Scientist Bob Bindschadler will journey to one of the harshest parts of Antarctica to study how the ocean interacts with ice at the continent’s perimeter...
A handful of school teachers across the nation are joining Antarctic science teams as part of an International Polar Year (IPY) program that pairs educators...
A two-month science cruise aboard the Research Vessel Icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer called Sea Ice Mass Balance in the Antarctic (SIMBA) set out in September...
More than 15 years since first discovering dinosaur bones on Antarctica’s Mount Kirkpatrick, scientists confirmed this month that the remains belonged to a previously undiscovered...
After 25 years of conducting research in the Antarctic, glaciologist Robert Bindschadler finally got his wish – a true color map of the continent that...
The polar regions and those who have devoted their careers to studying them are stars in their own traveling road show, POLAR-PALOOZA. A public education...
A chance meeting between a digital cartography whiz and a geologist in need of a three-dimensional way to represent the McMurdo Dry Valleys has spawned...
One of three long-duration balloon experiments launched on the ice shelf near McMurdo Station at the end of December made an encore appearance during its...