Whales are just amazing! They:
✅ are the largest animals on Earth 😳
✅ have the biggest babies 👼🏼
✅ keep the oceans healthy with their poo 🌊
✅ can talk to each other over hundreds of kilometres 🗣️
✅ love living in Antarctica! 🇦🇶🧊❄️ 🌊
There is no one better to talk to us about amazing whales than the very excellent Dr Vanessa Pirotta! 💫
Read MoreJoin us for our first Antarctica Dialogue Webinar - Research tells us that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are the engine room of global climate, and its waters are the cradle of global fisheries. Antarctica is a set of highly complex integrated systems which act as natural shock absorbers, accepting and returning heat and carbon over tens of millions of years. Antarctica’s reach affects all life on this planet. And with increasing detail, we are coming to the sobering realisation that human activity also impacts the Icy Continent.
Read MoreJoin us for our first Antarctica Dialogue Webinar - Research tells us that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are the engine room of global climate, and its waters are the cradle of global fisheries. Antarctica is a set of highly complex integrated systems which act as natural shock absorbers, accepting and returning heat and carbon over tens of millions of years. Antarctica’s reach affects all life on this planet. And with increasing detail, we are coming to the sobering realisation that human activity also impacts the Icy Continent.
Read MoreFollowing the first call for applications last September, two Mertz Fellowships have been awarded, with The Swiss Polar Institute and the Antarctic Science Foundation jointly funding a Fellow.
Read MoreAt our most recent Board meeting, Cheryl Walmsley was elected as a Director of the Antarctic Science Foundation by unanimous decision.
Read MoreCongratulations to our colleague and Board member Dr Tony Press on being made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) “for distinguished service to the environment, particularly to the preservation of the Antarctic and Kakadu.”
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