Cold Cargo
It’s the classic story of trying to build a better mousetrap. In this case, the invention has nothing to do with catching rodents but capturing...
Month : December 2022
Rolling Back the Clock
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., is rolling back the clock on the satellite record for tracking sea ice in the...
Midwinter 2011
Antarctica’s most revered holiday was celebrated around the continent today. June 21, 2011 (local time), marks the winter solstice, the shortest ‘day’ of the year...
Containing Contamination
Time is ever so slowly eating away at the bad habits of the past. A decade-long environmental monitoring program at McMurdo Station is showing that...
Fleeting Thoughts
Dr. Steven Untracht is the physician at Palmer Station for the austral winter in Antarctica. When not attending to his duties, the station surgeon spends...
Temperatures Rise in the Fall
A new study in the Journal of Climate suggests widespread warming across the Antarctic Peninsula during the fall is being influenced by atmospheric circulation patterns...
Winter Work Order
Most of the big science at the South Pole Station goes on year-round. But other research takes advantage of the darkness of the winter sky...
Return to Boom Times?
The Adelie penguin boomtown known as Cape Royds went bust in the 2000s. Now there are signs that a recovery is under way. The volcanic...
Crowning Achievement
The iconic South Pole Station Dome may be gone but it’s not forgotten. And thanks to the efforts of three men, it never will be,...
Type C Personality
If Captain Ahab of Moby Dick literary fame had been a scientist, it might have been an orca and not a sperm whale that drove...
