IPY Legacies
The International Polar Year (IPY) officially comes to a close this month. But the legacy of the two-year campaign to learn more about the world’s...
Category : Education and Outreach
Frozen Planet
BBC and the Discovery Channel have teamed once again on a new documentary series. Filming on “Frozen Planet” began last year, and a team of...
Extreme Outreach
Four Boulder, Colo., graduate students will go to extremes this year when they head to Antarctica for a month of field research. Their hope is...
About the Journey
Few photographers or filmmakers have enjoyed the sort of access to Antarctica Norbert Wu has had over the last decade or so. He recently returned...
Lasting Experience
Eugene Domack was about six hours away from leaving Chile and returning to his family after working more than two months in Antarctica when the...
Changing Course
Extreme sea ice conditions and one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes bookended a two-month science expedition to the Antarctica earlier this year, ensuring few...
Last Hurrah
It’s the biggest celebration for the year that still hasn’t ended more than three years after it began. This month more than 2,000 scientists and...
New Wave
The National Science Foundation’s Lisa Clough joined more than 2,300 polar scientists in one place at the International Polar Year (IPY) Oslo Science Conference in...
Winter of Discontent
It hasn’t been a good year for climate scientists. It started in November 2009 with the illegal release of thousands of e-mails and other documents...
It’s Just Physics
“It’s just physics.” That’s the mantra coming from Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Penn State and one of the world’s leading experts in...
