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"Shandra Cordovano"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:05 | null | null | On any given day, residents around McMurdo Station might be found doing the cobra pose, sun salutation or downward dog. These are all poses used in yoga, which has become one of the station’s most popular after-hours recreational activities. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4197.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/Joolee-Aurand-yoga.jpg | en | null | Yoga in McMurdo | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Shandra Cordovano A full class of yoga participants fill the fitness room in McMurdo
Yoga in McMurdo
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:12 | null | null | Ross MacPhee will lead a fourth attempt to find mammalian fossils in Antarctica that would prove some of those early species were present on the continent long before it finally separated from other southern land masses and started to go into a deep freeze 40 million years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2335.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/macphee_SnowIsland,SouthShetlands.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Patrick O'Connor Paleontologists led by Ross MacPhee look for fossils on Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula. MacPhee is particularly interested in marsupial fossils that could fill out the picture of their dispersal through the Southern Hemisphere.
Reverse course Paleont... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2335 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2f08e245e3517305b8cd787f5ef2f8c729a45a89aa7ca867608c6c53f101ec06.json |
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"Pat Smith",
"Special To"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:33 | null | null | Concluding 32 years of distinguished service for global communications, one of three aged communications satellites used to connect South Pole Station to the rest of the world was decommissioned in October after eight years of service to the station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1639.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/MARISAT_silhouette.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Will Silva/Antarctic Photo Library A silhouette of the South Pole Marisat-GOES terminal, which is now covered by a radome. One of the satellites the antenna received, Marisat-F2, was decommissioned 32 years after it was launched and eight years after it began serving as an important communications satelli... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1639 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b2b092cea81283badc9dccab36e67de0719d2a43bec1a97578ef7b7b15781f7b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:41 | null | null | Kenneth Sims is a geologist who specializes in using naturally occurring radiogenic isotopes to study Earth processes. Not the sort of high-tech job that one would think requires lugging a sledgehammer to a rock outcrop in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4089.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/lewis-bay-helicopter.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alasdair Turner Scientist Ken Sims uses a sledgehammer to break rocks on a ridge of Hut Point Peninsula. He uses the rock samples for isotopic analyses that can tell a story about the history of volcanic activity and the evolution of Ross Island.
Chipping away
Rock samples may offer clues to volcanic evol... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4089 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3d49000d5ca75cb8e10c9eca6831d8381ab880cefbe6490e4760ead478bd075e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:17 | null | null | The problem of doing long-term research in Antarctica is related to the daunting logistics: the vast distances, the unpredictable, brutally cold weather. That makes Terry Wilson’s efforts to instrument, in essence, all of West Antarctica in a bid to learn more about its ice sheet and the earth below, just that much mor... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2615.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Seth White/POLENET Brian Bonnett, with IRIS PASCAL, installs GPS instruments on Fallone Nunatak in West Antarctica as part of the POLENET array. The project measures various earth properties below the ice, as well as its response to the unloading of ice over long and short periods of time.
Network buildin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2615 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4d4a778bdcf28dfbdb18b083457b13c06a5d931fbbda4e237d45de7777f32025.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:56 | null | null | They call it tanker weather. Every year a fuel vessel, above, arrives at McMurdo Station. Invariably, the weather takes a turn for the worse, with colder temperatures and high winds as the summer comes to an end. This year was no exception | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4124.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/cargo-ship-storm.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Laura Gerwin
Tanker Weather
Big storm hits McMurdo Station during fuel vessel operation
They call it tanker weather.
Photo Credit: Laura Gerwin
Every year a fuel vessel, above, arrives at McMurdo Station. Invariably, the weather takes a turn for the worse, with colder temperatures and high winds as the su... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4124 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/652d98567958207544ed45b7fc0dd2a73297b0be84bb8eaaf8d74c6659f5a544.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T12:48:17 | null | null | In the past 18 months, multiple nations signed on to the international accords that administer Antarctica and the protocol overseeing its environmental stewardship. At the same time, other countries have started new science efforts or announced plans to expand dramatically their permanent presence. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4183.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/elephant-seal.jpg | en | null | International Antarctic Family Welcomes New Members | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Joe Phillips The flags of the original 12 signatory nations to the Antarctic Treaty surround the ceremonial South Pole.
International Antarctic Family Welcomes New Members
Photo Credit: Rob Jones At McMurdo Station, the flags of the original 12 Antarctic treaty nations fly outside the chalet, next to a bu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4183 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0b19cb6267fe2fc2c7552dfcc9010923d558893c6e217e7856edfb5346b5a4c8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:55 | null | null | The Antarctic Integrated System Sciences program will administer projects that transcend disciplinary boundaries. It will consider proposals that delve for a deeper, more complex understanding of Antarctica and its past, present and future roles on the planet. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1276.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-pdf.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Henry Kaiser, Sarah Anderson, Steven Profazier, Bill Meurer and Glenn Grant (clockwise from top left) The new Antarctic Integrated System Sciences program at NSF's Office of Polar Programs will bring together multiple disciplines to unlock some of the most complex questions in science. Disciplines include... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1276 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9c6acec5224f56ad66626d71a56733a4bed7af9328ea08fa3d711d61678888fb.json |
[
"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:14 | null | null | Norm Augustine, the former chair of the National Academy of Engineering, will lead an upcoming strategic review of U.S. science-support operations on the continent of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and National Science Foundation (NSF) announced in July. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2464.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/augustine_pole.JPG | en | null | Planning for the future | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A work crew makes final adjustments to the platform entrance of the South Pole Station in December 2010. The new research station, dedicated in January 2008, was built with impetus from a 1997 report by an external panel led by Norm Augustine. Augustine has just been appointed to lead a new r... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2464 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/13db00212cbdfd90988ca7bc84fe9280bbf9e63b08cc8654e39b69db088c2f24.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:39 | null | null | The year 1969 was one of those watershed periods in U.S. history, when the American dream expanded to include a diverse array of people and beliefs. But U.S. women were still barred from living and working in Antarctica. That was about to change when a handful of women arrived on the continent for the 1969-70 field sea... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1945.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/women_pyramid.jpg | en | null | Stepping into history | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. Navy Rear Adm. David F. "Kelly" Welch (third from left) accompanies Terry Lee Tickhill, Lois Jones, Pam Young, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Jean Pearson, left to right, on their first steps at the South Pole. The six women became the first females to visit 90 degrees south, breaking the gender b... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1945 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/621622bf755560e7a633ba15f201195c0408ae7712c07283127b7e247f7d4104.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:34 | null | null | Douglas Wiens and colleagues combined seismological and GPS data to reveal that an ice stream in West Antarctica releases two bursts of seismic waves every day, each one equivalent to a magnitude 7 earthquake. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1476.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/glacial_quake.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Douglas Wiens/NSF Douglas Wiens, at left, deploys an instrument in Antarctica. Wiens led a project in West Antarctica that discovered ice streams — large glaciers — release enough seismic energy when they move to cause a 7 magnitude earthquake. The scientists call this phenomenon a "stick-slip" movement... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1476 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/122ac3c74db2a093f258eef30db6ff8d4f25b71f8a2cca0e30083919815e0d10.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:35 | null | null | Pine Island Glacier is the fastest flowing glacier in Antarctica. The ice flows into a relatively small but thick ice shelf. Thinning of that ice shelf allows the glacier to flow more quickly, ultimately adding to the global equation of sea-level rise. To learn more about what's happening, a team of scientists must bra... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2272.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Cracking the Case (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Landsat The Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf in 2001. The dark bands are crevasse fields. The crack at left was an iceberg preparing to calve. A camp will be established near the ice shelf, where scientists will fly to using helicopters.
Cracking the case Crevasse-riddled ice shelf poses logistical challenge... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2272 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d4b56baeaebcac42e1dc41b422fbcef9fe1273c61ff7b7165ba1f871dbb1aee5.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:17 | null | null | National Science Foundation Director Subra Suresh presented President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request for the agency in February, seeking about a 5 percent bump over last year’s enacted budget, to $7.3 billion. Antarctic research looks to receive a proposed 9 percent increase over last year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2611.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | NSF budget 2013 | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library A helicopter returns to McMurdo Station, the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program. The proposed 2013 NSF budget contains about $250 million for infrastructure, logistics and transportation involved in running the U.S. facilities, camps and vessels.
NSF budget 2013 Agency ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2611 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/18bbf54e535bc2ec7a667069622627d5b9087a5c3b9b99a317e4309ce66daa98.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:23 | null | null | DNA analysis of some “little brown mushrooms” discovered on an island off the Antarctic Peninsula has found that the fruiting bodies of the fungi are extremely poisonous but relatively common, even in the extreme southern location in which they were found. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2723.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ronald I. Lewis-Smith The mushroom Galerina
antarctica from Deception Island in the South Orkney Islands. A similar species was recently found and identified near Palmer Station. The fungi are widespread on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and offshore islands to just south of Palmer Station.
Ide... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2723 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c7dfde04eab9d9d9a778703ca82c2c38bda59a93bc9f83c3b15174d49e32a3d0.json |
[
"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:35 | null | null | A complicated international air operation coordinated by the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation, has successfully evacuated a badly injured employee of the Australian Antarctic Division from Antarctica to a hospital in Hobart, Tasmania. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1600.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/130_jato.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Charles Kaminski/Antarctic Photo Library A ski-equipped LC-130 military aircraft uses jet rockets to aid in liftoff from a glacier. The same sort of plane, flown by the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard, was used to evacuate an injured worker at Australia's Antarctic base, Casey Statio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1600 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/49667e0c2fb0d402cce70573168248ae350e38e1eee95efbd93785c756763c55.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:38 | null | null | Scientists revealed what lies underneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheets in unprecedented detail in a new map that was published in the open-access journal The Cryosphere last month. Researchers say it will be an important tool in modeling future sea-level rise. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2824.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Under the covers | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bedmap2/British Antarctic Survey The international Bedmap2 project reveals Antarctica's subglacial landscape in greater detail than ever before. Researchers say it will be an important tool in modeling future sea-level rise as the Antarctic responds to climate change.
Under the covers
Bedmap2 project reve... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2824 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9ea3aa379cca88598650bb023d67900def3eb32bb91a39d08f0777a240e32208.json |
[
"Dean Hancock",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:02 | null | null | Crossing into the southern hemisphere meant that the research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD would, in an instant, sail from summer into winter. A change was coming. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2773.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/gould-punta-arenas.jpg | en | null | Passing the Seasons (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dean Hancock The research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD leaves a foamy wake as it steams through Chile's "inside passage," which offered shelter and beautiful scenery on the ship's southbound journey to Punta Arenas, Chile, earlier this year.
Passing the seasons
Voyage to southern hemisphere finds winter await... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2773 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5303509545ea9c1ed94727b276191299cd7e33b67edbd23f061065bb501e05d7.json |
[
"Allison Batdorff",
"Mcmurdo Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:05 | null | null | The first flights of the main austral summer field season in Antarctica started arriving Oct. 3 at McMurdo Station. In the words of one U.S. Antarctic Program participant on the influx of new people: "It goes from serene and familiar to mayhem and unfamiliar." | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1924.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/mainbody09_plane.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Allison Batdorff A crowd gathers in the hallway of Building 155 at McMurdo Station to greet new arrivals and reconnect with returning friends when the first mainbody flight arrived on the Ice on Oct. 3. About 1,000 people will work out of the U.S. Antarctic Program's main research station during the heigh... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1924 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9d862396b8d2267098f237bf76b4c19db0295c90d983e55e3fae031c1e77df1c.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:32 | null | null | The South Pole Station’s Atmospheric Research Observatory is one of the key sites in the world for climatological data thanks to the extraordinarily clean air. The blue two-story building with funky, dark bubble windows is located about a half-kilometer from the main station in an area called, appropriately enough, the... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2493.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/aro_sign.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek NOAA Station Chief Christine Schultz places an air sample bottle into a case destined for a university stateside for atmospheric research. NOAA's Atmospheric Research Observatory at the South Pole is part of a global network that monitors air constituents, among other studies.
Fresh air NOAA ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2493 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/25196309cb7a4a99cc5c6c56e3f4c1526393e089109d71f7b8e675446f4a0119.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:19 | null | null | A mountain range the size of the European Alps, but buried below hundreds of meters of ice and snow, has puzzled and enticed Antarctic scientists since its discovery 50 years ago. Now a international team of researchers will venture into the Antarctic Gamburstev Province to learn about the origins of the subglacial mou... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1278.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/AGAP with TAMSEIS.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Doug Wiens Researchers headed into the field for the seismic instrumentation of the AGAP project in 2007-08 can expect the same sort of extreme weather conditions experienced during TAMSEIS (2001-03), a project in the Transantarctic Mountains that used an earlier generation of seismometers for similar res... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1278 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6eff27d1bd5f4ecf0d599a52151dbd4b8c1e299d0c9c736de8227e7d1dc9635b.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:30 | null | null | The movement of supplies and cargo from the United States across thousands of miles of ocean to Antarctica to support scientific research on the southernmost continent relies on a certain serendipity. When that fails, send in the Army. That’s what the National Science Foundation did when the ice pier at McMurdo Station... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2608.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: William Henriksen/Antarctic Photo Library Cargo is unloaded from the MV GREEN WAVE onto a temporary pier built by the U.S. Army. The ice pier normally used for the cargo operation in Winter Quarters Bay failed to solidify this season.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:15 | null | null | Centuries? A thousand years? It was hard to estimate the wealth of polar experience gathered in the small auditorium on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus. One thing was for sure: This had to be one of the most unique meetings of Antarctic and Arctic scientists and explorers in recent history. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2144.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Wealth of experience | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Charles Bentley talks about his experiences traversing Antarctica during the 1950s and 1960s, when basic facts about the continent were just beginning to be discovered, at a conference of the American Polar Society.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:43 | null | null | Twenty years ago, Kendrick Taylor and his colleagues first conceived of drilling for a deep ice core in the middle of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) while working to extract one in Greenland. Now they're on the cusp of completing the project, which promises to offer new insights into climate change research. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2237.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Maria Banks/WAIS Divide The WAIS Divide Ice Core field camp in West Antarctica under a cloudy sky during the 2009-10 field season. While the site is ideal for recovering an ice core with a high-resolution record of past climate, horrendous weather makes it a difficult place to work.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:32 | null | null | An iconic chinstrap penguin colony on Deception Island, a popular stop for tourists to the Antarctic Peninsula, has declined by more than 50 percent in the last 25 years. That’s the conclusion recently published by researchers who spent 12 days in December 2011 counting individual penguin nests on the remote Antarctic ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2734.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Cut in half | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: ©Ron Naveen/Oceanites Inc. Chinstrap penguins at Baily Head, Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers have documented at least a 50 percent decline in the population over the last 20 years. Various factors may be involved, but scientists don't believe tourism is a contributing factor. Cu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2734 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/931ead08a850e4590f69be788e462c7dad846a9a213228e8b54d54e1a88487b2.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:56 | null | null | Antarctic sea ice extent reached a new record high maximum last month, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. In contrast to the sharp downward trend in Arctic sea ice, Antarctic sea ice has been increasing at 1.1 percent per decade relative to the 30-year average. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2910.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/antarctica-sea-ice-extent-nsidc.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jefferson Beck, NASA IceBridge/Antarctic Photo Library Several types of ice are evident, including a glacier on the lower left flowing into the ocean, a small ice shelf on the upper left, and small icebergs and different types of sea ice floating in the water. Sea ice around Antarctica reached a new recor... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2910 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a9279e55aa4283f98ba2ff513fe8d856456a13057b708ae3c1b2c4b8fb56a577.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:35 | null | null | The McMurdo Station Cosmic Ray Observatory first started counting the charged subatomic particles that bombard the Earth in 1960. Fifty years later, the U.S. Antarctic Program’s longest running experiment still keeps an eye on the activity of the solar system’s hottest object. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2438.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/cosray_neutron_monitor.jpg | en | null | 50 Years and Counting (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA This is an image of an extremely powerful solar flare event that occurred in 2003. The image reveals hot gas in the solar atmosphere in false color, and the flare is the bright, white area on the right edge of the sun. The McMurdo CosRay Observatory detects secondary particles created when primary co... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2438 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a3fcd81bf7c74d21633bb6eea0b6730cbcd413cccb4421105630ead5363efc34.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:48 | null | null | Need an ice core in an area where you may drill through bits of sand and rock? Better use a Koci Drill. Doing a little seismic work requiring numerous holes? A portable hotwater drill is probably the way to go. The engineers with the Ice Drilling Design and Operations group can meet all those needs and more. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1979.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/drill_alex.jpg | en | null | Core of drilling | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alexander Shturmakov Construction of the DISC drill for the WAIS Divide ice core project in Madison, Wis. It's the most advanced drill of its kind in existence, according to the engineers with the Ice Drilling and Design Operations group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:46 | null | null | Scott Sternbach’s portraits of those who work in the Antarctic might have been torn from the pages of history. Only the Carhartts, the synthetic fleeces and the various modern accoutrements of his subjects break the illusion. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1605.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/photog_scientist.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Scott Sternbach Scott Sternbach prepares to shoot a picture with his 8X10-view camera at Palmer Station. Sternbach is working on a photo exhibit project he calls "Antarctic Souls," which focuses on portraits of people, from cooks to scientists.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:57 | null | null | So what happens when you turn off the lights in Antarctica? John Priscu and his team of scientists plan to stay in the McMurdo Dry Valleys until April to find out what happens to the ice-covered lake ecosystem as polar night approaches. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1283.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Polar Night lights (top).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Priscu John Priscu made two early summer season visits to the McMurdo Dry Valleys in the 1990s. Now he and a team of scientists will remain until April as twilight and cold creeps across the valleys and the ice-covered lakes.
In the cold of the night
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:05 | null | null | Subra Suresh, the director of the National Science Foundation, visited U.S. Antarctic Program stations and field camps during a five-day visit in November, accompanied by the heads of some of the nation’s leading science agencies. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2547.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/pole_suresh_spt.jpg | en | null | Subra Suresh on the Ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
Subra Suresh on the Ice NSF director makes first visit to USAP facilities in Antarctica
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:23 | null | null | By definition, an adventure involves the unexpected. Author Nancy Etchemendy knew she was signing up for an adventure when she agreed to join a group of oceanographers studying icebergs in the Southern Ocean. She didn't know sea legs would be so hard to come by. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1554.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/nancy_boat.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Nancy Etchemendy Author Nancy Etchemendy stands on the deck of the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer during a science cruise in June. The project is studying the effect icebergs have in fertilizing the ocean with nutrients. Etchemendy joined the expedition to write a book about the science for young adults.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:49 | null | null | Martin A. Pomerantz, regarded by many as the father of South Pole astronomy, died Oct. 25, 2008, at his home in northern California, after a long bout with cancer. He was 91 years old. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1592.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Martin A. Pomerantz | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Keith Vanderlinde/Antarctic Photo Library An aurora shimmers in the night sky above the Martin A. Pomerantz Observatory at the South Pole during the 2008 winter in July. The observatory was named after Martin A. Pomerantz, considered by many as the father of South Pole astronomy. He died Oct. 25, 2008, at... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1592 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bae03483911370046cea7d1609ef95f3315c015fecd671359ffea47b6857729b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:27 | null | null | A storm packing 80-mile-per-hour winds slammed into McMurdo Station earlier this month, delaying the first flights to the U.S. Antarctic Program's largest research base by four days. More than 200 people started arriving on Aug. 24 after waiting for a break in the weather. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4064.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/Deltas.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alasdair Turner Passengers deplane from a C-17 on Aug. 24. The first WinFly flights arrived at McMurdo Station after a four-day delay due to storms, which packed winds up to 80 miles per hour.
Safe landings
Five flights arrive at McMurdo Station in August to prepare USAP for 2014-15 season
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:00 | null | null | Late August storms around McMurdo Station delayed the first U.S. flights to Antarctica since March, but the last of six planned flights finally took place on Aug. 31, officially ending the winter fly-in period called Winfly, when new personnel arrive to ready the research station for the upcoming field season that begi... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2730.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Boomerangs and bad weather | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Holly Troy Passengers disembark from a U.S. Air Force C-17 plane at McMurdo Station. Six flights from New Zealand to McMurdo in late August transported personnel and cargo. It was minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit at Pegasus White Ice Runway when the first flight arrived on Aug. 23.
Boomerangs and bad weather
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:18 | null | null | Researchers with the IceCube collaboration have announced that a National Science Foundation (NSF)-built detector at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station allowed them to observe 28 very high-energy neutrinos that constitute the first solid evidence for astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic accelerators such as black hol... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2945.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/icecube_domdeployment4_sm.jpg | en | null | From a galaxy far, far away | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | In the video above, scientists and NSF officials discuss the purpose of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory upon completion of its construction at the end of 2010. Three years later, the world's largest neutrino detector has made history with the detection of very high-energy neutrinos from outside the solar system.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:37 | null | null | Permafrost geologist Joseph Levy calls the salty tale of water formation on the floor of the McMurdo Dry Valleys the story of how Antarctica got its spots. He and colleagues discovered that the salty soils in Antarctica’s largest ice-free region can draw moisture out of the atmosphere to create wet patches of ground. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2627.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/TAYLORVALLEYEREBUS.jpg | en | null | Drawing it out | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Joe Levy Scientist Andrew Fountain samples a patch of wet, salty soil in Taylor Valley. Researchers discovered that the salty soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys can draw moisture out of the air to create wet patches of ground.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:00 | null | null | A career in science seems to sort of just happen for many at Byrd Polar Research Center. Each person has a different story to tell, but the motivation seems to be the same: to solve mysteries and discover new questions to answer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1467.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/career_terry.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Mike Willis Stephanie Konfal and Mike Willis deploy instruments for the TAMDEF project in the Beacon Valley in 2005. Both were students under Terry Wilson at the time. Willis is now a post-doctoral fellow at Byrd Polar Research Center. Each researcher at Byrd has his or her own story about choosing a ca... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1467 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bc8ffaf82ffa275cda788b332d4092d5504f542733f0b1a7d2e8b42dd88c9aaa.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:08 | null | null | A long-term study of the diving physiology of emperor penguins has learned much about the deep-diving seabirds over the decades. The project also studies population trends within the seven Ross Sea colonies, and recently tried to add the elusive leopard seal to its research. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2593.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | A big breath | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Paul Ponganis A group of emperor penguins exits the water at Cape Washington. The birds are regularly capable of going down to depths of 500 meters for five to 12 minutes at a time.
A big breath Study tackles emperor penguin diving physiology, population dynamics and even leopard seals
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:56 | null | null | Scientists trolling the shallow waters near Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula found significantly higher krill biomass density in coastal areas than in deeper, offshore waters. The finding could have future implications for managing the krill fisheries in the region. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2259.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Hugging the shore | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Derek Needham Boat driver Steve Sessions and scientist Joe Warren head out on a Zodiac boat to conduct acoustic surveys of krill in the waters around Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Hugging the shore Scientists find high krill density in coastal areas in first multi-year study
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:16 | null | null | U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner traveled to Antarctica in early February to visit the National Science Foundation's McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott South Pole stations to observe firsthand the activities of the U.S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2594.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner
Diplomatic trip U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa pays a visit to Antarctica
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner traveled to Antarctica Feb. 4-8, 2012, to visit the National Science Foundation's McMurdo and Amundsen-Scott S... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2594 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f81e2618d95017ef49a9a7e7e80b910c5ce48ef26a70d3783f3a353098d51ee2.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:07 | null | null | Tony D’Aoust likes to say he found enlightenment while living in a converted city bus, but he seems to have found his purpose in life while working for the U.S. Antarctic Program. He recently returned in a support role after a more than 10-year absence. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2027.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/lmg_tony_winch.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Tony D'Aoust preps the MOCNESS, a special sampling net for collecting marine organisms, aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould. A commercial fisherman in Alaska, D'Aoust has worked a variety of jobs in the USAP since 1988.
Rekindled passion D'Aoust returns to USAP support role after long absence
T... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2027 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/71286ea056258cb37b2e31e9c28a4895003af6fe5cf216585e7e132f0428ccf8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:54 | null | null | The first couple of months of 2013 brought some unusual ice behavior in the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, as sea ice pushed northward toward warmer latitudes. The ice edge was roughly 200 to 300 kilometers north of what is normal for that time of year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2829.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/nsidc-sea-ice-nasa-labeled.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA The first couple of months of 2013 brought some unusual ice behavior in the Weddell Sea when the ice edge was roughly 200 to 300 kilometers north of what is normal for that time of year.
Iced over
Sea ice extent exhibits unusual behavior in Weddell Sea
The first couple of months of 2013 brought some ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2829 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4c81a583e0f288123d14265b40e7ee974fb4969f7980ddb6a25aba866cea2f17.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:52 | null | null | An early-morning 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Sept. 4 (local time) caused widespread damage throughout the South Island’s largest city but did not significantly affect U.S. Antarctic Program operations or facilities. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2257.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/CDC%20wide%20view.jpg | en | null | Earthquake in Christchurch | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons Central Christchurch was severely damaged during the Sept. 4 earthquake that rocked New Zealand's South Island. The city's iconic cathedral, seen in the distance, escaped harm thanks to recent renovations that strengthened the building.
Earthquake in Christchurch USAP operations mostly u... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2257 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9032e3c2ef433ed9cf29a3f51e6899ab05d12ad5b9c0c8c28ce58acfc6a85df4.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:35 | null | null | More than 110 years since it was built on the spit of land that would become known as Hut Point, Robert Falcon Scott’s first expedition base is getting an extreme makeover Antarctic-style. But you'd never be able to tell - and that's how the conservators like it. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3010.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/Discovery-Hut-plastic-dam.jpg | en | null | For Future Generations (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | For future generations
Effort under way to conserve Scott's first expedition hut near McMurdo Station
More than 110 years since it was built on the spit of land that would become known as Hut Point, Robert Falcon Scott’s first expedition base is getting an extreme makeover Antarctic-style.
In the case of Discovery Hut ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=3010 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/03491f9afa0755f913eacb32a3d0af9960d90a8b90918ecd5f0bd119a2ddc57b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:15 | null | null | Why do Adélie penguins forage in the locations that they do? Scientists working in the Antarctic Peninsula plan to find out by following the seabirds to their hunting grounds with a high-tech robot that can match their speed and endurance. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2299.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Mark Moline Scientists deploy a REMUS AUV over the side of a small boat off the coast of Florida. Mark Moline will employ a similar instrument in Antarctica to track Adélie penguins as they hunt for food during their breeding season to learn about the places they favor.
Bird watching Autonomous robot to... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2299 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/60b1407aa1f93ada840b70d5bfec9e96c1f73638874de3494ea7a3b30ba7f525.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:13:10 | null | null | Planes and ships, tractors and skis, ponies and sled dogs, and even a hot air balloon: All manner of transportation has been tried and used in the Antarctic. Once upon a time (not so long ago), even hovercraft glided across the ice of Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2914.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/hovercraft-maxine-lou-sarah.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Braddock Sarah Krall and Louise “Lou” Albershardt take a break on the hovercraft that they piloted during the Antarctic field season of 1988-89. The hovercraft was an experiment in using a different mode of transportation to support science. It lasted only a few years.
Time flies
Former hovercraft p... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2914 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cbfba8f3db07b573b2c99aba6b3c900c96038926ba6b4f0ba00104dd9491e6d0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:41 | null | null | Ice sheets in the northern hemisphere began a relatively quick retreat at the end of the last ice age. Antarctica didn’t really get going until about 10,000 years ago, but when the ice sheet finally began to pull back across the Ross Sea region, it did so with amazing rapidity. A team of scientists spent weeks camped i... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2425.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Unzipping climate change | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Stone Scientist Perry Spector collects a rock sample from the summit ridge of Mount Hope, from a site looking across Beardmore Glacier to Mount Kyffin. Researchers use special techniques to date the rocks, which can help them determine when the ice sheet retreated from this area.
Unzipping climate ch... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2425 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0ed1696f5b94d4f1aa6759ec36eec85ad96f992a1ccef6d4952bf956eee91631.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:13 | null | null | Scientists recently announced that they had found the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record set in 1983. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2950.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/ColdestPlaceRecords.jpg | en | null | Reaching a new low | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC This image shows the location of record low temperature measurements for Antarctica. The red dots show where the satellites measured record surface temperatures and the earlier record low air temperature occurred.
Reaching a new low
Satellites find record negative temperatures in East An... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2950 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/20f93034b4b52b6e889fdd0bd36e1757a5539943e129b6f507c887055c7937df.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:15 | null | null | An artifact from the dawn of biological research in McMurdo Sound has been recovered from the seafloor and turned over to the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Research Center at McMurdo Station for display. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2322.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/dayton_artifact_merge.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Gordy Robilliard (left) and Cara Sucher (right) At left, scientist Paul Dayton deploys an experiment in McMurdo Sound in the 1960s. At right, a "benthic grab" recovered from one of the lost experiment sites by Dayton and a team of divers in October 2010. The instrument's use dates back to the 1950s.
Histo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2322 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/515b174505ccc1f8af4199c947d89a1114adc07f79b5004f53eb2c394fdc44c8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:27 | null | null | The United States and Russia signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation in Antarctica earlier this month during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Vladivostok, Russia. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2741.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/CHALETFLAGS.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Rob Jones/Antarctic Photo Library The flags of the original 12 signatory nations of the Antarctic Treaty fly next to a bust of Adm. Richard Byrd at McMurdo Station. The United States and Russia, two of the original dozen, recently signed an agreement to expand their cooperation in Antarctica.
Diplomatic t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2741 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8db0489074a15668a832c4afa8cbab9a5ebb88326e83855ce21b60afc22fa488.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:31 | null | null | West Antarctica remains the most climatically dynamic region of Antarctica, which continues to be largely shielded from the effects of global warming thanks to the persistence of the ozone hole. But that’s likely to change before the end of the century, according to a revised report from SCAR. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2859.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/CROZIEREMPERORS.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: August Allen/Antarctic Photo Library Aerial view of a field camp on Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf. Pine Island Glacier, also known as PIG, is one of the fastest receding glaciers in the Antarctic and one of the main contributors to rising sea levels. A revised report from SCAR highlights climate change in... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2859 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ab84951b069762dbc2020a36323e78a26fbf43948634ea54658e435ee36b65b9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:39 | null | null | How do Weddell seals behave and survive when the polar night dominates and when there is little light for hunting under the ice? That question is at the heart of a research project that will track the Antarctic predator during the late winter. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2248.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/SEALS.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Randall Davis A Weddell seal sports a video data recorder that scientists use to create a three-dimensional map of its movement in the water as it hunts for prey. Researchers hope to learn more about their hunting behavior during late-winter darkness.
Night hunt Scientists track seal predation behavior th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2248 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/39e69af8a9c674b27968266ca26cc9bd441aa660ac4c753fcfed20ba4e9adbc4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:57 | null | null | Antarctica faces an uncertain future amidst growing pressures from global climate change and human activities — a major conservation challenge that will require a commitment from scientists, policymakers and others with interests in protecting the environmental and scientific values of the southernmost continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2719.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/MTWILLIAMAMSLERIS.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Janice O'Reilly/Antarctic Photo Library Mount William and surrounding glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest warming regions of the planet. More of the Antarctic may undergo additional climate and human pressures in the coming decades, according to an assessment by an international pa... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2719 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/43e9f5fa19850f3ba9d729ad26ed65595bbabd339d749f264d4b647a6cdc745a.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:16 | null | null | Diminishing sea ice. Declining krill populations. Increasing snowfall and rain. Now it appears even ticks are harassing Adélie penguins along the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula. One group of researchers is using statistical analyses to figure out exactly what's going on. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1506.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/naveen_adelie.bmp | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ron Naveen/© 2008 Oceanites, Inc. Heather Lynch monitors a gentoo penguin study group on Petermann Island. Visible to the south is a refuge constructed by Argentina in 1955. Across the ice-filled Penola Strait are Mount Mill, Lumiere Peak, Mount Demaria and Cape Tuxen.
Losing count Plunging seabird popula... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1506 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c8f90b2dd87659a7da9cee317348676f1f9231fa12dc8b8b0554b4193489fc35.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:30 | null | null | The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once wrote that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. For a team of physicists hoping to learn more about the high-energy universe, the journey toward building an array of 10,000 instruments for just that purpose began this past season with a single prototype deployed ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2059.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/arianna_testing.jpg | en | null | Tuning into neutrinos | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Spencer Klein Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory engineer Thorsten Stezelberger debugs hardware at the ARIANNA field camp during the 2009-10 season in Antarctica. ARIANNA proposes to capture radio waves created by neutrinos to learn more about the universe.
Tuning into neutrinos ARIANNA proposes to use... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2059 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/da7e4188dc26a6e368aaaece04ed89c6563336c88cbf3816949a8dfca820150b.json |
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"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:07 | null | null | Researchers with the BICEP2 collaboration recently announced that their telescope in Antarctica has allowed them to collect what they believe is the first direct evidence for cosmic inflation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2998.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/bicep_brevik_working.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steffen Richter/BICEP The sun sets behind BICEP2, foreground, and the South Pole Telescope at NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Scientists behind the BICEP2 telescope have detected a clear signal of cosmic inflation, one of the cornerstone theories of how the universe formed nearly 14 billion years... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2998 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6b745a0e1dd2f7a14d55286d81cca87f1e9172e664bd8744c69947abd9538b0e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:49 | null | null | Most people will tell you that they joined the U.S. Antarctic Program for the adventure. In some ways, Paul Queior’s decision to head south and take a job at Palmer Station seems more as if he’s taking a break before the next great adventure of his life. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1521.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/paulq_vert.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alex Ince-Cushman Paul Queior and friend Matthew Hurley on Mount McKinley in Alaska a couple of years ago. Queior has taken a slight detour on his quest to climb the Seven Summits to work as an IT network engineer at Palmer Station.
New horizons Paul Queior detours from Seven Summits bid for stint at Palm... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1521 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/355eee75f58d5feb61e575d8f8cea1fedca48e296f4643c3a94a07b1af4e89c0.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:13 | null | null | Once upon a time, in the age of brick-sized mobile phones and big-hair bands, a high-precision GPS receiver was a high-priced commodity. Today, university-governed organization UNAVCO supports research around the world with these and other high-precision instruments, including Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2840.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Movers and shakers | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: UNAVCO High on Mount Erebus, the continuously operating GPS site, MACZ, is rebuilt with a more robust frame and other components by UNAVCO staff. Boulder, Colo.-based UNAVCO supports dozens of projects in Antarctica with GPS, LiDAR instrumentation.
Movers and shakers
UNAVCO assists Antarctic researchers w... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2840 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d6eca677e877938528a92de051f7f7cae8563bac29b39650583d9c9baaabecc5.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:49 | null | null | Scientists from the United States and New Zealand, using a mix of old and new technology,found that the population size of an Adélie penguin colony on Antarctica’s Beaufort Island near the southern Ross Sea increased 84 percent over a 50-year period as the ice fields retreated. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2841.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: David Ainley/Courtesy University of Minnesota Researcher Kattie Dugger walks among nesting Adélie penguins on Beaufort Island in the Ros Sea. Using archival photos and satellite imagery, scientists have found that the population size of the penguin colony increased 84 percent over a 50-year period as the ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2841 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/befbed7f00fb9971c33b3815fd8f1e7e422427ff5fd16baf1c7c12baab8a534b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:15:49 | null | null | Blood Falls pours out onto the ice-covered surface of Lake Bonney in the McMurdo Dry Valleys like spilled ketchup. The feature results from the discharge of iron-rich, saline liquid that percolates from a briny subglacial pool that is home to a unique community of microbes. It is now the first subglacial ASPA. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2731.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library An iron-rich, saline liquid percolates from a briny subglacial pool somewhere underneath Taylor Glacier, giving Blood Falls its distinctive coloration as the liquid oxidizes. The feature became the first subglacial ASPA earlier this year.
Environmental precedent
Blood ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2731 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bb8ca84a3d2e93747fc35298ef50e828fbec8edffedd88f29f3f1b54e5aa166a.json |
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No laughing matter Antarctic pond offers insight into greenhouse... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2118 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5338f01ae64fd746d47d3cd734feee477dbf20b3dec03e4f6a3860b3d1f9568f.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:28:07 | null | null | Paleontologist Stephen Hasiotis and his team of 'time trackers' found tracks, burrows and other trace evidence of animals that lived in Antarctica more than 200 million years ago while working in the central Transantarctic Mountains during the 2010-11 field season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2401.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/ctam_hasiotis_wahlglacier_castle_goingup2.jpg | en | null | No Bones About It (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Paleontologist Stephen Hasiotis, left, and mountaineer Brian McCullough hike up an outcrop nicknamed "the castle" near Wahl Glacier. The team found burrows on the outcrop, as well as fossililzed trees at another nearby site.
No bones about it Scientists find traces of life without relying on ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2401 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0bc54dbc47d3d1bb45366c532595ca5a13ccfd17ee3e44a5edd2acc553279b96.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:45 | null | null | It all started with a science fair project at James Monroe Middle School in Albuquerque, N.M. Last month, teacher Turtle Haste and her student Andy Olander presented their data on a project studying sun shadows around the world — including Antarctica — at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1677.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/shadow_pole.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: IPY.org Polies measure the shadow cast by the geographic pole during the austral summer last year. The measurements are part of a middle school experiment involving students in New Mexico. Teacher Turtle Haste says the experiment teaches students how to conduct long-term projects.
The shadow knows School ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1677 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c2fc029284298a70062c1a1ebf659f608172f03fa8fe064b777012dc4cd771d4.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:28 | null | null | The average sea spider in McMurdo Sound is neither itsy nor bitsy. Although they live in oceans all over the world, to find the really enormous ones, scientists have to trek to Antarctica. It’s a phenomenon called polar gigantism, and scientists are studying these marine giants as part of a U.S. Antarctic Program-suppo... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4189.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/seaspiders-banner.jpg | en | null | Secrets of the Gigantic Sea Spiders | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bret Tobalske A giant Sea Spider walks along the bottom of McMurdo Sound.
Secrets of the Gigantic Sea Spiders
The average sea spider in McMurdo Sound is neither itsy nor bitsy. Although they live in oceans all over the world, to find the really enormous ones, scientists have to trek to Antarctica.
The big... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4189 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/447ca494163ddc4e5290bde3403ac9995529da728fc2ca5643947c486f455d7e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:38 | null | null | A February storm wrecked a field camp on Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula, forcing the team of scientists to abandon their project earlier than planned. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1721.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | A big blow | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Clare Flemming The Livingston Island team takes shelter near a cave after a powerful storm wrecked their field camp. The party included, from left, Marcelo Reguero, Ross MacPhee, Lou Jacobs, Robin Beck and Chris Denker. Not pictured: Clare Flemming and Marcelo Tejedor.
A big blow Storm wrecks field camp, ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1721 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/333a4c497686457e3ac7117a75b764a4325c7d51c224822ce05753645bfd7254.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:02 | null | null | John Moriarty is one of those ordinary people who never seem to pass up an opportunity to do something extraordinary. In 1968, Moriarty’s sense of adventure propelled him to join a team of arctic adventurers that became the first to make an overland traverse to the North Pole using snowmobiles. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2419.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/ut_moriarty.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Utility mechanic John Moriarty, 71, makes his rounds checking on the furnaces at McMurdo Station. The Minnesota native has made four trips to Antarctica, and more than 40 years ago took part in the first confirmed overland traverse to the North Pole.
Arctic adventure Moriarty supported 1968 s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2419 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ba8deb52d3f58eb4dc761282d216592a27e6b6df1bcf4d4b31669ec62aecd06c.json |
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"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:10 | null | null | Charles Hood's book will explore the relationship between aviation and science in Antarctica. He wonders: Is there really a strong relationship between flying and doing research? The answer from the scientists themselves: It's simple. No airplanes means no science. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2357.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Science Takes Off (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Charles Hood Lake Hoare camp manager Rae Spain hooks a sling load onto a helicopter at Lake Bonney in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Helicopters are vital to the research conducted by the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Science takes off Writer explores connection between aviation and polar research
“It’s so big!” some... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2357 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f4e432c6f701eb5bb9f4af7f3f2e5c61586266a0c2fad8ae94b03fd6edd468b9.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:29 | null | null | Scientists have revealed a key cog in the biochemical machinery that allows marine algae at the base of the oceanic food web to thrive. They have discovered a previously unknown protein in algae that grabs the essential but scarce nutrient B12 out of seawater, based on studies conducted around the Southern Ocean. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2679.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/b12_228433.jpg | en | null | Vitamin a day | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Tom Kleindinst/WHOI Erin Bertrand, right, studies how marine phytoplankton get, use and compete for nutrients in the ocean. She worked with her advisor, WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito, left, whose lab group has been working to advance techniques using proteomics to study critical proteins in the mari... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2679 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0694ec252316d7015c9ceffe2e2dae9a5f5dbb6a3c50bad3fabc782a82948bed.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:28 | null | null | Children's author Nancy Etchemendy, known for spinning science fiction and horror tales for young adults, hopes to tell the story of an Antarctic science expedition to the Weddell Sea through her own self-described “gothic sensibilities,” as well as through the words of a curious boy named Gib Finney. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1420.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/NancyE.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Rob Sherlock An iceberg in the Weddell Sea not only sheds ice but apparently micronutrients that increase phytoplankton blooms, which mostly consist of algae that absorb carbon dioxide. Children's author Nancy Etchemendy will get a close look at some bergs in June aboard a research vessel, as she writes a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1420 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/67a24079e2cf3a365f830e68d83282fc48664c1a0996bd5ed69458d065895055.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:45 | null | null | A new study by an international team of scientists in the Aug. 30 issue of the prestigious journal Nature suggests that Antarctica could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2735.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/ice-block-200.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library The Transantarctic Mountains peak out from the vast Antarctic ice sheet. An international team of scientists recently reported that Antarctica could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Gas leak?
Antarctic ice may hide vast reservo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2735 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/68088fefaedcff97d19ad2726d622766dad5a6668865f8207f54add59c1cddc0.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:24 | null | null | A science team led by researchers from Brigham Young University and NASA has spent the last two field seasons in West Antarctica driving snowmobiles and pulling the latest high-tech radars hundreds of kilometers across the ice to find out just how much snow is falling. That will help future predictions of sea-level ris... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2648.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/IMG_2663.jpg | en | null | Not sitting down | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Clément Miège Lora Koenig, left, and Clément Miège operate the two SEAT traverse radars that image the top 30 meters or so of the ice sheet. The project is seeking to verify if remote sensing data jive with on-the-ground measurements of snowfall, an important component to predict the mass balance of ice s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2648 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/47b339bb1975941dc0c695774c55dcddc6ebce384cb6ddac2dfe1b5c25b682d7.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:14:31 | null | null | An international meeting to discuss marine conservation in Antarctica resulted in several measures to strengthen protections in the Southern Ocean, though much-anticipated decisions to create large marine protected areas around the continent eluded delegates. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2776.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/CROZIEREMPERORS1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kelly Speelman/Antarctic Photo Library Debenham Glacier looking east toward the Ross Sea, where the United States and New Zealand had hoped to establish a marine protectd area at last month's meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Still fishing
Establishment o... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2776 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/141c3d57018bf8216ffaa1c00f21cef5d6819bf4f813cee24734b0fbf2e58266.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:26 | null | null | Nothing is easy about working and living at the U.S. Antarctic Program’s South Pole Station, located on a plateau of ice nearly two miles high. Even being a firefighter there makes routine tasks more difficult. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2384.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/pole_fd_elephantman.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A Caterpillar tractor, dubbed "Elephant Man," serves as the fire truck for the Antarctic Fire Department' Fire Station No. 3 at the South Pole Station. The professionally trained firefighters are responsible for airfield safety while the New York Air National Guard flies during the summer fie... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2384 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/90d0466536ec8b9c8a91b776188a214476f09a01b5443abdb8d66efd0ff63854.json |
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"Stephanie Krzywonos"
] | 2016-08-26T13:03:14 | null | null | Brisk winds blew through a bundled-up crowd, as they collectively bobbed their heads and swayed along to live music. The musicians played below large blue cutout letters that spelled out “ICESTOCK,” McMurdo Station’s annual New Year’s celebration and the world’s southernmost outdoor music festival. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4202.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/icestock16-banner.jpg | en | null | Icestock Rings in the New Year | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Stephanie Krzywonos The band "Alicia and the Bad Decisions" performs at this this year's Icestock.
Icestock Rings in the New Year
Brisk winds blew through a bundled-up crowd, as they collectively bobbed their heads and swayed along to live music. Even though it was close to midnight, there was no need for... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4202 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ab74e52e188ca5cccb55ce67d3fe261cde3bebfbf459e24b84508d9ceb39ef82.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:48 | null | null | Microbiologists from the University of Minnesota are still learning just how hardy several recently discovered species of molds are as part of an effort to preserve historic structures around the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1243.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Microbe sampling (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Robert Blanchette Brett Arenz and Joel Jurgens retrieve samples to identify microbes present in the soil on Ross Island. In the background is a test panel of wood treatments, used to evaluate the different compounds’ response to the Antarctic environment.
Scientists tackle Antarctic mold
Study... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1243 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cc8abf101728530fd68c4375f9fde75f9efb14cc1a2b85c07a3bdd0f806c4db0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:08 | null | null | The sea ice in McMurdo Sound has broken up to an extent not seen since 1998. The ice this year has broken out so far into McMurdo Sound that McMurdo Station's personnel will need to move the airfield road, seen in the foreground of the picture above, and fuel tanks for safety reasons. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2367.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/mcm_icebreak.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ryan Wallace
Cracking up Ice in McMurdo Sound breaks up in dramatic fashion not seen since 1998
The sea ice in McMurdo Sound has broken up to an extent not seen since 1998. The calving of a huge iceberg in 2000 off the Ross Ice Shelf had clogged the mouth of McMurdo Sound for much of the decade, preventin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2367 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6869abf56f1da4577f88172074ba02375017fc3c4da286f3487ad798f322976f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:20:37 | null | null | Antarctica's First Lady, Edith "Jackie" Ronne, wife of the famed polar explorer Finn Ronne and the first American woman to visit the continent in the 1940s, has passed away. She was 89. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1808.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ronne2.jpg | en | null | RIP Edith 'Jackie' Ronne | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: U.S. Navy RIP Edith 'Jackie' Ronne First Lady of Antarctica passes away at age 89 Antarctica’s First Lady, Edith “Jackie” Ronne, wife of the famed polar explorer Finn Ronne and the first American woman to visit the continent in the 1940s, has passed away. She was 89. Ronne, along with Canadian Jennie Da... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1808 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6dc6aae1993f817f3d5f32cfb0f840a419d5ce3876cfa9fbdd616e051881f1ea.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:20 | null | null | Michèle Gentille's stories conjure images of European chateaus and cavernous wine cellars, with her life like a cross between a Condé Naste travel article and a restaurant review in Food and Wine magazine. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1359.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/cook.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek South Pole sous chef Michèle Gentille prepares cheese enchiladas for lunch. Gentille has worked in kitchens across Europe, and has been employed as a personal assistant to several celebrities, including Heather Graham and Liv Tyler. She also works as a freelance food writer.
Cooking in the co... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1359 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3af18ee6d60478d5e60ac77938d4f265f73785e9cf1ee2ee6f7f79bfbf001649.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:04 | null | null | A different sort of countdown was under way on New Year’s Eve at a remote field camp in West Antarctica. In this case, the count literally went down to near the bottom of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where drillers extracted about 72 more meters of ice cores in five days, reaching a final depth of 3,405 meters for the... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2566.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/wais_voigt.jpg | en | null | The Last Core (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Don Voigt/WAIS Divide Scientist Don Voigt logs the last meter of WAIS Divide ice core from a depth of 3,404 meters. The research team deepened the borehole by more than 70 meters over last year, when project personnel had completed major coring operations after five years of drilling. The project represen... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2566 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/de2c8ad86a5940865ab7a23c3e6ffa80531a984a3c38cea75e05eef32d8205be.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:45 | null | null | A new paper in the prestigious journal Nature suggests that 34 million years decreasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere initiated the glaciation of Antarctica, not the formation of the world's largest ocean current around the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4067.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/dalziel_ian.jpg | en | null | Shutting the door | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dave Munroe/Antarctic Photo Library Waves crash over the stern of the research vessel NATHANIEL B. PALMER near Antarctica. Researchers must brave tough conditions to collect samples from the seafloor that may provide information about the formation of the ocean gateway between Antarctica and South America... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4067 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b5cac2bd0fc477aa32145b04a39e30d286e86cb4bad6fbe8efec3126383b8a86.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:28:17 | null | null | A team of glaciologists associated with the multidisciplinary LARISSA project is headed back to the Antarctic Peninsula this month to repair equipment left on several glaciers meant to track changes in the region after the disintegration of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in 2002. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2288.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | From the Field: LARISSA Revisited | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Ted Scambos/NSIDC
From the field Glaciology team returns to Antarctic Peninsula to repair, remove equipment Previous coverage Changing course
LARISSA
A team of glaciologists associated with the multidisciplinary LARISSA (LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica) project is headed back to the Antarctic Penins... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2288 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2f3c46328fe4e2f5b11d0d90a999a0648c35e0fd0d7a7c7af95444eda98babab.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:05 | null | null | A newly discovered chemical compound found in an Antarctic sea sponge shows promise as a potential way to develop treatments against the fortified form of some of the most virulent antibiotic-resistant infections. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4238.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Antibiotics from a Sponge | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bill Baker A Dendrilla membranosa sponge grows at Killer Whale rocks off of Palmer Station.
Antibiotics from a Sponge
Could a new compound from Antarctic sea sponges be the key to breaching MRSA’s impregnable barricades?
Photo Credit: Jim McClintock Bill Baker and his team dive off of Palmer Station to co... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4238 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c0aab519bedb50f6693bb07929dfaf379bae3aa12064aa87058c278c05210d9b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:12 | null | null | Scientists creating a network to triangulate and pinpoint lightning strikes around the world are using a very narrow band of radio waves to detect the phenomena over long distances. The small network of very low frequency (VLF) receivers includes stations in the Antarctic, including at Palmer Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1228.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/ryan lightning (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Ryan Said Ryan Said kneels by an array antenna near Palmer Station in 2004. Said’s network of very low frequency receivers uses an electromagnetic pulse generated by a lightning strike to triangulate the strike’s location.
Network uses radio waves to log lightning
Scientists creating a network... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1228 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/68ea781cbf9a42cc85a944ecbab473a7726c89594c3bcc8fc157dbda0b764605.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:31 | null | null | One era ended and another began on Jan. 12, 2008, when the American flag was lowered from its place on top of the iconic South Pole dome and then raised over the new multi-million-dollar elevated station. A delegation of federal officials from the United States joined station personnel in dedicating the new Amundsen-Sc... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1315.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Dedication main photo2.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credits: Peter Rejcek The new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station was officially dedicated on Jan. 12, 2008. At left, four veteran Polies lower the flag over the iconic dome. Top right: Arden Bement, head of the NSF, prepares to raise the USAP flag. Bottom right: Station personnel pose in front of the new station.
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:03:38 | null | null | Outgoing Antarctic Sun editor Peter Rejcek reflects on his tenure with the U.S. Antarctic Program, which started more than a decade ago at the South Pole Station. Until then, the former Texan had never really driven in snow before. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4149.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/pole-growth-chamber-crew.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Elaine Hood Antarctic Sun editor Peter Rejcek shoots a photo of scientist David Ainley and field assistant Jean Pennycook attaching a satellite tag to an Adélie penguin at the Cape Royds colony.
So long, and thanks for all the fine memories
Long-serving editor of the Sun reflects on 'the USAP, the Ice, an... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4149 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a92527ab61b5552a2a20d2636bb6f14ca7de74e9ecd6e55892a510c4f579ab7a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:33 | null | null | The National Science Foundation presented President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2012 budget request of $7.767 billion last week, an increase of nearly $900 million, or 13 percent, over last year. NSF’s Office of Polar Program would receive $477.41 million under the 2012 fiscal budget plan, a 5.8 percent increase. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2366.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/mcm_helopad_crary.jpg | en | null | NSF FY2012 budget | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek The Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center at McMurdo Station, with the chalet administration building at right and helicopter pad in the foreground. Antarctic sciences would receive more than $76 million under President Obama's proposed budget.
NSF FY2012 budget OPP request focuses o... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2366 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4de1c3606e1dfa09283c4dfbc377b6b8b3d1ed2dec6691bb268ba7af65913223.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:33 | null | null | Is anybody listening? That was the subject for a panel of science writers who recently participated in an energy and climate change symposium at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While climate change remains a complex issue for the public, there are signs that somebody is listening. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1543.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/gustav.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA Hurricane Gustav lashes Louisiana on Sept. 1 in this satellite-based image from NASA. Scientists are still debating whether human-induced climate change is responsible for fiercer storms, but elsewhere evidence is mounting that ecosystems are changing.
Is anybody listening? Climate change evidence mo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1543 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b8296990c3f7ca6acd53c1922c7f539333e066750360a798f15040a4103d980d.json |
[
"Michèle Gentille",
"South Pole Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:44 | null | null | It seems only appropriate that a guy with the first name of Steele would work as a machinist during the winter at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. But machinist Steele Diggles stands out in a community known for its unique, well-traveled personalities thanks to a career that could be featured on television’s popular ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1836.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Erik Verhagen Steele Diggles at the machinist shop in MAPO at the South Pole this winter. In addition to being an accomplished machinist, Diggles has worked for law enforcement as a forensics expert. This winter he will manufacture the 2010 South Pole geographic marker, which he also designed.
Moving part... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1836 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/058069b7f77605a91ff35e62206de8e2db8df5001d40731f47f2401160102e7e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:41 | null | null | A C-17 Globemaster III, flown by airmen from McChord Air Force Base in Washington, airdropped more than 20,000 pounds of cargo at the South Pole on Dec. 19 in a training exercise designed to keep personnel sharp in the case of an emergency. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1302.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/airdrop 4.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chad Carpenter
Dropping in
Air Force C-17 delivers cargo to South Pole in training mission
A C-17 Globemaster III, flown by airmen from McChord Air Force Base in Washington, airdropped more than 20,000 pounds of cargo at the South Pole on Dec. 19, in a training exercise designed to keep personnel sharp in... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1302 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a1983fac2aa143e22acf29b5430aeca24286590ced5ebbfab142433e0356701b.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:07 | null | null | Antarctica is a natural laboratory that draws hundreds of scientists down to the southern hemisphere each year to conduct research. However, an experiment under way this winter falls a bit outside the norm. The National Science Foundation and Department of Energy have teamed up on a project to test just how well an all... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2424.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/evehicle_nrel.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kent Colby/Antarctic Photo Library One of two electric-powered vehicles is driven off an Air Force C-17 jet at McMurdo Station's Pegasus Airfield. The small utility trucks will be tested over the next year to see how they fare in Antarctica's harsh climate.
Plugged in USAP tests electric vehicles during w... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2424 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d4341de93b4e0b847d6d262046f0e970e972e0a42654cdc1a988cda820f5591d.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:51 | null | null | The phrase “going with the flow” takes on a different meaning for scientists studying how tides along the Antarctic Peninsula influence where Adélie penguins go to forage for food during their breeding cycle. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3019.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/ADELIES12.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Josh Kohut A researcher stands near one of the antennae that is part of a radar array that will be used to measure the speed and direction of ocean surface currents in near real time to understand how the physical ocean affects the Antarctic food web.
Converging factors
New project to use radar array to d... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3019 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ab2f41208a61e1270f489740a99d497090fd99e7a7030354bfbbfffbd19bba04.json |
[
"Ben Bachelder",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:41 | null | null | Ben Bachelder braves Antarctic storms, high altitudes and persnickety stoves in the support of science. He tells the tale of setting up camp in the middle of East Antarctica, an area of high scientific interest and a useful place if you want to shed a few pounds as well. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1685.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ben Bachelder Workers erect a polar haven at the AGAP South camp in East Antarctica in December. In January, scientists used the camp as a base to study a subglacial mountain range that may have served as ground zero for the East Antarctic ice sheet.
Prepping for science A first-person account of working ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1685 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c1e5963621b8c88e212ff8f37f74bac03e52947a96083a4ccdebf5188d8d5f2b.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:24 | null | null | The Transantarctic Mountains are the world’s third longest mountain range. Yet it is perhaps the least understood due to the thick ice sheets that cover most of the mountains. Geologists don’t even agree on how the TAM first formed. A new project to study the rock structure below may offer some clues. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2954.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/DB_StationService.jpg | en | null | Getting at the root cause | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Doug Bloomquist Scientists unbury a seismic station that was buried by snow in the Transantarctic Mountains. The site was installed last year and serviced this season as part of a 15-station array to look at the structure of the mountains below the ice to understand how they were formed.
Getting at the ro... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2954 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2b0e045ad4614aac3048b1aeee7b746f0ab7c0ff6c8e5066a772ccdd9d2864ab.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:27 | null | null | A supraglacial stream on the Cotton Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys contains a unique type of dissolved organic matter found nowhere else in the world. Researchers are interested in learning more about its chemical characteristics as it evolves over time. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2354.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/COTTONGLACIERQUEERMTN2.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Christine Foreman Scientists Michael San Clements and Maya Wei-Haas sample the supraglacial stream on the Cotton Glacier in November 2010 while the stream was only a few centimeters deep. The waters rose quickly, swallowing instruments that the researchers left in the stream, which contains a unique type ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2354 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ef388d895011775927f6ea19ff52d28afe372af53d8299922b085e6c314a6e9f.json |
[
"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:43 | null | null | The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., is rolling back the clock on the satellite record for tracking sea ice in the polar regions. NSIDC is releasing new sea ice data from the 1960s after scanning nearly 40,000 images and stitching them together to create composite images. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2845.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/polar-regions-sea-ice-1964.jpg | en | null | Rolling back the clock | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: NSIDC The National Snow and Ice Data Center scanned close to 40,000 images from Nimbus 1 satellite data to produce the earliest satellite images of Arctic, left, and Antarctic sea ice extent in the 1960s.
Rolling back the clock
NSIDC scientists reconstruct sea ice extent around polar regions from 1960s ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2845 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/048e54709aa264fbb54889ce516b91208194e13996371d8c29cf800c26c94d53.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:17 | null | null | It was never supposed to hang around this long. Perhaps that’s why the South Pole Dome — a modestly sized structure spanning 164 feet and topping out at about 52 feet high — has loomed so large in the lore and legacy of polar history. Now, 35 years after its dedication, the icon is coming down. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1984.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/dome_crown.jpg | en | null | Deconstruction of the Dome | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Forest Banks A South Pole construction crew removes the crown of the dome on Dec. 18, 2009. The crown, along with the top two rows of panels, will be donated to a Navy museum in Port Hueneme, Calif. Navy Seabees built the dome in the 1970s. The entire dome will be taken down this year and eventually shipp... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1984 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/44624b0804ac9d6ee56548584b0b5de29dda525302d45d3b3468793b07429dd4.json |
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