Science Hits the Road
The polar regions and those who have devoted their careers to studying them are stars in their own traveling road show, POLAR-PALOOZA. A public education...
Breaking New Ground
It doesn’t get any better than the McMurdo Dry Valleys if you want to get at the deep roots of a volcano’s magma system, to...
Looking at New Dimensions
A chance meeting between a digital cartography whiz and a geologist in need of a three-dimensional way to represent the McMurdo Dry Valleys has spawned...
Balloons Away
One of three long-duration balloon experiments launched on the ice shelf near McMurdo Station at the end of December made an encore appearance during its...
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...
