Join the Club
Clubbing has become a big part of the McMurdo Station culture. No, not the kind of clubs with big bass beats and itty bitty mini-dresses....
Month : November 2022
Magnetic Personality?
The ability for Weddell seals to return to the same breathing hole from more than a kilometer away caught the attention of researchers who are...
Season Opener
The skies above McMurdo Station once again buzzed briefly with activity, as the prologue operation to the 2013-14 summer field season in Antarctica made five...
Window to the Past
Tyler Mackey slips through a hole in an ice-covered lake in Antarctica, dropping a dozen meters into the near-freezing water and diving back about 2.5...
Going the Distance
Dana Hrubes estimates he has walked more than 5,000 miles across Antarctica. He is not a polar explorer, though he has certainly had his share...
Two for One
The most ambitious and extensive network of seismographs ever deployed on an ice shelf promises to reveal new information about two very different subjects....
Moving Along
Elbow room. It’s not something one would think to be lacking at South Pole. But the growth of the world’s southernmost research station over the...
In the Zone
Two years ago, a team of scientists, engineers and technicians broke into a subglacial lake nearly a kilometer underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Now...
No Horizon Anymore
Hired to cook at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station for a year, Keith Reimink packed along a $300 movie camera. His intent was simply to...
Scanning the Horizon
Are the McMurdo Dry Valleys melting? It may seem like a strange question to ask about one of Antarctica’s few relatively ice-free places. However, ice...
