Nearly 500 polar experts from around the country will gather in Hobart next week for the inaugural Australian Antarctic Research Conference.
The conference will be held at the University of Tasmania from 19-22 November 2024.
Chair of the conference steering committee, Professor Nathan Bindoff, said it is very timely that this will be the first meeting of Australia’s Antarctic research community in more than a decade.
“At a time when we’re seeing rapid and extreme climate-related changes in and around the icy continent—like record lows in sea-ice extent and unprecedented heatwaves—scientists are holding a national emergency summit about Antarctica’s future.”
“The underlying themes of the conference are both the impacts of global warming for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and the critical roles that the region plays in maintaining the global climate system.”
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