Icy Conditions
Preparing McMurdo Station for the summer field season in Antarctica is never an easy task. But this year has been a real battle with the...
Month : December 2022
Seeing the Light
Researchers have documented the first signs of significant permafrost melt in Antarctica from a small valley where an exposed cliff face contains ice from the...
New Arrivals
Two Basler BT-67 aircraft landed at the South Pole Station on Oct. 17, ending about eight months of winter isolation for 49 scientists and support...
Hitting a New High
The wild winter weather continued at the South Pole through June, as more temperature and wind records fell as the research station passed the midwinter...
On Thin Ice
The U.S. Antarctic Program builds a temporary airfield on the sea ice in McMurdo Sound every year for use by both ski-equipped and wheeled aircraft...
Earth-Shaking Research
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin are conducting a study in the New Zealand city of Christchurch with the hope of learning how...
Centennial Celebration
One hundred years after the epic race between explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott to reach the South Pole first, adventurers and politicians are expected...
An Early Defrost
New research published in the prestigious journal Nature suggests that the last ice age in West Antarctica ended several thousand years earlier than previously thought....
Subra Suresh on the Ice
Subra Suresh, the director of the National Science Foundation, visited U.S. Antarctic Program stations and field camps during a five-day visit in November, accompanied by...
