Alexander Fraser receives funding from the Australian Government via the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership and the Australian Research Council, as well as from the Antarctic Science Foundation.

A study by 23 scientists globally says landfast ice – which clings to the coast, protecting glaciers and offering a landing for humans and breeding habitat for emperor penguins – shrank to a record ...

A leading University of Tasmania scientist has been awarded a prestigious grant to research Antarctic fast ice and develop new mapping and climate models. University of Tasmania scientist Dr Alex ...

The loss of this multiyear landfast ice is now raising concerns about how the glaciers around the Larsen B embayment will impact sea level rise. Nearly two decades after the Larsen B ice shelf ...

Oceanographers have great difficulty conducting investigations by ship in Antarctic continental shelf areas where ice is attached to the shore, so a team of researchers have replaced these boat-based ...

Specialized portable radar could serve as an early warning system to reduce risk for humans working on shorefast sea ice, according to a recently published study. The researchers suggest that use of ...

There’s more to Antarctic ice than meets the eye. Sea ice is not a uniform crust overlying the salty Southern Ocean. Our new research is the first to review the many crucial roles of “landfast” sea ...

There's more to Antarctic ice than meets the eye. Sea ice is not a uniform crust overlying the salty Southern Ocean. Satellites can easily estimate the horizontal extent of sea ice, but determining ...