That’s a Wrap
For the second straight season the scientific program known as ANDRILL enjoyed unprecedented success, extracting a sediment core 1,138.54 meters below the seafloor with a...
CReSIS to Mold New Models
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is a National Science Foundation-funded Science and Technology Center. CReSIS pulls together some of the top...
Phone Home
Mike Comberiate and his team of engineers and students are using a small robotic vehicle to test a host of systems that NASA may use...
Ocean Acidification
A leading expert in ocean acidification from California State University San Marcos, Victoria Fabry is the principal investigator for a team of scientists in Antarctica...
Taking Shelter
Quick deployment is one of the key components that NASA is after for a space habitat that will shelter astronauts on long-term missions to the...
Plumbing Erebus
To look deep inside an Antarctic volcano, scientist Phil Kyle and his team have to use a little force. Researchers spent more than three months...
Halfway Done
Construction of the world’s largest, and perhaps most unique, telescope is 50 percent complete. Drillers deployed the 18th string of digital sensors for the IceCube...
SPT Upgrades Sensors
The South Pole Telescope was constructed during the 2006-07 austral summer. The following winter, the telescope achieved what scientists call “first light” (meaning, it worked),...
After the Icebergs
A couple of years ago, life at Cape Royds for the world’s most southerly Adélie penguin colony looked dire. But after two successful reproductive seasons,...
Getting Warmer
Soon we may have to call it the Subantarctic Peninsula. Scientists who monitor the ecosystem at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula say a...
