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...
One of the premiere projects of the International Polar Year (IPY), ANDRILL is a $30 million geological time machine. Using a specialized rig adapted for...
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...
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...
For the second straight season the scientific program known as ANDRILL enjoyed unprecedented success, extracting a sediment core 1,138.54 meters below the seafloor with a...
Edith Taylor, a paleobotanist at the University of Kansas, seeks answers to how flowering seed plants, the dominate flora species today, evolved over time. She...