Category : Ice and Snow

The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has helped transform glaciological research over the last decade. Its radar systems have been instrumental in recent...

A team with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project deployed last year to continue an effort to understand the dynamics of the...

Newly published research on the geologic history of the Antarctic Peninsula, specifically an area where a large, floating ice shelf disintegrated in the early 2000s,...

One of the world’s biggest break-up stories isn’t in Hollywood. It’s taking place around Antarctica. An iceberg that calved in March 2000 from the Ross...

The Ross Ice Shelf holds back enough ice from entering the ocean to raise sea level by several meters. The weird dynamics of an area...

The interface between water and ice on the underside of the McMurdo Ice Shelf is where Antarctica and Europa intersect in terms of how conditions...

The most ambitious and extensive network of seismographs ever deployed on an ice shelf promises to reveal new information about two very different subjects....

For more than a quarter-century, David Marchant, a Boston University professor, has been exploring the Transantarctic Mountains, methodically piecing together the story of the landscape...

The South Pole is a very cold place, with an average annual temperature of around minus 50 degrees Celsius. Even the ice is especially cold...

Led by scientists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, IcePod bundles together a suite of instruments into a capsule designed to provide new details about structures above,...