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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Feb
25
2021
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Record melting on the Antarctic George VI Ice Shelf
The George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula, experienced the longest melt season in three decades.
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Feb
17
2021
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Counting On Seals
Though smaller than in a typical year, a team of scientists traveled to Antarctica to study the seal pups born around McMurdo Station, and keep the world's longest Weddell sea population dataset going strong after 52 years.
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Jan
29
2021
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Weddell Seals Sing Songs Humans Can't Hear
The seals of McMurdo Sound are more vocal than previously thought. A new research paper published in the December edition of The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America shows that Weddell seals vocalize underwater at frequencies too high for humans to hear. It's the first time the extent of these high-frequency sounds have been identified.
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Jan
27
2021
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Shark Teeth Provide Clues About Ancient Global Change
Teeth from the long-extinct sand tiger shark are providing new information about massive global climate change and the movement of tectonic plates. NSF-funded University of California Merced Professor Sora Kim and colleagues have detailed in a recent paper.
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Jan
14
2021
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IceCube Collaboration Awarded the 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize
The 2021 Bruno Rossi Prize, awarded annually by the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society, "for a significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work," has been awarded to Francis Halzen and the IceCube Collaboration.
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Jan
11
2021
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A 'Bot In The Ocean
For four months, a robotic surfboard-looking autonomous surface vehicle navigated the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, collecting data about the surrounding waters and atmosphere. This data will help researchers better understand how the Southern Ocean affects the planet's climate.
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Jan
04
2021
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The 2021 South Pole Marker
Every year on January 1, the new south pole marker is placed at 90 degrees south. Each new marker is designed and fabricated every winter by the wintering-over station personnel. This year's marker was designed by Geoffrey Chen and fabricated by Cal Neske.
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NOVA Explores Mt. Erebus Volcano
UAVs Monitor Cape Crozier's Adelie Penguin Colonies
