CSIRO vessel embarks on Antarctic trip to investigate sea levels and climate

The CSIRO’s Investigator has embarked on a 60-day trip to investigate how the Antarctic region impacts sea levels and climate.

The research team has left Hobart and is now sailing south.

They are aiming to travel more than 9,000 kilometres before returning to Freemantle in early March.

“We’ll be looking for clues into how the ocean and the atmosphere are changing and how the climate is changing in the Southern Ocean,” Australia Antarctic Program Partnership Co-Chief Scientist Dr Annie Foppert said.

“We’ll be looking from the deepest layers of the ocean to the clouds in the atmosphere above, understanding where heat and carbon from the atmosphere are being put in the ocean and stored in the interior for decades to up to millennia.”

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