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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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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RESEARCH UPDATE: The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica
NSF Blog: The Glacier of Greatest Concern
