Blog archive:
April 2013

Two of our researchers are pioneering new techniques for measuring changes in climate on small, and revealing scales.

We are now exploring the deeper parts of the Burdwood Bank.

Today marks the middle of our cruise; it's an important milestone to be celebrated!

Introducing special guest blogger, James Tickner.

Indeed the wind died down enough for another trawl this morning, but it did not contain the organisms we’d hoped for.

DigiVol volunteers wearing their new colourful T shirts.

We finally reached our Scotia Ridge site today. But our hopes of launching a camera to directly survey the bottom were dashed.  

Today we transit to our next site, away from Shag Rocks and towards a tiny part of the Scotia Ridge that rises steeply from deep water.

This morning we were ready to go trawling at Shag Rocks.

After fishing on the north side of South Georgia for a couple of days, we decided to move around to the south side.  

Finally this morning we arrived at South Georgia and began fishing in earnest.

How can you help this world-first study being conducted by the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum?

What do the Tasmanian Devil, Tamar Wallaby and Platypus all have in common other than all being native Australian mammals?

You can imagine by now that we are all champing at the bit to arrive at South Georgia and begin our next round of sampling.

What attracts museum research scientist Dr Nerida Wilson to the Scotia Arc, a series of islands linking South America to Antarctica?