Coastal Erosion
Less than a month after a wind storm in McMurdo Sound destroyed the ice pier at McMurdo Station, the tip of Hut Point Peninsula calved...
Month : November 2022
The Southern Ocean’s Carbon Sink Stronger than Ever
The waters around Antarctica seem to have reversed a troubling trend. Bucking predictions, observations now show that the Southern Ocean is pulling more carbon dioxide...
Trauma Training
Thanks to a rotating contingent of medical personnel from the U.S. Air Force, along with volunteers from the community, McMurdo Station’s small clinic can handle...
Keeping Scientists AWARE of the West Antarctic Climate
AWARE, the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) is a part of the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM). The National Science Foundation...
Delivering the Goods
The National Science Foundation is seeking nearly $7.3 billion for fiscal year 2015, including $435 million for the Division of Polar Programs. The request includes...
Scientists Recover an Abundance of Fossils and Geologic Data from Antarctica
Using everything from pickaxes to helicopters, paleontologists scoured multiple islands off the Antarctic Peninsula in February and March for the remains of prehistoric beasts and...
It All Adds Up
Some get excited for Oscar nominee lists. Others scrutinize March Madness brackets like they were financial statements. For the U.S. Antarctic Program, the closest equivalent...
Antibiotics from a Sponge
A newly discovered chemical compound found in an Antarctic sea sponge shows promise as a potential way to develop treatments against the fortified form of...
For Future Generations
More than 110 years since it was built on the spit of land that would become known as Hut Point, Robert Falcon Scott’s first expedition...
Little Pieces of Outer Space on the Frozen Continent
The Antarctic ice is home to stuff “not of this Earth.” Each year, scientists travel to remote sections of the frozen continent to look for...
