On October 28, 2015, a group of scientists from Otago University's Department of Physics observed the last sunset of the year in Antarctica to research why Antarctic sea ice has reached record heights for the past three years while Arctic ice is shrinking. They used heated water to melt through 2.3 meters of ice and deployed 16 instruments to measure the ice, hypothesizing that supercooled water below the ice keeps it cold, in an effort to understand why the ice behavior contradicts expectations of thinning under global warming.

1. Antarctica's last sunset
for the year
By Alex merrilees

2. WHEN?
October 28 2015

3. WHAT?
 The last sunset for this year in Antarctica
 This is what it says on the title, but what they
are trying to figure out is why the Antarctic ice
is growing, while the arctic ice is shrinking
 They think it is because of supercooled water below the ice keeps it cold

4. WHO?
 A group of scientists from Otago
university’s Department of Physics are
researching why the ice is growing.
 Antarctic sea ice has reached record heights for the past
three years

5. How?
 Heated water is being used to melt
through 2.3m of ice so measurements can
be made.
 16 other instruments are being used to take other
measurements of the ice.

6. Why?
Why is this important?
 If global warming was happening the ice
should be getting thinner not thicker. Why is all
this happening well we don’t know YET…