Tip of the Tongue
A large iceberg broke off from the Erebus Ice Tongue at the end of February. The iceberg is currently floating in McMurdo Sound where the...
Month : December 2022
Shutting the Door
A new paper in the prestigious journal Nature suggests that 34 million years decreasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere initiated the glaciation of...
Developing New Perspectives
Larissa Min’s family is originally from Korea. She was born in Brazil. At age 12, her family migrated from South America to the United States....
A Mouthful
The first study to characterize the feeding behavior of minke whales in the Antarctic has found that they can forage just below sea ice –...
Up, Up and Away
It took an extra four days, but McMurdo Station closed the doors on the 2012-13 summer field season on March 9, 2013 when a New...
Split the Difference
A sea star is a sea star is a sea star. Right? The answer to that question is not particularly straightforward, particularly when attempting to...
Docked
The marine-based Palmer Station, located off the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, relies on Zodiacs for scientific work around the region. The inflatable boats...
High-Water Mark
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing support to help launch a $21 million interdisciplinary initiative involving 11 institutions across the United States to study...
Good Night
The sun set at the South Pole Station on March 23 at 2:31 a.m. for the next six months. It will return on Sept. 21,...
Life Among the Emperors
From making the first measurements of the diving depth of an emperor penguin in the 1960s to tracking their colonies with satellites, Gerald Kooyman’s long...
