International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) 2006-2007
Antarctic science requires many different methods in the pursuit of knowledge about the seventh continent and its place in the global ecosystem. The deeply browned...
Mount Erebus Throws Fit
Mount Erebus is famous for its persistent but low-level activity as the world’s southernmost active volcano. But last year it threw one of its biggest...
BICEP Adds Muscle to South Pole Research
Imagine a universe that exploded into existence and expanded exponentially, faster than the speed of light. Cosmologists operating a new telescope at Amundsen-Scott South Pole...
South Pole an Ideal Spot for Astronomers
Searching for a minute change in microwave radiation that has traveled across space for some 14 billion years requires not only state-of-the-art equipment, such as...
South Pole Telescope (SPT) Construction
When cosmologists – astronomers who study the origin and structure of the entire universe – must try to explain their work to laymen, they sometimes...
Eye on the Past
John Carlstrom has taken some pleasure from stirring up things around the South Pole this summer during construction of the South Pole Telescope. “This thing’s...
Extinct Hunt
As a geologist who studies paleoclimate, Brenda Hall generally uses glaciers to help her reconstruct climate change through history. But the researcher and three members...
Antarctic Mold at East Base
Microbiologists from the University of Minnesota are still learning just how hardy several recently discovered species of molds are as part of an effort to...
Norway, U.S. Team Up for International Polar Year (IPY) Traverse
Even after 50 years of continuous research across Antarctica by scientists from countries around the world, there are still parts of the icy continent that...
ANDRILL Returns
One of the premiere projects of the International Polar Year (IPY), ANDRILL is a $30 million geological time machine. Using a specialized rig adapted for...
