This paper is currently under review in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) journal “Earth’s Future” Impact Factor of “9”. View it here.
An international team of scientists, including GNS ice sheet modeller Dan Lowry, has published a paper predicting that sea-level rise from melting polar ice could be halved this century if we meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting warming to 1.5°C.
Read More“Sea-level projections for New Zealand’s Scott Base rebuild.“ The impact of sea-level change on our facilities in Antarctica will affect our ability to operate on the southern continent in the coming decades.
Read MoreCoasts in tectonically active regions face varying threat levels as land subsides or uplifts relative to rising sea levels.
Read MoreIn this article for The Circle: Artic Check-up Nick Golledge discusses the alarming feedback loops between the changing climate and melting ice.
Read MoreRecently research highlights the long term impacts of twenty-first-century ice-sheet melt.
Read More“Engaging new Antarctic learners and ambassadors through flexible learning, open education and immersive video lectures”
Rebecca Priestley, Jacqueline Dohaney, Cliff Atkins, Rhian Salmon and Kealagh Robinson
Polar Record
1 November 2018
In April 2017, Victoria University of Wellington launched ICE101X—Antarctica: From Geology to Human History—on the global edX platform. This Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, attracted 5735 learners from around the world, who engaged with content about Antarctic science, history, geology, and culture, primarily through video lectures filmed in Antarctica. Analysis of feedback from learners in three iterations of the course, offered between 2015 and 2017 and culminating in ICE101X, revealed that learners enjoyed the immersive Antarctic field lectures and learning through a diverse set of disciplinary lenses, had some preconceptions about Antarctica that were challenged by the course content, and completed the course with a new sense of interest in and protection of Antarctica.
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