It’s Just Physics
“It’s just physics.” That’s the mantra coming from Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Penn State and one of the world’s leading experts in...
Month : February 2023
A Year in the Life
Anthony Powell’s normal day job is as a satellite communications engineer at McMurdo Station. He’s on his sixth straight austral winter, monitoring and maintaining the...
Getting into the Flow
Byrd Glacier, a massive river of ice that cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains and drains the East Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf,...
Escape of a Lifetime
Nancy Farrell figured she would stick around the U.S. Antarctic Program for maybe five years before moving on to something new in her life. She’s...
From the Field: LARISSA Revisited
A team of glaciologists associated with the multidisciplinary LARISSA project is headed back to the Antarctic Peninsula this month to repair equipment left on several...
World of Imagination
Children’s author Nancy Etchemendy, known for spinning science fiction and horror tales for young adults, hopes to tell the story of an Antarctic science expedition...
Race to the End
It was one of the great rivalries of the 20th century, a sort of heavyweight matchup of the day’s great polar explorers: Roald Amundsen and...
We want to rock
You’re alone for the next eight months of the year at the bottom of the world. What do you do to keep busy? You rock...
Bridging the Gap
Scientists returned to the skies above Antarctica in October for the second year of NASA’s Operation IceBridge. The airborne mission monitors the region’s changing sea...
A good book
No larger than a classroom, the Goldthwait Polar Library contains more than 12,000 titles about the polar regions....
