Australian Antarctic Division

🐧Australian Antarctic scientists are using drones, remotely operated vehicles and physical sampling, to complete the first comprehensive biodiversity surveys around Mawson station. The surveys will inform a risk assessment on human activity impacts and how best to protect terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gFnzckc2 📷 Rhys Manfield, Catherine King, Jason Davey

👀🐟Australian Antarctic scientists may soon be the first humans to set eyes on an Antarctic seafloor community, potentially isolated for thousands of years. Using a remotely operated vehicle they will explore and survey the unique marine environment under the sea ice in the Bunger Hills. Learn more about this marine mystery https://lnkd.in/gVKxmNpg 📷Jonny Stark, AAD, Glenn Johnston

🚜🚜Are we there yet? Australia’s tractor traverse left Casey research station last week for the 1200 km journey to Dome C, high on the Antarctic Plateau. Over the next 2-3 weeks the 10 person team will travel roughly 60-80 km per day to deliver 62 tonnes of equipment to the site of our million-year ice-core drilling project. Six tractors are towing sleds carrying machinery, accommodation modules and scientific cargo, while two snow groomers are clearing the path ahead. Once the traverse team arrive they’ll be joined by the scientific team to set up camp for the summer drilling season. Read more about traversing in Antarctica 👉https://lnkd.in/d_TjZcN 📷 Sean Murray (group photo), L-R: Damien Beloin, Jack McLeod, Damien Beloin

🐧👀Seabird scientists are monitoring for signs of avian influenza in East Antarctica this summer using ground surveys, remotely operated cameras, drones and GPS tracking to look for physical symptoms and changes in seabird behaviour and numbers. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gniGy4sJ

Scientists are using DNA to identify seabird species caught during longline fishing operations in Australian waters. The technology improves the accuracy of ‘bycatch’ reporting and monitoring and helps inform seabird conservation efforts. Read more: https://lnkd.in/grjwQ9Gy 📷 Mike Double

It’s Antarctica Day! ❄️ We are celebrating all things Antarctica today as we mark the anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and its enduring principles of peace, scientific endeavour and international cooperation. 🖋️ Every day our people are working to better understand and protect the icy continent and surrounding ocean. 🐧 Find out more about Antarctica and the Australian Antarctic Program on our website 👉 www.antarctica.gov.au

📢Are you interested in Antarctic jobs and science? The latest issue of our online newsletter 'Antarctic Insider' has you covered. 👀 Read online or subscribe for free: https://lnkd.in/gspKpXn 📷 Martin Kucera

Everyday jobs in an extraordinary place. Apply now to live and work in Antarctica! We’re recruiting more than 200 people for a wide range of trades and technical roles to help keep our Antarctic stations running. Apply now and be part of the team to head down South in late 2025. Check out the full range of jobs on offer here: https://lnkd.in/dPJbSKt

🌈Yesterday Antarctic expeditioners and head office staff celebrated #PolarPrideDay, recognising the important contributions LGBTQIA+ people make to polar research and life on station. Our colourful communities enjoyed rainbow cake and conversation, as we celebrated inclusion and diversity in the Australian Antarctic Program. Photos: Gordon Hutcheon, Jes$oncé, Anne Hellie

🐧Australian scientists have used satellite imagery to look at changes in the fast-ice breeding habitat of emperor penguin colonies across East Antarctica. They say some colonies are at high risk of being unable to rear their chicks to fledging, and that the species has limited capacity and time to adapt to rapid environmental change. More: https://lnkd.in/gF-uBvKA 📷D. McVeigh 🛰European Space Agency - ESA Sentinel-2 satellites