Roosevelt Island
It’s been about a dozen years since Howard Conway and colleagues visited Antarctica’s Roosevelt Island to make measurements that allowed them to estimate the deglaciation...
Month : February 2023
NSF Seeks $6.85 Billion for FY09
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking to boost its 2009 fiscal year (FY) budget by about 13 percent over the current budget year, with...
Maximum Extent
New research out of the Georgia Institute of Technology offers an explanation as to why sea ice in Antarctica is growing while it continues to...
Cooking in the Cold
Michele Gentille’s stories conjure images of European chateaus and cavernous wine cellars, with her life like a cross between a Conde Naste travel article and...
Hugging the Shore
Scientists trolling the shallow waters near Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula found significantly higher krill biomass density in coastal areas than in deeper, offshore...
Ready to Roll
This year’s mission for the South Pole Traverse team was to re-establish the 1,600-kilometer-long route between McMurdo and South Pole stations, conducting maintenance along the...
Southern Exposure
A sudden cold snap in the northern hemisphere about 13,000 years ago, shortly after the end of the last ice age, apparently never touched Antarctica....
Spring Cleaning
The disappearance of thousands of tons of stuff — from earplugs to engines — is a part of a deliberate plan to remove excess and...
Data Download
An airborne mission to observe changes in the Earth’s polar regions is making sure the data will make it to researches as quickly as possible....
Practically Home
The opportunity to recover his collection of chamber music that he left in Antarctica in the 1950’s never presented itself, despite 15 trips to the...
