In the winter 2017, we crossed the Southern Ocean on #SAAgulhasII to measure waves in sea ice. We were lucky (crazy??) to be in the marginal ice zone during an explosive cyclone. The report of this adventure is available Nature Communications @engunimelb UniMelb Newsroom SCALE

We spend the past months revisiting 10-years old laboratory experiments to study how (artificial) sea ice attenuates irregular (directional) wave fields. Great collaborative effort with Alberto Alberello Luke Bennetts Dr JP royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… @engunimelb Royal Society Publishing

My PhD student Ippolita Tersigni discussing sea ice surface temperature from our IR imagies data set collected during SCALE winter expeditions at COSIMA workshop in Hobart

Great to see my phd student Giulio Passerotti presenting results of floe size distribution in the Antarctic marginal ice zone from SCALE

New stereo and sea ice cameras delivered today. Next step ... installation on the new Australian icebreaker RSV #Nuyina when she gets back to Hobart. Exciting measurements of #waves and #seaice in the Southern Ocean ahead @engunimelb antarctica.gov.au

An optimised method to estimate directional wave spectra from ship motion: an approach to retrieve wave information in the marginal ice zone from past Antarctic expeditions. Our research @engunimelb led by Filippo Nelli in collaboration with Alberto Alberello and Marzieh H. Derkani

Flashback of an incredible voyage across a forsaken ocean ... Winter Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone during a polar cyclone (July 2017) Alberto Alberello Marcello Vichi @engunimelb youtu.be/HtMDBnSTNTk via YouTube

Focussing on WP3, crucial wave and sea-ice observations will be acquired thanks to an #ARC funded camera system, comprising stereo cameras, hyperspectral etc. The camera system is developed by CI Alessandro Toffoli #UMelbourne. Deployment on RSV Nuyina o-si-a observatory. 🧵

Looking forward to deploying our autonomous system of optical sensors in the visual and infrared range on the RSV Nuyina. Exciting science ahead on waves and sea ice, continuing pioneering research started with our South African friends SCALE

Well done Ippolita Tersigni for a successful PhD completion seminar on your work on air sea fluxes in the Antactic marginal ice zone

New paper by my PhD student Ippolita Tersigni and friends, discussing high resolution thermal images of Antarctic sea ice SCALE. Thermal sensors to operate soon from RSV Nuyina antarctica.gov.au Petra Heil Alberto Alberello Marcello Vichi agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

An unusual experiment in our wind-sea ice-wave flume @engunimelb for #flumefriday. We help Sia Kindberg train at a temperature of -15C for an ultra marathon challenge in the Sweden's Arctic region ... in winter UniMelb Newsroom

Experimental sea ice research capabilities to underpin training for an ultra-marathon

It was a pleasure to welcome Alberto Alberello at @engunimelb today. Great to learn about his recent research on waves in ice, focussing on directional sea states

Fair winds and a following sea to our intrepid Ippolita Tersigni who has just set sail from Hobart aboard RSV Nuyina to test our new camera system for waves and sea ice observations. More updates soon @engunimelb antarctica.gov.au Petra Heil Filippo Nelli Giulio Passerotti

Congratulations to Sia Kindberg for completing the 2024 #IceUltra marathon in Swedish Lapland and crossing the finish line as the third woman. A fantastic achievement!! Proud to have contributed to her training and race planning in the ice facility @engunimelb

Hard to find large fractions of sea ice in Antarctica at the moment (there is less that expected, though it is not surprising). Despite this, our monitoring system on RSVNuyina is capturing good snapshots of the remaining sea ice state. Thanks to Ippolita Tersigni @engunimelb

We explored the enigma of rogue waves in Earth's vast and mysterious oceans using stereo imaging to reveal the significance of wind force in causing them to occur more frequently than previously thought. Alberto Alberello Marcello Vichi Filippo Nelli et al. @engunimelb

A new study gets close to understanding where rogue waves come from + how to predict them. "Our findings challenge previous thinking: that self-amplification doesn’t change the likelihood of rogue waves in the ocean," writes Alessandro Toffoli (University of Melbourne). theconversation.com/rogue-waves-in…

Nice to see our work on rogue seas state made it to the Physical Review Letters 2024 collection UniMelb Newsroom Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Alberto Alberello Marcello Vichi