Associate Professor Bishakhdatta Gayen

ARC Future Fellow; Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

Environment

Research

Why Antarctic freshwater stores are now turning into saltwater

Record sea ice loss is transforming the Antarctic Intermediate Water – an ocean layer that regulates heat and carbon. These changes could threaten future deep-ocean warming, sea level rise and weather events

Sciences & Technology

The world’s most powerful ocean current could slow by 2050

New research finds the more Antarctic ice melts, the more the ocean is flooded by melt water, the more the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is likely to slow down – creating a vicious climate change cycle