Wednesday, August 26, 2026

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

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CLIMATE SYSTEM AND CHANGE Miss Katja Curtin - ANU Understanding Southern Ocean heat and carbon ventilation to improve climate projections 1 Dr Reka-Hajnalka Fulop - ANSTO In situ cosmogenic C-14 systematic and its implication for Antarctic Ice-Sheet reconstruction 2 Ms Talia Hawkes - IMAS, UTAS Investigating the systematics of Pb isotopes in seawater at East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier 3 Ms Alexandra Parrott - UTAS Examining the stability of the Lambert-Amery glacial system across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition using sedimentary records 4 Ms Harriet Easterbrook - UTAS The source of recent polar Southern Ocean warming 5 Dr Ezhilsabareesh Kannadasan - ACCESS-NRI / ANU Towards a fully coupled ocean sea-ice wave configuration in ACCESS-OM3 6 Mr Jenan Rajavarathan - UTAS Sensitivity of Antarctic GPS-derived bedrock motion to surface mass balance loading corrections and reference-frame realisation strategies 7 Mr John Reilly - UTAS Towards Dynamic Ice-Sheet Coupling in the ACCESS Earth System Model 8 LCDR Daniel Atwater - ADF Representing Antarctic landfast sea ice in CICE6 with lateral drag from coastlines and grounded icebergs 9 Dr Daniel Baggenstos - AAD A new Australian gas lab for the Million Year Ice Core project 10 Ms Alanah Chapman – Uni Melb A model sensitivity analysis of aerosol precursor emissions related to Antarctic sea ice 11 Ms Hannah Clark - Victoria University of Wellington A new biomarker record of East Antarctic temperature and vegetation across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition. 12 Mr Alexander Doherty - UTAS Understanding variability beneath the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica 13 Dr Jodi Fox - UTAS New Insights from Gaussberg Volcano, East Antarctica 14 Dr Matthew Jeromson - Uni Canb Simultaneous atmospheric–oceanic controls on East Antarctic Peninsula ice-shelf stability during the Holocene 15 Ms Lanyu Jia - Monash Evaluating CMIP6 representation of climate modes and teleconnections to Antarctic mass balance 16 Dr Junshu Lin - UNSW / South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS Delayed Response of Eddy Kinetic Energy Build-up off Somali Coast During Summer Monsoon 17 Dr Scott Meyerink - AAPP Dissolved Trace Metal Distributions Along a GEOTRACES Transect from Antarctica to South West Australia (I09S) 18 Dr Ryan North - Monash Resolving Late Quaternary East Antarctic Ice-Sheet Dynamics in Dronning Maud Land Using Paired Cosmogenic 10Be and in-situ 14C Chronologies 19 Dr Yushan Qu - UNSW / Ocean University of China Projected Changes of Mesoscale Eddy Activity in Subantarctic Mode Water Formation Regions 20 Distinguished Professor Joellen Russell - University of Arizona Seasonal stratospheric cooling over Antarctica changes the climate 21 Ms Helen Shea - Monash High and low Antarctic sea ice states in CMIP6 models 22 Dr Daniela F Soto - Universidad De Talca CryoRoads: an eco-genomic framework for mapping the biogeography and dispersal pathways of Antarctic snow algae 23 Ms Yucan Wu - ANU Iron Isotope Systematics in East Antarctic Coastal Waters: A Comparison of the Mertz and Denman Glacier Regions 24 BIODIVERSITY Dr Cara Masere - AAD Long-term monitoring of fish at Heard Island and McDonald Islands: Insights into biodiversity and management applications 25 Mr Fernando Mejia Gonzalez - James Cook University Unfreezing the genome of an Antarctic octopus: Chromosome-level assembly and genome annotation of Adelieledone adelieana 26 Ms Jaslyn Allnutt - IMAS How do diving seabirds use the Macquarie Island Marine Park? 27 Mr Ming Cheng - ANU A temperature-normalised view of Southern Ocean primary productivity under climate warming 28 Dr David Green - ACEAS Foraging seals reveal vertical structure of Southern Ocean myctophids 29 Miss Clarissa Hee - Monash The Signy Island biodiversity database 30 Ms Maddison Howell - JCU Using a whole genome assembly of Sterechinus antarcticus to uncover the genomic basis of survival in the Antarctic deep-shelf environment 31 Miss Laura Patier - IMAS Pathogens in Antarctic wildlife: detection and discovery 33 Ms Yongyi Peng - Monash Dryland soils are hotspots of diverse and dynamic prokaryotic antiviral defenses 34 Miss Andrea Polanowski - AAD CircumPOOlar DNA diet comparison: spatial variation in the diet of Adélie penguin populations at nine breeding sites across Antarctica. 35 Ms Ilona Sinn - UOW Humpback whale recovery in the Southern Ocean: demographic drivers and vulnerability to environmental change 36 Professor Kerrie Swadling - AAPP Arms race in the Southern Ocean: copepods and krill exert strong grazing pressure on the diatom Fragilariopsis kerguelensis. 37 FIELD CAMPAIGNS Dr Linda Armbrecht - IMAS Cook Ice Ecosystems and Sediments - COOKIES (IN2026_V01) 38 Dr Abigail Smith - AAD Krill Assisted Resuspension of Material to Atmosphere (KARMA): what goes down comes back around 39 Associate Professor Patti Virtue - AAD The trajectory of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina L.) population at Heard Island (1948-2025), a South Indian Ocean World Heritage property 40 Prof Andrew Bowie - IMAS A Decade Long Study of the Role of the Atmosphere in Supplying Iron to the Southern Ocean South of Australia 41 Dr Sonya Fiddes - AAPP / IMAS Modelling the MISO voyage: biological influence on aerosol, clouds and radiation 42 Ms Megan Kerr - University of Texas The coupling of ice and rock over deep time in the southern flank of Dome A, Antarctica: Results from the NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) 43 Dr Sally Lau - JCU Octopus diversification follows Antarctic Bottom Water pathways and intersection 44 Dr Coti Manassero - ACEAS Integrated Magnetotelluric and Seismic Constraints on Mantle Viscosity Beneath East Antarctica 45 Dr Tobias Staal - UTAS The Bathymetry under Shackleton Ice Shelf 46 MONITORING & DETECTING CHANGES Dr Alexandra Jurkiw - Geoscience Australia What controls your Southern Ocean and Antarctic Bathymetry Data – examples from recent RSV Nuyina voyages 47 Dr Samuel Beale - Monash Unveiling the environmental drivers of plant trait variation across Macquarie Island 48 Dr Jenny Giles - CSIRO An authoritative reference library for eDNA in the Southern Ocean 49 Dr Angus Henderson - IMAS Contrasting abundance trajectories for recovering baleen whales under rapidly changing human pressures in the Antarctic Peninsula region 50 Ms Yushan Song - UTAS Three-Dimensional Modelling of Marine Ice Shelf Fracture and Instability Using a Hybrid Finite-Discrete Element Method with Simplified Hydrodynamics 51 Mr Neal Young - AAPP Wide-area mapping of the Antarctic surface wind field from Thermal-Infra-Red images 52 Dr Tristan Burgess - AAD How do we manage wildlife health in the Antarctic and what is the role of National Antarctic Programmes 53 Ms Gabrielle Burke - IMAS Automating Antarctic landfast ice mapping using Sentinel 1 SAR imagery 54 Ms Luiza De Araujo Motta – IMAS High-Resolution Assessment of Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) Flux in the Southern Ocean: A 230Th-Based Approach 55 Mr Lewis Drury – UTAS Remote, rugged, reliable, robust? Advances in Southern Ocean sea-level monitoring 56 Ms Stella Fish - QUT Quantifying biodiversity in terrestrial Antarctica: bryophytes in space and time 57 Miss Brittany Gorry - QUT Investigating Generative Geospatial Foundation Models for Segmentation of Antarctic Remote Sensing under Data-Scarce Conditions 58 Dr Alyce Hancock - SOOS The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS): Connecting observations to understanding in a changing Southern Ocean 59 Mr Norman Mueller - Geoscience Australia Digital Earth Antarctica: An Open Access Satellite Data Platform 60 Miss Stella Riordan - UOW Identifying Antarctic moss species for biological proxy work: a morphological approach across three regions 61 Mr Michael Santarossa - AAD RSV Nuyina Science Capabilities 62 Ms Mariapina Vomero - UTAS Tidal Influence on Doline formation on the Amery Ice Shelf 63 HUMAN IMPACTS, INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS Mrs Grace Butcher - Geoscience Australia Measuring Human Impacts in Antarctic Ice-Free Areas: A Practical Framework for Assessment and Management 64 Ms Madi McLatchie - UQ The Extent of Plastic and Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Contamination in Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Wildlife 65 Ms Kasey Williams - AAD Investigating the Inaccessible: Understanding Behaviour of a Fuel Spill Under Ice 66 SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES Mrs Khush Bakht Rauf - University of Canterbury Effectiveness of the Antarctic Tourism Environmental Impact Assessment System 67 Dr Rupert Summerson - Independent Scholar The Wanderer. Representing a Southern Ocean icon in music. 68 Mrs Wei Xing - University of Canterbury Evaluating the Adaptiveness of the Antarctic Treaty System 69 Dr Diana King - UOW Securing a prominent role for diversity, equity and inclusion in Antarctica's Environmental Future 70