Blue Ribbon Panel
Government, business and academic leaders spent the first week of December visiting the research facilities and field camps of the U.S. Antarctic Program as part...
Month : December 2022
Below the Surface
Scientists have revealed for the first time the dynamics that are causing an ice shelf in West Antarctica to melt from underneath. The results were...
Contract Award
The National Science Foundation has awarded a multiyear contract to Lockheed Martin for logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic Program. Lockheed will begin providing logistical...
New Mode of Discovery
Scientists using the South Pole Telescope became the first team to detect a long-predicted polarization pattern in the afterglow of the Big Bang. The detection...
A Somber Salute
A large but somewhat somber crowd gathered outside of the South Pole Station on Jan. 17, 2012, to pay tribute to Briton Robert Falcon Scott...
Opposite Ends
When solar wind lashes the Earth’s upper atmosphere, the polar regions react with a brilliant light show known as auroras. But do the ends of...
The Next Generation
A century ago, Briton Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen raced to be the first people to reach the geographic South Pole, one of...
Ongoing Experiment
The McMurdo Dry Valleys, a polar desert slightly larger than Rhode Island, has been the subject of a 20-year-long study. Scientists on the McMurdo Long...
Preserving the Past
The Antarctic Heritage Trust is a New Zealand-based nonprofit organization devoted to conserving the historic structures built during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration at...
Increasing Coverage
Antarctic sea ice extent reached a new record high maximum last month, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. In...
