http://www.usap.gov/ News items and articles displayed on the United States Antarctic Program web site. Thu, 16 May 2013 17:25:35 GMT http://www.usap.gov/contentHandler.cfm?id=1814 en-us webmaster@usap.gov Copyright 2013, United States Antarctic Program A massive telescope in the Antarctic ice reports the detection of 28 extremely high-energy neutrinos that might have their origin in cosmic sources.... News Thu, 16 May 2013 17:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-icecubedrillcamp-lg.jpg In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise... News Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-uwwaiscore-lg.jpg The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a summary response to the recommendations of an external panel of experts that was charged with advising the agency on how to improve and streamline its logistical capabilities to more efficiently support world-class Antarctic science in coming decades... News Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-blueribbonresponse-lg.jpg Distant, dust-filled galaxies were bursting with newborn stars much earlier in cosmic history than previously thought, according to newly published research... News Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-almagraphic-lg.jpg From the ground, air and space, CReSIS researchers study disappearing ice and the potential for sea level rise ... News Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-cresis-lg.jpg A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past climate and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that extends back 68,000 years... News Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-voighticecore-lg.jpg According to a Johns Hopkins earth scientist, the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has caused changes in the way that waters in those southern oceans mix--a situation that has the potential to alter the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and eventually could have an impact on global climate change.... News Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-ozonehole-lg.jpg Officials with the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and Antarctica New Zealand have jointly decided to recall search-and-rescue teams from the site of an Antarctic aircraft crash after examination of the plane indicated that it would be unsafe at this point to further disturb the wreckage... News Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-twinotterrefuel-lg.jpg Statement by Kelly K. Falkner, director of NSF's Division of Polar Programs ... News Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-canadianmemorial-lg.jpg In a first-of-its-kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples... News Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-wissardcam-lg.jpg The wreckage of a Twin Otter aircraft that was reported missing earlier this week in Antarctica has been found in a remote and mountainous area of the continent ... News Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-ctamtwinotter-lg.jpg Officials with the U.S. Antarctic Program are cooperating with their Italian and New Zealand counterparts, as well as the Rescue Coordination Centre in Wellington, NZ, in a search-and-rescue effort to locate a propeller-driven aircraft that is believed to have crashed in a remote and mountainous part of Antarctica ... News Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-missingtwinotter-lg.jpg The final push by a team of U.S. scientists to explore a lake nearly a kilometer below the ice sheet is about to begin. Their destination: subglacial Lake Whillans, a liquid body of water trapped under about 800 meters of ice. Their mission: To make some of the first explorations of a subglacial ecosystem ... News Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-wissarddrill-lg.jpg A new study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) finds that the western part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is experiencing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought ... News Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-byrdwarming-lg.jpg Three very large-scale, National Science Foundation-funded Antarctic science projects have recently each reached important technological milestones that will advance cutting-edge research ... News Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-pineislandcamp-lg.jpg A team of scientists and drilling engineers performed the Antarctic equivalent of pulling a rabbit out of the hat deep under the ice sheet. They reentered a 3,405-meter-deep borehole and collected ice along a parallel vertical path. It is the first time anyone has recovered a replicate ice core in this manner ... News Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-waisborehole-lg.jpg A National Science Foundation-funded research team working on the slopes of the world's southernmost active volcano appears to have found the remains of a camp used by explorers of the so-called "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration ... News Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-priestlecamp-lg.jpg NSF-funded findings related to microbe metabolism could have significance for the search for life in other worlds ... News Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-lakevidaicecore-lg.jpg The planet's two largest ice sheets have been losing ice faster during the past decade, causing widespread confusion and concern. A new international study provides a firmer read on the state of continental ice sheets and how much they are contributing to sea-level rise ... News Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-greenlandicesheet-lg.jpg The biggest research program of the post-International Polar Year (IPY) era for the U.S. Antarctic Program, WISSARD brings together more than a dozen principal investigators to delve into a subglacial lake buried nearly a kilometer below the ice sheet ... News Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-AntSun_whallens-lg.jpg New data from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) indicate that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected ... News Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-AntSun_sptauroras-lg.jpg Late August storms around McMurdo Station delayed the first U.S. Antarctic Program flights to Antarctica since March, but the last of six planned flights finally took place on Aug. 31 (local time), officially ending the winter fly-in period called Winfly ... News Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-AntSun_C17disembark-lg.jpg A National Science Foundation-funded radio telescope in Antarctica has found an extraordinary galaxy cluster that may force astronomers to rethink how galaxy clusters and the galaxies that inhabit them evolve ... News Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-SPTgalaxycluster-lg.jpg On July 23, 2012, the 12-member U.S. Antarctic Program Blue Ribbon Panel, commissioned by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) released their report ... News Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-blueribbon-lg.jpg National Science Foundation (NSF) officials have set in motion the necessary steps to airlift a patient from McMurdo Station. The patient's condition may require treatment beyond what can be provided at the station's medical facility ... News Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:00:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-medevac8912-lg.jpg Intense warm climate intervals have occurred in the Arctic over the past 2.8 million years and correspond closely with times when parts of Antarctica were also ice-free and warm ... News Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-LakeE-Drill-lg.jpg Ancient Antarctica was warmer and wetter than previously suspected, enough to support vegetation along its edges, according to a new study published in the 17 June issue of Nature Geoscience ... News Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-ANDRILL-Camp-lg.jpg In 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf shattered in spectacular fashion. A decade later, a multidisciplinary team of scientists return to the region to understand the changes wrought by its disappearance... News Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_larissaBrendanReilly-lg.jpg A new study using satellite mapping technology reveals there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought... News Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-emperorcensus-lg.jpg Analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station recently provided new insight into the production of cosmic rays... News Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-icecubeRays-lg.jpg U.S. Antarctic Program research stations across Antarctica marked the beginning of the end of winter this week. The winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere fell on June 20, a traditional day of celebration for those spending the winter in Antarctica ... News Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-McM-Midwinter-2012-lg.jpg Karl Erb prepares to step down as the longest-serving director of the NSF Office of Polar Programs... News Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-erbretires-lg.jpg The South Pole Telescope (SPT), the largest such instrument ever installed at the station, completed its scan of 2,500-square degrees of night sky at the end of the 2011 winter.... News Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_sptConstruction-lg.jpg NSF partners with international team to gather new information on hidden environments and past climate conditions in Antarctica... News Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-skyTEM-lg.jpg USAP research vessel transports victims of ship fire to safety... News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_rescueZodiac-lg.jpg NSF picks Lockheed Martin to lead logistical support for the USAP... News Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_mcmHeloTown-lg.jpg Norwegian prime minister visits bottom of the world to honor Amundsen... News Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:31:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_poleNorwgnCrmnyPM-lg.jpg The National Science Foundation (NSF) revised and updated its award-winning website: "U.S. South Pole Station: Supporting Science" ... News Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:31:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-nsfSPSR2011-lg.jpg NSF director makes first visit to USAP facilities in Antarctica ... News Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:31:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_subraSuresh-lg.jpg Floating dock from McMurdo Station found locked in sea ice ... News Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:31:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_icePierShovel-lg.jpg National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers may have at last answered a 50 year-old conundrum ... News Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:31:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-gamburtsevmtns-lg.jpg International team to drill beneath massive Antarctic ice shelf ... News Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-PIGconvoy-lg.jpg The devastating earthquakes that struck New Zealand and Japan earlier this year demonstrated that scientists still have much to learn about these catastrophic events ... News Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_quakeAerial-lg.jpg Researchers brave bone chilling cold to solve geologic mysteries ... News Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:25:35 GMT View More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_GoodgeVideo-lg.jpg A NASA scientist and her colleagues were able to observe for the first time the power of an earthquake and tsunami to break off large icebergs a hemisphere away ... News Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-tsunamibergs-lg.jpg Two new UC Irvine papers reach markedly different conclusions about why methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, unexpectedly leveled off near the end of the 20th century ... News Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-irvinestudies-lg.jpg At the 18th annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Initiative workshop ... News Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_waisWorkshopIceEdge-lg.jpg A large crack has been spotted in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, threatening to break loose ... News Tue, 1 Nov 2011 15:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_pigCrack-lg.jpg Researchers at NOAA announced late last month that the ozone hole that appears over Antarctica every spring in the Southern Hemisphere may start showing signs of recovery ... News Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_cryoBalloon-lg.jpg An examination of the first direct and detailed climate record from the continental shelves surrounding Antarctica reveals that the last remnant of Antarctic vegetation existed in a tundra landscape on the continent's northern peninsula about 12 million years ago ... News Fri, 6 Jul 2011 14:03:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-fossilpollen-lg.jpg Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole ... News Fri, 1 Jul 2011 15:42:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-pineislandglacier-lg.jpg The long winter for those hunkered down at McMurdo Station is finally over ... News Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:25:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_c17FirstFlight11-12-lg.jpg Air force delivers needed supplies to South Pole using night-vision goggles ... News Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:45:35 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_airDropC17Inside-lg.jpg The National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs is making available a new full-color, extensively illustrated booklet that highlights the variety of cutting-edge science conducted in Antarctica ... News Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:34:51 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-nsfbooklet-lg.jpg Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province Project (AGAP) scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica reveal new findings which turn common perceptions of glacial formation upside down... News Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:32:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_agapFlags-lg.jpg Berserk expedition were flown on a U.S. Air Force transport...]]> News Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:22:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_C17Pegaus2-lg.jpg The sea ice in McMurdo Sound has broken up to an extent not seen since 1998... News Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:22:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_mcmIceBreak-lg.jpg Cotton Glacier stream offers insight into evolution of dissolved organic matter... News Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:22:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_cottonStream-lg.jpg One of the busiest field seasons in recent memory for the U.S. Antarctic Program ended at McMurdo Station on March 5th ... News Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:15:46 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-c130atMcM-lg.jpg The U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) has drilled and recovered its longest ice core to date from the polar regions, officially hitting 3,331 meters ... News Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:22:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_waisRebecca-lg.jpg Antarctica's IceCube is among the most ambitious scientific construction projects ever attempted... News Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-IceCube_SoutPole_USAP_news-lg.jpg Dr. Subra Suresh, Director of the National Science Foundation comments on the earthquake and tsunamis in Japan late last week and the earthquake in New Zealand last month ... News Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:32:31 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-sureshportrait-lg.jpg Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition (ASPIRE) Combines Research and Education... News Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-NBP_Thumbnail_nearPalmerStation-lg.jpg The collaborative agreement covers the cost of operating the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located in the ice under the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station... News Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-IceCubeDOM_1-lg.jpg U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a special visit to the U.S. and New Zealand Antarctic programs in Christchurch on Nov. 5 during a two-week diplomatic tour through Asia and the Pacific. ... News Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_hillClinton-lg.jpg Searching below the surface of Antarctica for the mysterious neutrino ... News Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-icecube1010-lg.jpg A professor from Scripps Institution of Oceanography who largely set the standard for the study of Antarctic marine ecology in the 1960s heads back to the Ice ... News Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-dayton2010-lg.jpg The loneliness of the long-distance winter-over at the South Pole Station is finally over. Two Basler BT-67 aircraft landed at the U.S. Antarctic Program's southernmost research base on Oct. 16 (local time), ending about eight months of isolation for the 47 scientists and support personnel spending the winter ... News Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-usapNews_poleFirstBasler-lg.jpg An Australian Antarctic Division Airbus A319 landed at McMurdo Station on September 23, officially kicking off the summer field season for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) ... News Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-mainbody2010-lg.jpg Randall Davis, Lee Fuiman and Terrie Williams will arrive in Antarctica a bit early this season in order to track seal predation behavior through the dark of Antarctica ... News Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:45:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-weddelwinter-lg.jpg Helen Amanda Fricker was recently recognized for her achievements in polar science when she was awarded the 2010 Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica ... News Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:14:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-fricker2010-lg.jpg Scientists from around the country spent time this summer at the National Ice Core Laboratory helping to catalog, cut, and ship pieces of ice taken from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) ... News Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:37:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-niclwaiscores-lg.jpg Flights for the 2010 Winfly season are scheduled to arrive a week early using night-vision goggles ... News Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:31:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-2010winfly-lg.jpg NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) 1 supported important research and medical missions in Antarctica for more than a decade ... News Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:44:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-tdrs1-lg.jpg Instruments on a massive berg help pinpoint previously unreported undersea ridge ... News Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:44:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-shoalbreach-lg.jpg The first U.S. Antarctic Program flight to Antarctica landed safely at Pegasus airfield near McMurdo Station on August 15, 2010, ushering in the 2010 Winter Fly-in (Winfly) season. ... News Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:31:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-2010firstflight-lg.jpg A robotic submarine found an important clue as to why one of West Antarctica's key glaciers is draining more ice toward the sea in recent years ... News Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:44:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-waissub-lg.jpg Hugh Ducklow and his colleagues travel the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula every January studying climate change in one of the world's fastest warming regions ... News Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:44:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-lterac9deploy-lg.jpg Scientists from Louisiana State University look for signs of microbial life in Antarctica's glaciers ... News Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:44:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-LSUmicrobial-lg.jpg Researchers with the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) talk about international collaboration and new discoveries ... News Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:22:00 GMT View Video http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-360andrill-lg.jpg The South Pole Dome, the U.S. Antarctic Program's most iconic research station, is coming down 35 years after it was officially dedicated in January 1975 ... News Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:50:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-domedeconstruction-lg.jpg Nathaniel B. Palmer encountered unusually thick sea ice as it attempted to push south along the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula causing a change in tactic for scientists planning to study the region to learn more about climate change ...]]> News Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:19:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-nbplarissa-lg.jpg June 21, the winter solstice, marks the midpoint of the long, dark Antarctic night and is traditionally celebrated as a holiday ... News Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:44:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-mcm-mwg2010-lg.jpg Watch a video podcast that shows what it's like to live more than 900 miles from McMurdo Station in West Antarctica ... News Wed, 26 May 2010 10:48:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-byrdcamp-lg.jpg The average temperature at the South Pole was a bone-chilling minus 47.9 degrees Celsius (minus 54.2 Fahrenheit) in 2009. It was also the warmest year on record since 1957, when temperature records began at South Pole ... News Mon, 10 May 2010 13:56:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-sptemprecord-lg.jpg Researchers brave rough seas and dodge icebergs to retrieve sediment cores that tell tales of early climates ... News Tue, 4 May 2010 11:06:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-JOIDES-lg.jpg Before world leaders met for the major climate conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, an international scientific body released the first comprehensive report on the current state of Antarctica�s climate and its relationship to the rest of the globe ... News Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:19:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-scarreport-lg.jpg In 1969, a handful of women arrived in Antarctica for the first time; over the following decades, hundreds of women flooded the USAP working their way into positions of authority, from running research stations to leading major science expeditions ... News Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:32:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-womenonice-lg.jpg Two Antarctic research bases have completed construction of a new wind farm; the United States and New Zealand expect the new turbines to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels ... News Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:38:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-windfarm-lg.jpg A team of British and American scientists has successfully deployed an autonomous robot submarine on six missions beneath an Antarctic ice shelf using sonar scanners to map the seabed and the underside of the ice as it juts out over the sea ... News Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/news_NBPdeploy-lg.jpg A five-nation scientific team has published new evidence that even a slight rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, one of the gases that drives global warming, affects the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) ... News Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/news_AndrillDemo-lg.jpg Scientists have long established that the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming spots on Earth. New research using detailed satellite data indicates that the changing climate is affecting not just the penguins at the apex of the food chain, but simultaneously the microscopic life that is the base of the ecosystem ... News Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/news_clmtChgChart-lg.jpg Researchers with the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) found evidence including fossils of marine algae and pollen of woody plants that indicates a remarkably warm period in Antarctica 15.7 million years ago ... News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-warmper-lg.jpg NASA begins a series of flights October 15, 2009 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets. The flights are part of a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at Earth's polar regions ... News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-nasasurvey-lg.jpg The LARsen Ice Shelf System project is an interdisciplinary program to study as many facets of an ice shelf ecosystem as possible following the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002 ... News Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-larissa-lg.jpg An extinct southern elephant seal colony that once existed in huge numbers along sandy and rocky beaches in Antarctica has provided new insight into how quickly a species can respond to the emergence of a new habitat as climate changes and just as quickly disappear ... News Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-sealcolony-lg.jpg Mainbody flights started arriving at McMurdo Station on October 3 and will continue throughout the Antarctic summer. The term "mainbody" refers to the summer migration of National Science Foundation support and research personnel to the station on Ross Island ... News Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:56:03 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-mainbody09-lg.jpg When it's completed in 2011, the South Pole neutrino observatory, IceCube, promises to open a new scientific window on colliding galaxies and black holes. In the meantime, it's producing some decidedly down-to-earth results for Wisconsin ... News Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/news_iceCube-WisMade-lg.jpg WinFly, between Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica to carry people and supplies in preparation for the 2009-10 austral summer season ...]]> News Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/rss-winfly-lg.jpg New science data communications capability enables the NSF to share exciting results of its science programs with the public ... News Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/news_DataCommSat-lg.jpg The Maryland Science Center in Baltimore is the focal point of a range of public events April 4 and 5 that highlight federally funded Arctic and Antarctic research programs. The events are being held in conjunction with a meeting on the international treaty, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first signing of the treaty. This is also the first time in 30 years the treaty parties have met in the U.S. ... News Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/news_MrylndSciCtr-lg.jpg The Arctic and Antarctic are the world's great "natural laboratories," where for decades scientists have studied the extremes of life: from fish with anti-freeze for blood, to microbes that can survive six months of intense cold and total darkness; from the birth of the universe, to an ocean that we know less about than the surface of the moon. More recently, the polar regions serve as harbingers of climate change and sites for studying early effects first-hand ... News Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/nsf-research-teaser-lg.jpg June 21, the winter solstice, marks the midpoint of the long dark antarctic night and is traditionally celebrated as a holiday ... News Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/news/images/SP_MWG-2009-flash.jpg A complicated international air operation coordinated by the USAP has successfully evacuated a badly injured employee of the Australian Antarctic Division ... News Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-lc130evac-lg.jpg Almost single-handedly, Martin Pomerantz recognized the value of one of the world's most remote and inhospitable places as an ideal place to study the physical origin of the Universe and other complex astrophysical phenomena ... News Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-mapo-lg.jpg A U.S.-led, multinational team of scientists from six nations will pierce the mysteries of one of the globe's last major unexplored places this month ... News Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-agaplogo-lg.jpg Using night vision goggles, A C-17 Globemaster III aircrew from McChord Air Force Base, Washington, performed the first known after-dark landing in Antarctica at McMurdo Station ... News Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-nightlanding-lg.jpg National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop ... News Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-dry_valleys1-lg.jpg A lone granite boulder found atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America ... News Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-fossils1-lg.jpg After enduring months on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years ... News Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-randerson-lg.jpg The NSF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have jointly achieved a new milestone in the almost 20-year history of scientific ballooning in Antarctica by launching and operating three long-duration sub-orbital flights within a single Southern-Hemisphere summer ... News Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-balloonrecord-lg.jpg The NSF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have jointly achieved a new milestone in the almost 20-year history of scientific ballooning in Antarctica by launching and operating three long-duration sub-orbital flights within a single Southern-Hemisphere summer ... News Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-adelie-lg.jpg British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his team tried to be the first party to reach the South Pole. While neither he nor his men survived, the scientific data he collected did, and scientists continue to rely on it today ... News Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-rfscott-lg.jpg Marine biologist Donal Manahan and biologist Deneb Karentz are studying the effects of rising temperatures on the larvae of fish, worms and sea urchins ... News Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-urchin-lg.jpg Scientists and support personnel talk about working at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, the construction of which was recently completed, capping a 12-year, $174-million NSF project ... News Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-spstation-lg.jpg NPR's Danny Zwerdling was at the South Pole in January 2008, reporting for the Climate Connections series ... News Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-spsflags-lg.jpg Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in a fast-warming region of Antarctica ... News Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-wilkins-lg.jpg The United States has dedicated a new scientific station at the geographic South Pole--the third since 1957--officially ushering in a new support system for sophisticated large-scale experiments in disciplines ranging from astrophysics to environmental chemistry and seismology ... News Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/rss-dedication-lg.jpg Two NSF-funded scientists, a U.S. Antarctic Program glaciologist, and a recipient of the national Medal of Science, receive the Lowell Thomas Award from the New York-based Explorers Club in recognition of their work ... News Tue, 9 oct 2007 16:01:01 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/palaisTh.jpg National Science Foundation-funded researcher Steven D. Emslie has devised a means to radiocarbon-date penguin remains that allows him to track the advance and retreat of Antarctic ice sheets over thousands of years ... News Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:01:01 GMT http://appserv02.uncw.edu/news/article.asp?ID=2167 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/adelie-penguins2.jpg For the first time in more than a century, scientists will visit Antarctica's Amundsen Sea. Five researchers and a high school science teacher will participate in the cruise, as part of the International Polar Year PolarTREC project ... News Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:01:01 GMT http://www.utsa.edu/today/2007/08/antarctica.cfm Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/utsa-researchers.jpg Ancient microorganisms, long frozen in glaciers, may return to life as the glaciers melt according to a study based on ice samples obtained by glaciologist David Marchant ... News Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:01:01 GMT http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=5898 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/dna.jpg Karl A. Erb, Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, has been named a Chevalier of the French National Order of Merit by the President of the Republic of France ... News Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:01:01 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/erb_th.jpg Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have begun to unravel a new story about the Antarctic Ice Sheet ... News Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:01:01 GMT http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1628 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/nbp_erebus_th.jpg Icebergs have long gripped the popular imagination, whether as relatively run-of-the-mill floating hazards that cause "unsinkable' ships to founder or, more recently, as enormous ... News Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:44:01 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109653 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_th.jpg Residents at Palmer Station, a year-round U.S. research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, removed old debris from the sea floor near the station in late April 2007, as a part of an annual Earth Day clean up ... News Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:20:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Teachers can now sign up for e-mail alerts immediately informing them when news about federally funded educational materials, classroom resources and information about opportunities to assist scientists in the field is added to the U.S. government's Web portal for the International Polar Year ... News Wed, 09 May 2007 09:56:03 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108984 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg The National Science Foundation (NSF) should work within the environmental framework of the international Antarctic Treaty system to develop a global scientific consensus on minimally disruptive ways to ... News Thu, 31 May 2007 09:20:00 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109587 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg People worldwide now have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to research and explore the Arctic and Antarctic regions through the International Polar Year ... News Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:40:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Just days before nations around the world were set to begin a coordinated global research campaign called the International Polar Year (IPY); scientists at the South Pole aimed a massive new telescope ... News Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:12:00 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Shipping and assembling some scientific instruments in Antarctica can cost millions of dollars, thanks in part to the logistics needed to get materials and personnel to the southernmost continent on Earth. But this year ... News Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:34:00 GMT http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=1122 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Join Ira and guests in this hour of Science Friday for a wintertime roundup of Antarctic science. We'll talk about the ... News Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:44:00 GMT http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Jan/hour2_010507.html Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Fifty years ago, on October 31, 1956, a tiny U.S. plane landed on the ice sheet at the southern end of the world, 9,300 feet above sea level. The historic landing was commemorated at a ceremony on October 31, 2006 ... News Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:01:01 GMT http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108147 Read the Story http://refresh.usap.gov/images/que-serasera.jpg The U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites team recently announced that one of the meteorites collected during the 2005-06 field season is a rare lunar meteorite, a type that has only been recovered once before ... News Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:01:01 GMT http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2006/09/19/new_lunar_meteorite_found_in_antarctica Find Out More http://refresh.usap.gov/images/lunar-meteorite.jpg In October 2005, iceberg B-15 broke into pieces, but scientists didn't know why. Researchers recently discovered the ice shift originated in the Gulf of Alaska, 8,300 miles north where a severe storm generated an ocean swell ... News Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061002.iceberg.shtml Read the Story http://refresh.usap.gov/images/B15-0101.jpg National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed Doug MacAyeal about the above-mentioned unusual example of the interconnectedness of the polar regions ... News Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6204027 Read the Story http://refresh.usap.gov/images/B15-Doug.jpg Twenty years ago, scientists learned human production of CFCs caused the ozone hole over Antarctica ... News Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107957 Read the Story http://www.usap.gov/images/ozonehole.jpg The Earth's warming temperatures are on track to melt the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets sooner than previously thought ... News Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/8/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=12389 Find Out More http://www.usap.gov/images/sea-levels.gif In the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of the massive ice sheets covering both Greenland and Antarctica, NASA scientists confirm climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth's largest storehouse of ice and snow ... News Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/ice_sheets.html Find Out More http://www.usap.gov/images/climate-warming.jpg The first-ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet concludes the ice sheet's mass has decreased significantly from 2002 to 2005 ... News Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-028 Find Out More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Ancient water bodies may contain ecosystems adapted to life beneath more than two miles of ice ... News Mon, 6 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2006/story01-26-06.html Find Out More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg After the spectacular 2002 collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, Eugene Domack, professor of geosciences at Hamilton College, led the first team of scientists into the area that had been undisturbed for nearly 10,000 years ... News Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.hamilton.edu/news/more_news/display.cfm?id=10651 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg As we flew into Punta Arenas Chile in the late afternoon a familiar landscape greeted us. The elongated hills, called drumlins, were carved by ... News Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.hamilton.edu/news/exp/Antarctica/2006/week1.html Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg During the week of March 20, iceberg C-16 moved rather quickly for a chunk of ice half the size of Wisconsin’s Dane County ... News Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/media/features/mar_29_06.htm Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Ice sheets covering both the Arctic and Antarctic could melt more quickly than expected this century, according to two studies that blend computer modeling with paleoclimate records ... News Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106798 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg During the recent austral summer, an international team of scientists and engineers took a major step forward in building a subglacial instrument known as IceCube ... News Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106781 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg The National Science Foundation (NSF) today launched a portal Web site to provide the general public and members of the news media with easy access to ... News Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105719 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg The formal search for Joshua Spillane, marine technician, ended at 1800 (EDT) on April 19. Joshua was discovered missing ... News Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:30:00 GMT http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=1026 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg You can count the variety of visible animals at McMurdo Station on one hand, so the idea that a new species would wander up to station might initially seem absurd ... News Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=1005 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Multi-tasking is one of those trendy words that has entered the lexicon in recent years. For someone like Neal Scheibe, it’s a job description ... News Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=998 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? Jaakko Putkonen is trying to unravel a similar mystery: If the soil in the McMurdo Dry Valleys moves but ... News Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:44:01 GMT http://www.usap.gov/usapgov/News/contentHandler.cfm?id=964 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Overcoming challenging ice conditions, a ship has safely delivered cargo needed to supply National Science Foundation research stations in Antarctica ... News Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:44:01 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg A four-year project to test the possibility of transporting scientific equipment and material by ground from a field station located on Antarctica's coastal edge to another deep in the continent's center has ended in success ... News Tue, 7 Feb 2006 18:44:01 GMT Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg By comparing the genetic code retrieved from 6,000-year-old remains of Adelie penguins in Antarctica with that of modern Adelies living at the same site as their ancestors ... News Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:44:03 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=104626 Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg Books and movies have created in the public mind vivid images of what dinosaur hunters do ... News Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:44:03 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/dino/index.jsp Read More http://www.usap.gov/images/gen_image_fl.jpg