Most Recent
In Memorium: Umihiko Hoshijima, Antarctic Scientific Diver
News
Monday August 19, 2019
Umihiko ("Umi") Hoshijima, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, died in a diving accident while working on a research project in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey near Glacier Bay, Alaska, on Aug. 7, according to a university news release. He was 28.
IceCube Neutrino Observatory Upgrade
News
Wednesday August 07, 2019
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the detector at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station that identified the first likely source of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays, is getting an upgrade. On June 25, NSF approved the funding to upgrade IceCube, extending its scientific capabilities to enable IceCube to reach neutrino energies that overlap with the energy ranges of smaller existing neutrino detectors worldwide.
Quick Find
|
Archives
| 2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
2016 |
| 2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
| 2011 |
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
| 2007 |
2006 |
2005 |
2004 |
|
More Results
Aug
01
2019
|
NASA Balloon Over Antarctica Tests Neutron Stars' Mettle
Neutron Stars are the dense remains of stars which, at the end of their "life," were not quite large enough to collapse into black holes. Gravity crushes the dying star, fusing electrons and protons together in the process and forming small stars made entirely of neutrons. It is the densest matter in the universe; a single teaspoon is estimated to weigh as much as 10 million tons.
|
Jul
15
2019
|
PRI Shows How Seals Assist Scientists with Predictions of the Thwaites Glacier Collapse
Weddell seals dive almost 2,000 feet below the ocean's surface. Elephant seals (such as the one in this 2005 photo) go even deeper - more than 3,000 feet. That means if scientists equip them with sensors, the seals are ideal for measuring the ocean's temperature at different depths.
|
Jul
11
2019
|
Independence Day on The Ice
Personnel at McMurdo Station, Antarctica used their lunch break on July 5 to celebrate Independence Day with a parade. Aside from taking place on a continent experiencing 24 hours of darkness, many things would have been familiar in any parade on a typical "Main Street USA": fire engines, baton twirlers, flags, and smiling and waving military veterans.
|
Jul
01
2019
|
A Celebrity Chef's Passion for Science
Angela Zoumplis, a biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, earlier this week wrote on the opinion pages of the New York Times about a visit to a field camp in the McMurdo Dry Valleys by the late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. One of several researchers who discussed their work and Antarctic experience with Bourdain on and off camera at NSF's Lake Hoare Camp, she was initially a bit perplexed about why he had come to the southernmost continent.
|
Jun
21
2019
|
Antarctic Stations Celebrate 2019 Midwinter's Day
In Antarctica, the winter solstice is the longest night of the year and marks the halfway point of winter. Since the time of the early explorers, those people who have chosen to stay and work in Antarctica during the long dark night have celebrated Midwinter's Day.
|
Jun
20
2019
|
Researchers Uncover Trove of Ancient Fossils That Highlight Antarctica as an Evolutionary Crucible
The mountains of Antarctica may seem an unlikely place to find fish, but they were exactly what a team of paleontologists working along the edge of the Polar Plateau last winter were looking for. In a region now defined by dry rocky terrain poking up through vast sheets of thick ice, the five-member team spent much of December and January scouring the exposed landscape for the remains of ancient fish.
|
May
29
2019
|
Large-scale Images of Antarctic Landscapes at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is hosting an exhibition of large-scale images of Antarctic landscapes by Diane Tuft, who was a 2012 participant in OPP's Antarctic Artists and Writers program. The exhibit, Frozen in Time, which opened on May 23 and runs through Jan. 20, captures "the landscape in abstract ways," according to the museum, "her 13 large-scale photographs illustrate a whole new perspective on Antarctica."
|
May
28
2019
|
OPP-supported Study Uncovers Surprising Melting Patterns Beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf
The ROSETTA-Ice project, a three-year, multi-institutional data collection survey of Antarctic ice, has assembled an unprecedented view of the Ross Ice Shelf, its structure and how it has been changing over time. Now, in a study published this week in Nature Geoscience, the ROSETTA-Ice team details how they used Icepod, a first-of-its kind system designed to collect high-resolution data across the polar regions, to discover an ancient geologic structure that restricts where ocean water flows.
|
May
23
2019
|
Story By "Embedded" PRI Reporter Asks the Question "Is Thwaites Glacier Doomed?"
NSF/OPP and the U.K.'s NERC: Natural Environment Research Councill are jointly supporting a five-year, 25 million dollar deployment of researchers to investigate the fate of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier. Thwaites drains an area roughly the size of Florida or Great Britain, accounting for about 4 percent of global sea level rise - an amount that has doubled since the mid-1990s.
|
May
16
2019
|
OPP Officials Attend Antarctic Search-and-rescue Workshop
Dr. Kelly K. Falkner was one of three U.S. Antarctic Program officials who attended an Antarctic Search-and-rescue Workshop held this week in Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand.
|
May
10
2019
|
Getting a Close-up Look at How Antarctic Ocean Vegetation Weathers Change
Alex Lowe, a postdoctoral student at Maryland's Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, scuba dives near NSF's Palmer Station, Antarctica. Lowe is part of a collaborative research effort involving scientists from University of Alabama, Birmingham, UA-Fairbanks, the University of Oregon, Eugene and Texas A&M University, IslandtoIce who are studying cold-water communities on the western Antarctic Peninsula and how they may be changing.
|
May
07
2019
|
Giant Antarctic Sea Spiders Weather Warming by Getting Holey
Scientists have wondered for decades why marine animals that live in the polar oceans and the deep sea grow so large there, but nowhere else. And whether their size may make them more vulnerable to warming of polar waters. The prevailing theory - the 'oxygen-temperature hypothesis' - holds that animals living in extreme cold can grow to giant sizes because their metabolisms are very slow.
|
May
01
2019
|
Really "Cool" Jazz
To help celebrate International Jazz Day on April 30, John Mark Piper, a fire lieutenant at NSF's McMurdo Station, Antarctica volunteered his time and talents to play a number on the vibraphone in the station's Chapel of the Snows.
|
|
