Cracking the Case
Pine Island Glacier is the fastest flowing glacier in Antarctica. The ice flows into a relatively small but thick ice shelf. Thinning of that ice...
Category : Ice and Snow
Getting into the Flow
Byrd Glacier, a massive river of ice that cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains and drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf,...
From the Field: LARISSA Revisited
A team of glaciologists associated with the multidisciplinary LARISSA project is headed back to the Antarctic Peninsula this month to repair equipment left on several...
Bridging the Gap
Scientists returned to the skies above Antarctica in October for the second year of NASA’s Operation IceBridge. The airborne mission monitors the region’s changing sea...
Finding the Sticky Spot
The Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica offers a sticky problem for glaciologists seeking to understand how ice moves from the interior of the ice...
Upon Further Reflection
Sridhar Anandakrishnan never had any ambitions on becoming an Earth scientist, let alone a specialist in the behavior of Antarctic ice, while attending graduate school...
Deep Core Complete
The U.S. Antarctic Program has drilled and recovered its longest ice core to date from the polar regions. It took five years working from a...
Meltdown
Ice loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is rising to the top as the main contributor to higher sea level....
Unzipping Climate Change
Ice sheets in the northern hemisphere began a relatively quick retreat at the end of the last ice age. Antarctica didn’t really get going until...
Off the Shelf
An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the...
