Projects Provide Education and Outreach
The web site of veteran Antarctic researcher Sam Bowser sums it up well: “Science is useless unless it’s shared, and most kids are born scientists.”...
Network Uses Radio Waves to Log Lightning
Scientists creating a network to triangulate and pinpoint lightning strikes around the world are using a very narrow band of radio waves to detect the...
Cleanest Air in the World
Once a week at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) South Pole research site, Station Chief Jason Seifert or technician Glen Kinoshita walk into...
Team Probes Buried Antarctic Lake
On the frozen Antarctic continent, subglacial lakes are a hot spot of scientific interest, but the information they contain remains untapped. “The ice sheet in...
International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) 2006-2007
Antarctic science requires many different methods in the pursuit of knowledge about the seventh continent and its place in the global ecosystem. The deeply browned...
Mount Erebus Throws Fit
Mount Erebus is famous for its persistent but low-level activity as the world’s southernmost active volcano. But last year it threw one of its biggest...
BICEP Adds Muscle to South Pole Research
Imagine a universe that exploded into existence and expanded exponentially, faster than the speed of light. Cosmologists operating a new telescope at Amundsen-Scott South Pole...
South Pole an Ideal Spot for Astronomers
Searching for a minute change in microwave radiation that has traveled across space for some 14 billion years requires not only state-of-the-art equipment, such as...
South Pole Telescope (SPT) Construction
When cosmologists – astronomers who study the origin and structure of the entire universe – must try to explain their work to laymen, they sometimes...
Eye on the Past
John Carlstrom has taken some pleasure from stirring up things around the South Pole this summer during construction of the South Pole Telescope. “This thing’s...