Christchurch Earthquake
Most people have seen the pictures of the crumpled Christchurch Cathedral or watched the video of a woman plucked from the roof of a collapsed...
Month : December 2022
Life Under the Ice
It’s life. But is it life as we know it? That question will be answered in the months ahead, but it appears that the first...
Trucked In
Talk about a road trip. Three semi-trailer trucks, each pulling 20-foot-long refrigeration containers, rolled into Denver this month after a 24-hour trip across the southwest...
In the Pits
Snow retrieved from a pit dug at the South Pole is helping scientists reconstruct past climactic cycles. Particles from the upper atmosphere trapped in a...
Getting a Lift
Racing against the wind is never a good bet in Antarctica. But for a team with NASA doing a major upgrade to a 10-meter antenna...
Roving Around Erebus
Twenty years after an arachnid-shaped robot stalled out on its descent into the noxious crater of an Antarctic volcano, an altogether different rover could be...
CTAM 2010-11
Geologists, paleontologists, glaciologists and dozens of other researchers returned once more to the central Transantarctic Mountains to study a host of scientific mysteries, from the...
Under the Covers
Scientists revealed what lies underneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheets in unprecedented detail in a new map that was published in the open-access journal The Cryosphere...
Mountain Life
The central Transantarctic Mountains field camp may have been the busiest place south of McMurdo Station during the 2010-11 field season. Scores of scientists made...
Spicing It Up
Glaciologists plan to SPICE things up at the South Pole. The South Pole Ice Core (SPICE) project aims to retrieve an ice core 1,500 meters...
