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Christina Hulbe & Craig Stevens

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Christina Hulbe is a professor and dean of the School of Surveying (glaciology specialisation) at the University of Otago. Craig Stevens is an associate professor in Ocean Physics at the University of Auckland.

The team used hot-water drilling gear to melt a hole through Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf to explore the ocean below.
(Christina Hulbe, CC BY-ND)

The Kiwi scientists exploring the hidden ocean beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf

From November through to January, a multi-disciplinary team of experts from New Zealand melted a hole through the Ross Ice Shelf to explore the hidden ocean below. Team members Christina Hulbe and Craig Stevens take us through the findings.

By Christina Hulbe & Craig Stevens | 31st January, 2018