Abstract The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is the largest continental ice mass on Earth, and
documenting its evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is important for …

Abstract The Australia/New Zealand region of the Southern Ocean is influenced by several
of the major global water masses of the oceans and is the prime entry point for cold deep …

To understand how planet Earth works we study it increasingly as a system–a collection of
interdependent parts or spheres–the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the …

Dramatic changes in sea ice have been observed in both poles in recent decades. However,
the observational period for sea ice is short, and the climate models tasked with predicting …

Little is known about the response of terrestrial East Antarctica to climate changes during the
last glacial–interglacial cycle. Here we present a continuous sediment record from a lake …

We review the post-glacial climate variability along the East Antarctic coastline using
terrestrial and shallow marine geological records and compare these reconstructions with …

Ornithogenic or bird-formed soils have accumulated in many coastal regions around
Antarctica as a result of breeding activities by pygoscelid penguins, especially the Adélie …

Thin sections of laminated cores from different Antarctic coastal areas have demonstrated
the potential of diatom species to document climate change at the seasonal scale. Here we …

Abstract The Late Quaternary climate history of the Larsemann Hills has been reconstructed
using siliceous microfossils (diatoms, chrysophytes and silicoflagellates) in sediment cores …

The Antarctic is a remarkable continent–remote, hostile and uninhabited. Yet, it is of key
importance in Earth system science. With an area of 13.2 million km2 it is about half the size …