Underwater Forests of Antarctica
There are mighty forests in Antarctica. Just don’t expect to see them poking through the ice and snow. The forests are underwater, composed of several...
Month : February 2023
Innovations Bristle with Possibilities
As George Blaisdell looks around Antarctica, he does not see so much what is here as what might be. As operations manager in the Office...
Lasting Experience
Eugene Domack was about six hours away from leaving Chile and returning to his family after working more than two months in Antarctica when the...
Couriers Keep the Mail Moving
Working as a courier at McMurdo Station transforms all of town into a circuit workout. Get out of the truck. Walk into the building. Climb...
Changing Course
Extreme sea ice conditions and one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes bookended a two-month science expedition to the Antarctica earlier this year, ensuring few...
South Pole Fire School
It’s a mild September day in Arvada, CO, a suburb west of Denver, with bluebird, cloudless skies. But the firefighter trainees are perspiring heavily in...
Last Hurrah
It’s the biggest celebration for the year that still hasn’t ended more than three years after it began. This month more than 2,000 scientists and...
Preserving Pole’s Past
Today’s South Pole is only the latest incarnation in a steady stream of historical watersheds. Countless reminders of past glories sit in glass displays and...
Antarctic beachcombing
Alexander Simms and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University recently returned from the beach, but they don’t have the tans to show for it....
Cheerio and All That
A U.S. scientist writes about his red beans-and-toast experiences aboard the HMS Endurance as a guest of the British Antarctic Survey during a science cruise...
