Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
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Ice Planet Expedition: Thriving Antarctic Ecosystems Found in Wake of Recently Detached Iceberg

by Keith Cowing

An international team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) working in the Bellingshausen Sea rapidly pivoted their research plans to study an area that was, until last month, […]

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The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice ShelfFrontiers in Marine Science

by Keith Cowing

The seafloor beneath floating ice shelves accounts roughly a third of the Antarctic’s 5 million km2 of continental shelf.

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