video ▶️ youtu.be/H92Tj3gZCqg
@antarcticsciaus.bsky.social | @utas.edu.au | @arcsaef.bsky.social
Warming ocean vs Antarctic ice
YouTube video by Australian Antarctic Program Partnership
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
🌊 𝙒𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙫𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙞𝙘𝙚
Spectacular vision of the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf, from the current #science voyage of icebreaker RSV Nuyina to East #Antarctica.
#DMV video ▶️ youtu.be/H92Tj3gZCqg
@antarcticsciaus.bsky.social | @utas.edu.au | @arcsaef.bsky.social
Spectacular vision of the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf, from the current #science voyage of icebreaker RSV Nuyina to East #Antarctica.
#DMV video ▶️ youtu.be/H92Tj3gZCqg
@antarcticsciaus.bsky.social | @utas.edu.au | @arcsaef.bsky.social
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🌨️ Clouds over the cold Southern Ocean are different from elsewhere. Here they're seeded not by aerosols from land, but from the ocean—and even life itself.
Chelsea Bekemeier, on the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV in East #Antarctica, explains.
Full video at youtu.be/nGpVrJQkIaE
Chelsea Bekemeier, on the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV in East #Antarctica, explains.
Full video at youtu.be/nGpVrJQkIaE
April 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🌨️ Clouds over the cold Southern Ocean are different from elsewhere. Here they're seeded not by aerosols from land, but from the ocean—and even life itself.
Chelsea Bekemeier, on the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV in East #Antarctica, explains.
Full video at youtu.be/nGpVrJQkIaE
Chelsea Bekemeier, on the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV in East #Antarctica, explains.
Full video at youtu.be/nGpVrJQkIaE
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🐚 AAPP PhD student @utas.edu.au Nia Riengchan studies how acidification of the Southern Ocean affects the shell-building of small planktonic snails called 'sea butterflies'. Now, for the first time, she's able to watch their babies develop.
🌊 Full #DMV video at youtu.be/1fTlpTQTOOc
🎞️ P Harmsen/AAD
🌊 Full #DMV video at youtu.be/1fTlpTQTOOc
🎞️ P Harmsen/AAD
April 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
🐚 AAPP PhD student @utas.edu.au Nia Riengchan studies how acidification of the Southern Ocean affects the shell-building of small planktonic snails called 'sea butterflies'. Now, for the first time, she's able to watch their babies develop.
🌊 Full #DMV video at youtu.be/1fTlpTQTOOc
🎞️ P Harmsen/AAD
🌊 Full #DMV video at youtu.be/1fTlpTQTOOc
🎞️ P Harmsen/AAD
Flippers up!
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
April 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Flippers up!
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🌊 Denman Marine Voyage #DMV in #Antarctica: Mysterious 'sea pigs', murky mud, jade icebergs, exquisite marine life ... and the sheer excitement of doing science where no-one has been before.
🎞️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
🎞️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
RSV Nuyina in Antarctica
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
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April 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
🌊 Denman Marine Voyage #DMV in #Antarctica: Mysterious 'sea pigs', murky mud, jade icebergs, exquisite marine life ... and the sheer excitement of doing science where no-one has been before.
🎞️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
🎞️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Gives me the giggles
❤️🔥 What does #Antarctic sea ice and a relationship break-up have in common?
🤣 Ice-cold scientist Will Hobbs keeps the crowd laughing at #AARC2024 @utas.edu.au
🌊 youtu.be/OkQxhXTCcDo?...
🤣 Ice-cold scientist Will Hobbs keeps the crowd laughing at #AARC2024 @utas.edu.au
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Science Comedy: Will Hobbs - Antarctic sea ice
YouTube video by Future Science Talks
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Gives me the giggles
They’re getting under my skin 🌊🤗
1️⃣ In shelf waters close to #Antarctica, the annual freezing and thawing of sea ice presents a natural barrier to the measurement of crucial ocean properties like temperature and salinity. 🌊
Animation: #NASA Science Visualisation Studio
Animation: #NASA Science Visualisation Studio
January 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
They’re getting under my skin 🌊🤗
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Here's the latest 'Southern Signals' about our science in #Antarctica and the @thesouthernocean.bsky.social ➡️ createsend.com/t/j-39BDED69...
Our best wishes to you for the festive season and a happy new year, especially to scientists and crew working away from home, on the ice and at sea.
Our best wishes to you for the festive season and a happy new year, especially to scientists and crew working away from home, on the ice and at sea.
December 19, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Here's the latest 'Southern Signals' about our science in #Antarctica and the @thesouthernocean.bsky.social ➡️ createsend.com/t/j-39BDED69...
Our best wishes to you for the festive season and a happy new year, especially to scientists and crew working away from home, on the ice and at sea.
Our best wishes to you for the festive season and a happy new year, especially to scientists and crew working away from home, on the ice and at sea.
🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝
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1️⃣ A new multi-disciplinary study identifies eight potentially cascading ‘tipping points’ that span physical, biological, chemical, and governance systems and highlight #Antarctica’s critical role in global #climate stability.
December 17, 2024 at 7:40 AM
🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝🛝
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A23a has finally escaped the vortex! 🏊♀️🌀
The biggest iceberg in the world is on the move again after a casual half-year sabbatical spent spinning in circles.
Our @magic.bas.ac.uk colleagues have illustrated A23's super circuitous 2024 journey via satellite imagery ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/w...
The biggest iceberg in the world is on the move again after a casual half-year sabbatical spent spinning in circles.
Our @magic.bas.ac.uk colleagues have illustrated A23's super circuitous 2024 journey via satellite imagery ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/w...
December 13, 2024 at 9:42 PM
A23a has finally escaped the vortex! 🏊♀️🌀
The biggest iceberg in the world is on the move again after a casual half-year sabbatical spent spinning in circles.
Our @magic.bas.ac.uk colleagues have illustrated A23's super circuitous 2024 journey via satellite imagery ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/w...
The biggest iceberg in the world is on the move again after a casual half-year sabbatical spent spinning in circles.
Our @magic.bas.ac.uk colleagues have illustrated A23's super circuitous 2024 journey via satellite imagery ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/w...
From the bottom up—I’d like you to meet one of my best sides 🧵 check this thread
1️⃣ Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is the densest water mass in the world ocean due to its high salinity & cold temperatures. Filling the abyss, it accounts for up to 40% of oceanic volume. It plays a vital role in moving cold water toward the equator and regulating global climate.
Animation: NASA SVS
Animation: NASA SVS
December 11, 2024 at 10:40 PM
From the bottom up—I’d like you to meet one of my best sides 🧵 check this thread
Deeply beautiful
December 11, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Deeply beautiful
Some people consider me cold and remote. But I’m just getting warmed up.
🌊 Stay with me folks.
@utas.edu.au @arcsaef.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
🌊 Stay with me folks.
@utas.edu.au @arcsaef.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Some people consider me cold and remote. But I’m just getting warmed up.
🌊 Stay with me folks.
@utas.edu.au @arcsaef.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social
🌊 Stay with me folks.
@utas.edu.au @arcsaef.bsky.social @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social