All Creatures Great and Small
The story of how Los Angeles-based artist Lily Simonson ended up scuba diving under the sea ice in Antarctica begins with a tale about lobsters,...
Month : February 2022
IceBridge Flies High
In late 2017, a specially modified airplane contracted by NASA crisscrossed Antarctica, mapping the ice below and filling in a data gap left by a...
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fine Memories
Outgoing Antarctic Sun editor Peter Rejcek reflects on his tenure with the U.S. Antarctic Program, which started more than a decade ago at the South...
Neutrinos Point The Way To Cosmic Rays
Using data gathered by the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, scientists have for the first time identified a...
Successful Flights Means More Access to McMurdo in Winter
Residents wintering at McMurdo Station saw a rare sight in June; A United States Air Force C-17 touching down at the Pegasus Airfield during Antarctica’s...
Buried Treasure
A team of researchers has brought home samples of some of the oldest ice ever discovered, more than twice as old as most previous samples....
A Cold Week at the Pole
It was a frigid start to July for those wintering at the South Pole. An eight-day cold snap at the beginning of the month had...
An Ecosystem Grows in Antarctica
Antarctica’s native microorganisms are a hearty bunch, able to eke out a living on the planet’s coldest, highest, driest, windiest and emptiest continent. But the...
Report Offers a Vision for the Next Decade of Antarctic Research
An expert panel convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a strategic vision for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) that...
Antarctic Long-Term Ecological Research site turns 30
Researchers have documented significant ecological changes to the Antarctic Peninsula thanks to the long-running National Science Foundation program....
