LIVESTREAM: THE AUSTRALIAN GLACIOLOGY COMMUNITY REUNION

75 Years of Australian Glaciology

This inaugural event will reunite generations of expeditioners and scientists to celebrate, share stories and history, and discuss all things ice and snow.

Livestream details will be available soon.

FEATURE PHOTO CREDITS:
© Damien Beloin/Australian Antarctic Division.
The Million Year Ice Core (MYIC) traverse team on their 1168 km journey from Dome C North to Casey research station, with 186 metres of ice cores. The freshly drilled cores contain a record of the past 13,000 years of Earth’s climate history. Travelling at a top speed of just 13 km/hr, the convoy of six tractors and two snow groomers takes up to 18 days to reach Casey and is led by a 10-person team of expeditioners, 2026.

© Joel Pedro/Australian Antarctic Division.
Pulling an inner barrel full of ice core out of the drill and onto the rolling bench for transfer to the core processing line. The Australian Antarctic Program’s Million Year Ice Core project aims to collect a continuous record of 1-2 million years of Earth’s climate history by drilling for ice up to 3 km deep at Dome C North, December 2025.

© Jo Chandler/Australian Antarctic Division.
Australian Antarctic Division ice core chemist Mark Curran catalogues ice cores for beryllium-7 measurements at Law Dome, 2008

© Joel Pedro/Australian Antarctic Division.
Australian ice core drilling camp at Law Dome after a week-long blizzard, December 2008.

© Australian Antarctic Division.
Expeditioner stacking ice cores in racking in pit, 1972.