Professor Alessandro Toffoli

Professor Alessandro Toffoli

Ocean Engineering, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

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Environment

The Southern Ocean is Earth’s climate ‘engine room’

A shipboard monitoring system is giving researchers much-needed measurements of Antarctic wind, waves and ice

Sciences & Technology

The elite athlete training for an extreme Arctic race in a fridge

An ultra-marathon runner is training in a research refrigerator with a team of engineers ahead of a 230-kilometre Arctic race

Environment

Exploring the birthplace of monster waves

An expedition to the Antarctic explores where rogue waves begin, and what these monsters tell us about the way the ocean behaves and interacts with global climate change