DP250101878

The Australian Research Council (ARC) announced new projects to be funded under the 2025 ARC Discovery Projects scheme on Tuesday 26 November 2024, which includes our project, i.e. DP250101878 - A Novel Model to Understand Ice Shelf Stability and Collapse. 

ARC Discovery Project scheme supports excellent basic and applied research to expand Australia's knowledge base and reearch capability. The following is the information of our DP250101878 taken from the website of ARC Discovery Projects 2025:  

Project ID: DP250101878 

Investigators: Professor Poul Christoffersen; Dr Sue Cook; Dr Hongyuan Liu; Professor Andrew Chan; Professor Helen Fricker; Professor Douglas Benn 

Summary: A Novel Model to Understand Ice Shelf Stability and Collapse. Climate change is undermining the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is losing ice mass at a growing pace. However, deep uncertainty in sea level projections is compromising effective adaptation and mitigation, not only in Australia but globally. The largest source of uncertainty in ice sheet models is a crude or missing representation of fractures that produce icebergs and may lead to instability. This project addresses this problem using observations together with a novel hybrid model to develop an innovative method for the prediction ice shelf stability. The project will improve sea level projection, increasing confidence in climate models and accuracy of future liveability along our coastlines amid rising global sea levels. 

Announced: 26/11/2024 

Admin Organisation: University of Tasmania 

Primary FOR: 3709 

Funding Awarded: $623,948.00 

Rock & Ice Workshop

A Rock & Ice Workshop on Engineering Solutions for Antarctic Science was hosted as part of the process of competing for ARC DP250101878. The speakers of the workshop are Prof Poul Christoffersen, Dr Sue Cook and Dr Katharine Hochmuth from the node of Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, Dr Hongyuan Liu, Dr Ashley Dyson and Dr Nick Roberts from the node of School of Engineering, and Prof Chunan Tang from Dalian University of Technology, who is an invited keynote speaker. 

Australian Antarctic Research Conference

Dr Hongyuan Liu, togther with Prof Poul Christoffersen and Dr Sue Cook, attended the 2024 Australian Antarctic Research Coference as part of the process of competing for ARC DP250101878. 

The 2024 Australian Antarctic Research Conference brings together Australia’s polar research community for our first national meeting in many years. This research conference covers the full breadth of Antarctic, Southern Ocean and sub-Antarctic research. Contributions are invited from all relevant disciplines, including (but not limited to) glaciology, oceanography, atmospheric science, biology, geophysics, biogeochemistry, human impacts, humanities, law, arts and social sciences, as well as new technologies and their application. The multi-disciplinary conference is held at the University of Tasmania (Sandy Bay campus in nipaluna/Hobart) and is sponsored by the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, the Australian Antarctic Division and Australian Academy of Science. 

Dr Hongyuan Liu made a lightning talk and a poster presentation on modelling Antarctic iceberg fracture and calving with a hybrid finite-discrete element method.