Water, Water Everywhere
It’s easy to think of Antarctica as an unyielding, unchanging place, forever in a frozen stasis. But the month of January has shown just how...
Month : November 2022
An Airborne Look Through the Ice
Though researchers at McMurdo Station have been studying the Ross Ice Shelf for decades, the seafloor beneath it largely remains a mystery. Scientists with the...
Little Oblivion
After graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts degree, Susan J. Allspaw Pomeroy did what any other poet and academic would do: She jumped on...
Giving Mount Erebus a CAT Scan
An international collaboration of scientists is using electromagnetic emissions from lightning strikes and solar wind to map the inner workings of Antarctica’s Mount Erebus, the...
Harsh Continent
Mother Nature has not been kind to McMurdo Station this summer. Melt pools at the airfield. A disintegrating ice pier. Small icebergs calving from the...
The Dissolving Sentinels of the Southern Ocean
Scientists are increasingly finding sea snails with abrasions all over their tiny spiral shells, but these scuffs aren’t just wear and tear. They’re ominous signs...
Fond Farewell
The last plane of the 2013-14 summer season at the South Pole Station departed on Feb. 14, leaving behind 41 people for the Antarctic winter....
The Stuff Between the Stars
Four years ago, scientists set up the High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz (HEAT) telescope in the middle of the high Antarctic plateau, more than 500 miles...
Active Duty
In January 2013, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter POLAR STAR took its first steps toward returning to active duty on a brief three-day sail near...
Getting to the Bottom of SPICECORE
The South Pole Ice Core project, known more succinctly as SPICECORE, wrapped up its two-year drilling effort at the South Pole in late January, having...
