![]() ![]() My daily job involves deploying sonobuoys and managing a team of passive acoustics experts who are listening for whale sounds and guiding the ship to the whales, working with the ship’s crew and additional observers to make sure that we have every chance possible to see the whales. Now we have this acoustic technology that allows us to do it with unprecedented speed and accuracy. There used to be 200,000 blue whales in these waters and now there’s something like one percent of that, it might be two percent, but it’s really hard in the vast areas here to find them. I think the most exciting achievement is just our having the ability now to find these blue whales in the really thin soup that is blue whales in the Southern Ocean right now. ![]() Overall, the mission has been tremendously successful. Words just cannot describe it, and everyone on that vessel when we first came up close to a blue whale let out a gasp. What an incredible privilege to get up close to these animals, you can’t imagine how large they are. RSV Nuyina – Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker.Classification of scientific publications.An Independent Review of Workplace Culture and Change at the Australian Antarctic Division.Message for family and friends of expeditioners.Antarctic Infrastructure Renewal Program.What happens before departure & on arrival at station.Australian Antarctic Division Science Symposium.2022 Changes to the Australian Antarctic Science Program (AASP).Frequently asked questions for scientists.Australian Antarctic Science Decadal Plan. ![]() Environmental remediation & restoration.History of Australian Antarctic stations.Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.Australia and the Antarctic Treaty System.Environmental Impact Assessment approvals. ![]()
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