May
25
2021
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Thwaites Glacier: Future
Scientists are using advanced computer models and simulations to calculate what the next century might hold for the melting Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, and how it might contribute to rising sea levels around the world.
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May
24
2021
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RESEARCH UPDATE: Ice core chemistry expands insight into sea ice variability
Recent work has been published by scientists from the University of Maine, giving insight into the seasonal and overall changes in sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere. Using ice core samples from the South Pole, researchers looked at the ice's chemistry, and particularly sea salt concentrations.
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May
10
2021
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RESEARCH UPDATE: The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica
The world is currently on track to exceed three degrees Celsius of global warming, and new NSF-funded research led by researchers at the UMass Amherst shows that such a scenario would drastically accelerate the pace of sea-level rise by 2100. However, the paper reveals that there still appears to be an opening for humankind to collectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent this mid-century acceleration in sea-level rise.
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Apr
23
2021
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NSF Blog: The Glacier of Greatest Concern
Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier is melting and its collapse could raise sea levels significantly around the world. Through the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council have teamed up to send scientists to the remote region by land, sea and air to study every aspect of the glacier.
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Apr
22
2021
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New Pier to be Constructed in 2021-2022 at Palmer Station
The National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to rebuild the pier at Palmer Station, its research facility on Anvers Island, Antarctica. The new pier will be more than three times larger than the current one, extending farther out from the station into deeper water to allow the mooring of larger ships.
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Apr
10
2021
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NOVA Explores Mt. Erebus Volcano
Most people associate Antarctica with snow and ice, but perhaps the most extreme geographic feature of the continent is Mount Erebus, one of Antarctica's two active volcanoes and the southernmost active volcano on Earth.
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Apr
10
2021
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UAVs Monitor Cape Crozier's Adelie Penguin Colonies
Antarctica's Cape Crozier is one of the biggest Adelie penguin colonies in the world. The colony is home to an estimated 600,000 penguins, but getting an accurate count is difficult.
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Apr
07
2021
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Icefin Robot: a small, under-ice, robotic oceanographer
Studying remote parts of Antarctica and its glaciers can require specialized equipment and innovative technologies. Georgia Tech researcher Dr. Britney Schmidt is the lead scientist for Icefin Robot: a small, under-ice, robotic oceanographer.
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Mar
31
2021
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Cruising for Mollusks
Scientists are going to the ends of the Earth to discover all they can about an obscure group of sparkly, worm-like mollusks. In October, researchers sailed from California to Antarctica searching for aplacophorans, a diverse group of poorly understood distant sea slug cousins.
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Mar
30
2021
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Black Hole photographed in Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, has recently released a new view of the first-ever photographed black hole from 2019. Except this time they are showing how it looks in polarized light.
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Mar
17
2021
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Charting a Genetic Sea Change
Scientists are mapping the coastline of ancient Antarctica using DNA from underwater invertebrates alive today.
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Mar
10
2021
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IceCube Sees a Glashow Resonance Event
On December 6, 2016, IceCube saw a Glashow resonance event, a phenomenon predicted by Nobel laureate physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1960. With this detection, scientists provided another confirmation of the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Mar
01
2021
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PODCAST: The McMurdo Station Fire Department
Fighting fires and keeping people safe is important everywhere, especially in the dry and windy conditions of Antarctica. It's why McMurdo Station has its own dedicated fire department.
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On the Wings of Petrels
RESEARCH UPDATE: Marine ice-cliff instability at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
