Night Shift
McMurdo Station is busier than Grand Central Station during the austral summer, when hundreds of scientists pass through the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program...
Month : December 2022
A Weighty Problem
Researchers recently reported a connection between local weather conditions and the weight of Adelie penguin chicks in an article in Marine Ecology Progress Series, a...
Road Less Traveled
New Zealand members of the Joint Antarctic Search and Rescue Team (JASART) are checking the thickness of sea ice en route to Cape Evans from...
Moon over McMurdo
The interface between water and ice on the underside of the McMurdo Ice Shelf is where Antarctica and Europa intersect in terms of how conditions...
On-Time Arrival
The first plane to touch down at McMurdo Station’s Pegasus Airfield in several months landed on Aug. 15 (local time), ending the winter isolation for...
Reaching Out
Memphis is a long way from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, but Alex Eilers has brought thousands of students, teachers and others along on an expedition...
A Cloudy Day
The sun illuminates nacreous clouds as it peeks above the horizon on August 20 near McMurdo Station, a day after the first sunrise since April...
Salt Spray
A team of atmospheric scientists, led by Lars Kalnajs at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Peter DeCarlo at Drexel University, are making some...
