The Dry Valleys’ Briny Deep
Hunting for groundwater has come a long way from divining rods in the days of yore. This past austral summer, scientists in Antarctica used a...
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Safety Rodeo Roundup
It was no ordinary heavy equipment safety lecture. On a windy Sunday afternoon, a crowd of McMurdo residents gathered at the at the cargo storage...
Icefin Tests the Waters
Navigating a robot through the frozen ocean’s frigid waters was all in a day’s work for the RISE UP science team. From their makeshift mission...
Icestock Rings in the New Year
Brisk winds blew through a bundled-up crowd, as they collectively bobbed their heads and swayed along to live music. The musicians played below large blue...
Digging For Fishies
The mountains of Antarctica may seem an unlikely place to find fish, but they were exactly what a team of paleontologists working along the edge...
As Residents Depart, Winter Arrives
Operations at McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have transitioned into winter mode as the residents prepare for nearly four months of total...
Listening to Rock Music
Rocks are cracking up all over Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Though it may take hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years, the slow but...
The Aesthetics of Antarctic Architecture
The current aesthetics of McMurdo station and its field camps are not likely to go down in history as great achievements of modern architecture. But...
The Flight of X-Calibur
Antarctica can be a double-edged sword for astronomers: conditions there are some of the best in the world for observing the heavens, but the harshness...
House of Ice
During the months-long, dark and frigid winter at the South Pole, members of the station’s winter crew spend their free time in lots of ways....
