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...
Category : Ice and Snow
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...
Norway, U.S. Team Up for International Polar Year (IPY) Traverse
Even after 50 years of continuous research across Antarctica by scientists from countries around the world, there are still parts of the icy continent that...
Going to the Edge
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...
CReSIS to Mold New Models
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is a National Science Foundation-funded Science and Technology Center. CReSIS pulls together some of the top...
High-Resolution Record
Researchers involved in the United States component of the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) make use of many tools, from ice cores to satellites, as...
Breaking Up
The spectacular disintegration of a large chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula in March may be part of an accelerating pattern...
The whole picture
A decade after using an Earth-observing satellite to image Antarctica to create the first high-resolution mosaic of the continent, Ken Jezek hopes the world’s space...
Complexities of climate change
Climate change remains a complex issue. It’s not as simple as turning up the heat by burning fossil fuels. Many scientists at Byrd Polar Research...
Winter no relief
Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect the Wilkins Ice Shelf. More ice broke away from the disintergrating ice shelf, the European Space Agency reported in...