Dress Rehearsal
Scientists conducting a “dress rehearsal” for deployment of an instrument through an ice shelf into the ocean below learned quite a bit about the system...
Category : Ice and Snow
Collision Course
An iceberg the size of Rhode Island collided with a glacier tongue, spawning a second berg nearly as big. Now some scientists are concerned the...
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...
Traced from Space
An international team of scientists used high-resolution satellite imagery to trace the most accurate map to date of Antarctica’s grounding line, which is a key...
Core Truths
Twenty years ago, Kendrick Taylor and his colleagues first conceived of drilling for a deep ice core in the middle of the West Antarctic Ice...
On the Line
Researchers and technicians from around the country, including young scientists working on their doctorates, spent part of their summer at the National Ice Core Lab...
Taking the Prize
Amanda H. Fricker was recently recognized for her achievements in polar science when she was awarded the 2010 Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and...
Roosevelt Island
It’s been about a dozen years since Howard Conway and colleagues visited Antarctica’s Roosevelt Island to make measurements that allowed them to estimate the deglaciation...
Data Download
An airborne mission to observe changes in the Earth’s polar regions is making sure the data will make it to researches as quickly as possible....
