Talking Science with the General Public
Scientists spent a long weekend in August learning how not to talk like a scientist. Educators from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and...
MacOps, MacOps
McMurdo Communications Operations, better known as MacOps, is the nerve center for radio traffic between the research station and field parties as close as the...
Life In A Cryoconite Hole
Diverse ecosystems that teem with life thrive just below the surface of many Antarctic glaciers. Small, frozen holes full of liquid water and microorganisms entombed...
Crossing the Gender Gap
Katy House thought she would live a fairly conventional life and be married with children at her age. Instead, at 27, she is the first...
The South Pole Telescope’s New Eyes
The telescope at the bottom of the planet spent winter calibrating and collecting data after its vision enhancement last summer. Researchers installed a new camera...
A Holiday to Remember
My father, Wesley B. Harding, came to Antarctica a little more than 50 years ago to install an early experiment to study cosmic rays from...
Quantifying Snowfall
Snow in some form or another blankets almost all Antarctica, but measuring exactly how much snow falls from the sky is tricky. A team of...
Breaking Through
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star reached McMurdo Station on Jan. 18 for a one-day port call before returning to McMurdo Sound to continue...
Circumnavigating the Pole Hole
In January, researchers went for a more than 750-kilometer drive around the South Pole. The team followed the arc of the 88th parallel for a...
Big Load
The cargo vessel chartered to resupply two of the National Science Foundation’s research stations in Antarctica seems up to the task based on name alone....
