Learn more about:

The Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC)

Other Australian IPY projects

Other IPY sea ice projects

Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt) program.

International Polar Year (IPY).

Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) program.

The US ship Nathaniel B. Palmer is conducting sea ice research in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica at the same time as our SIPEX expedition. For information about their program click here. To see updates from the teacher on that voyage, go to the PolarTREC website, then click on "Sea Ice Mass Balance".