Core of Drilling
Need an ice core in an area where you may drill through bits of sand and rock? Better use a Koci Drill. Doing a little...
Month : February 2023
Extreme Outreach
Four Boulder, Colo., graduate students will go to extremes this year when they head to Antarctica for a month of field research. Their hope is...
State of the Antarctic
A week before world leaders sat down for a major climate conference in Copenhagen this month, an international scientific body released the first comprehensive report...
Dress Rehearsal
Scientists conducting a “dress rehearsal” for deployment of an instrument through an ice shelf into the ocean below learned quite a bit about the system...
Record Flight
An experiment to make some of the first sustained measurements of atmospheric and oceanic conditions surrounding a polynya in Antarctica yielded not only some interesting...
Pole Turns 50
A mere 20 days after it was demonstrated that an airplane could land and take off from the South Pole, a small team of men...
Not Much Bugs Belgica
The wingless fly known as Belgica antarctica lives only on the Antarctic Peninsula. You can freeze it or nearly suck away all its moisture, and...
The Old Antarctic Explorer’s Association Wants You
Its membership includes a scientist who first visited Antarctica nearly 60 years ago and officials from the National Science Foundation. The Old Antarctic Explorer’s Association...
Climate Refuge
Life on Earth hit a particularly rough patch about 250 million years ago, when most organisms perished in a mass extinction event. Some vertebrate species...
Road Less Traveled Paved with Sand and Snow
My travels in the last couple of years have taken me from the sand and heat of Mesopotamia to the ice and cold of Antarctica....
