View of the snow overburden on the exterior of the arches containing the Amundsen-Scott Station’s power plant (exhaust pipes on left), logistics warehouse (left doorway), and vehicle maintenance facility (right doorway). Extensions to the air vents for the arches can...
The SWAIS 2C team’s drilling camp on the Kamb Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, 860 kilometers from New Zealand’s Scott Station. Photo: Anthony Powell The scientific team of the SWAIS 2C project has successfully completed the first stage and recovered the...
The drilling camp of the SWAIS 2C project in West Antarctica. Photo: Craig Stevens, NIWA/New Zealand A drill core from the sea floor under the Kamb Ice Shelf in West Antarctica is expected to provide information about past warm periods and thus enable more accurate...
Study leader Michelle Shero next to Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound. (Photo: Skyla Walcott) At the US Antarctic Station McMurdo, 67 research projects were canceled or cut back as the US Antarctic Program faces logistical challenges. One of the main reasons is a housing...
Physicists planning big at the South Pole are facing a tough test of patience as pressing infrastructure problems force the U.S. National Science Foundation to postpone construction of new telescopes and neutrino detectors. (Jeff Warneck, NSF) Physicists planning big...