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Antarctic Research Centre ANNUAL REVIEW 2011 Our mission is to improve understanding of Antarctic climate history and CONTENTS processes and their influence on the global climate system, especially on New Zealand and the southwest Pacific region. This is needed to provide a People 2 sound basis for national and international policy development on global Scientific Activity 6 change issues. The field also provides exciting opportunities and challenges Significant Events 16 for young researchers. Teaching 24 Collaborations 26 Outreach 28 Finances 30 Publications 32 Acronyms 39 DIRECTOR’S SUMMARY 2011 has been another exciting and productive year for ARC was the submission of the International Science Proposal team of Gavin Dunbar, Nancy Bertler, Tim Naish, Peter Barrett, During 2011 ARC had 19 staff and 31 staff and students. This year’s Annual Review emphasises the to the National Science Foundation. Meanwhile a range of Brian Anderson and Andrew Mackintosh have produced 32 graduate students. It was pleasing importance of our greatest asset, ARC staff , and highlights field investigations, involving Nick Golledge, Gavin Dunbar, peer-reviewed papers, 60 conference presentations, supervised to see nine students complete and the contributions of our research teams. Firstly, I want to Dan Zwartz and Cliff Atkins (SGEES) combined with glacial 17 PhD and MSc students, and has delivered more than 50 go onto institutions overseas for make special mention of Nancy Bertler’s Roosevelt Island modelling also by Nick is providing important insights into the public outreach and stakeholder products (reports, talks, media postdoctoral studies, or into the work Climate Evolution (RICE) ice coring team, who achieved a interpretation of Ross Sea Antarctic geological drill core records. interviews, briefings etc.). In addition the programme has force. It remains a concern that our major milestone in the project by successfully deploying the leveraged another ~$400K pa through scholarships, fellowships brightest and best are highly sought newly developed ice drill and recovering 130 m of ice core. While picking a single stand-out performance is always tough and other external funding. The loss of the core funding for the after overseas, but struggle to find This achievement represents the culmination of three years within such a talented group, the research highlight for me ANZICE Programme at the end of September 2012 will put at a bridge to research careers in New of technical development involving testing of the prototype comes from Lionel Carter’s ANZICE Programme, which is into risk this world-class research capability. Zealand. The ARC received $2.22M drill system in Greenland by Alex Pyne and Darcy Mandeno, its final year of funding from the former MSI. This collaborative in revenue and had an expenditure of and was made possible by the ongoing support of key partners programme has taken a holistic approach to assessing the The individual achievements of some ARC staff are also $2.09M. Our contribution to University GNS Science, Antarctica New Zealand and NIWA. I also want impact of climate changes in Antarctica and the Southern recognised. Rob McKay was awarded the Prime Minister’s overheads increased to $253K higher to acknowledge Nancy’s outstanding leadership of the project, Ocean on the Southwest Pacific and New Zealand. This has MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize, Nancy Bertler received a than previous years. 75% of our revenue Professor Tim Naish, Director Antarctic Research Centre and particularly the co-ordination of national and international been achieved through the integration of ice, marine and lake prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and Peter Barrett is from external sources (primarily partners. The stage is now set for the recovery of a globally sediment records of past warm climate analogues, together joined the ranks of only 71 Honorary Fellows of the Geological MSI, private donations, and Marsden). unique ice core climate archive later in 2012. with an understanding of glacial, ocean and atmospheric Society of London. Darcy Mandeno received a Victoria A future challenge will be finding new funding to maintain our processes from numerical modelling. ANZICE addresses a University General Staff Excellence award and Lionel Carter research capability after ANZICE ends. The glaciology and modelling group led by Andrew Mackintosh fundamentally important issue - that future climate projections was voted most popular Science supervisor by the Victoria had a stellar year with results reported in leading scientific indicate a range of climate changes not experienced during the University Postgraduate Students Association. We continue to work closely with our Joint Antarctic Research journals such as Nature Geoscience and the Journal of instrumental period (since ~1850), and can only be properly Institute (JARI) partners and together we are maintaining Geophysical Research, their 11 papers accounted for almost assessed from past “warmer-than-present climates” recorded in We said goodbye to Tamsin Falconer after eight years as ARC a world-class Antarctic-New Zealand paleoclimate research half of the ARC publication output in 2011. The ANDRILL geological and ice core records. On any metric, such as research Centre Manager and Melissa Bowen our part-time resident capability in New Zealand that provides a sound scientific basis Programme has made good progress building towards the next outcomes, stakeholder/end user benefits or education and oceanographer. With Michelle Dow moving very capably into for national and international policy development around drilling project at Coulman High on the Ross Ice Shelf under outreach, the ANZICE Programme has delivered outstanding the Centre Manager role we welcomed a new administrator, climate change and Antarctic issues. the leadership of Richard Levy (GNS Science). A key milestone value on a budget of $400K pa. Over five years the ANZICE Louise Soulsby. Royal Society Range, Antarctica (Photo: Dan Zwartz) OUR PEOPLE people Antarctic Research Centre Advisory Board Members Postgraduate Students (* thesis completed in 2011) David Bibby (Convener) Dean of Science, Architecture & Design, and Engineering, Victoria University of Wellington Annette Bolton* PhD candidate Paleoceanography Ian Graham General Manager-Research, GNS Science Rosie Cody PhD candidate Paleoecology and biostratigraphy Mike Hannah Head of School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington Lana Cohen PhD candidate Ice core climatology Wendy Lawson Gateway Antarctica and Geography Department, University of Canterbury Alice Doughty PhD candidate Glacial modelling Alex Malahoff CEO, GNS Science Shaun Eaves PhD candidate Glacial geology Ian McIntosh Manager, Research & Commercial, Victoria University Daniel Emanuelsson PhD candidate Ice core climatology Rob Murdoch General Manager-Research, NIWA Aitana Forcen Vasquez PhD candidate Physical oceanography Lou Sanson CEO, Antarctica New Zealand Jeremy Fyke* PhD candidate Ice/ocean modelling Caroline Schwalger Antarctic Policy Unit, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade Rachel Gavey*# PhD candidate Marine geology under appointment MSI representative Richard Jones PhD candidate Glacial geology Andrea Logan PhD candidate Ice core climatology Julene Marr PhD candidate Marine geochemistry Staff (* left the ARC in 2011) Molly Patterson PhD candidate Sedimentology and paleoclimatology Joe Prebble PhD candidate Palynology Tim Naish (Director) Professor (0.8 FTE) Sedimentology and paleoclimatology Rachael Rhodes* PhD candidate Ice core climatology Brian Anderson Research Fellow (0.67 FTE) Glacial modelling Matt Ryan PhD candidate Quaternary climatology Peter Barrett Professor of Geology (0.65/0.7 FTE) Stratigraphy and Antarctic climate history Katrin Sattler PhD candidate Geomorphology Nancy Bertler Senior Research Fellow (0.5 FTE) Ice core climatology Jane Chewings MSc candidate Sedimentology Melissa Bowen* Senior Research Fellow (0.2 FTE) Physical oceanography Kylie Christiansen MSc candidate Paleoceanography Lionel Carter Professor in Marine Geology (0.8 FTE) Marine geology Bella Duncan MSc candidate Paleoceanography Warren Dickinson Senior Research Fellow (0.2 FTE) Sedimentary petrology and permafrost Denise Fernandez MSc candidate Physical oceanography Michelle Dow Administrator/Centre Manager (0.8 FTE) Paleontology and climate change Georgia Grant MSc candidate Paleoclimatology Gavin Dunbar Senior Research Fellow (1.0 FTE) Marine geology Lawrence Kees* MSc candidate Glaciology and meteorology Tamsin Falconer* Centre Manager (1.0 FTE) Sea ice, drilling, Antarctic history and art Laura Kehrl MSc candidate Glaciology Nick Golledge Postdoctoral Fellow (1.0 FTE) Glacial modelling and paleoclimatology Sanne Maas MSc candidate Sedimentology and paleoclimatology Catherine Hines* Administrator (0.8 FTE) Art Bradley Markle* MSc candidate Ice core climatology Huw Horgan Research Fellow (1.0 FTE) Ice sheet dynamics Karen McKinnon* MSc candidate Glacial modelling Andrew Mackintosh Senior Lecturer (0.5 FTE) Glacial geology and glacial modelling Ame Plant MSc candidate Paleoceanography Darcy Mandeno Operations and Field Engineer (1.0 FTE) Antarctic drilling Kolja Schaller MSc candidate Glaciology Rob McKay Postdoctoral Fellow (1.0 FTE) Sedimentology Stephen Stuart* MSc candidate Glacial modelling Alex Pyne Projects Manager (1.0 FTE) Antarctic logistics and drilling technology Holly Winton* MSc candidate Ice core climatology Louise Soulsby Administrator (0.5
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