Return to Duty
Suddenly, it was there. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker POLAR STAR made a slow, steady circle around the sea ice in McMurdo Sound. It hadn’t...
Month : November 2022
The Lost Dry Valleys of the Polar Plateau
Today the McMurdo Dry Valleys are a unique geographic feature in Antarctica, lowland regions away from the coast with no ice cover. However, unusual mineral...
Running Cold
More than 60 people – outfitted mainly in long underwear, shorts, fleeces and hats – ran, jogged, walked, hiked and skied the compacted snow roads...
El Nino in Antarctica
If the weather at the bottom of the world seems a little out of whack this year, blame El Nino. Every few years, the ocean...
No Fly Zone
Blue skies and above-freezing temperatures around McMurdo Station since the end of 2013 and through the first half of January may be a dream for...
Secrets of the Gigantic Sea Spiders
The average sea spider in McMurdo Sound is neither itsy nor bitsy. Although they live in oceans all over the world, to find the really...
Memory of McMurdo
A photo of McMurdo Station, circa December 1955, before there were any buildings, recently surfaced. The photo was taken by Freddie Spainhouer, a Navy photographer...
Weighing Seals Without Scales
Scientists working on the longest-running Antarctic seal population study are using a new technique that needs little more than an off-the-shelf digital camera to turn...
Fueling Up
The fuel tanker Maersk Peary made its annual port call at McMurdo Station, where it unloaded about 3.5 million gallons of fuel in less than...
A New Home for an Old Experiment
The longest running experiment at McMurdo is leaving the station, but it’s not moving too far away, Antarctically speaking. The CosRay experiment, which has been...
