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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:28 | null | null | More than 15 years since first discovering dinosaur bones on Antarctica’s Mount Kirkpatrick, scientists confirmed this month that the remains belonged to a previously undiscovered genus and species from the Early Jurassic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1300.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/dinosaur painting.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Painting by William Stout; copyright William Hammer Artist’s reconstruction of Glacialisaurus hammeri and Antarctica during the Early Jurassic 190 millions years ago, with several pterosaurs in the background, and a small mammal-like reptile in the foreground. Scientists recently confirmed that remains found 15 years a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1300 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3147141a4c508f64e047fa2e74f458b328c4d5cbe088c7421ef6109194e27d18.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:33 | null | null | Already one of the fastest warming regions on the planet, where penguin colonies are blinking out of existence and hordes of king crabs are invading up the continental slope, the Antarctic Peninsula will likely be one of the first places where the effects of a more acidic ocean are first felt. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2636.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: Chuck Amsler Scientists Kate Schoenrock, left, and Julie Schram set up the ocean acidification and temperature experiments in the Palmer Station aquarium. There are two temperature treatments maintained by circulating water baths and three pH treatments maintained by microprocessor-controlled CO2 additi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2636 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3379ed124081e6f5fc64816f34a18e0b1dfaf474fd116fb1a706facac193873a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:08 | null | null | Microscopic bacteria in the ocean play a big role in the food web and carbon cycle, two interrelated processes that affect life on Earth. How abundant and active a particular subgroup of sun-loving microbes is in the Southern Ocean remains a mystery that a team of researchers is trying to unlock. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2705.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/DELACAMOON.jpg | en | null | Lighter side of microbes | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Matthew Cottrell Mrinalini Nikrad, Tommy Purcell, Jill Mikucki and Julie Schram, from left, sample the sunlit surface layer of the coastal ocean along the western Antarctic Peninsula to collect marine microbes. Researchers are interested in the role of sun-loving bacteria in the carbon cycle and food web.... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2705 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4e490e2c42c0d5347e40f7297a6be82735c71888be8b34260af36568f20c3c6d.json |
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"Elke Bergholz"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:05 | null | null | Elke Bergholz has been to the bottom of the world twice in nine years as a teacher, though there are no children in Antarctica. She says the experience is about much more than just “having been there.” In a personal essay, she writes the memories and experiences will linger with her forever. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1376.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/button-top.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Elke Bergholz Elke Bergholz carries a carbon dioxide collector field case back to the Atmospheric Research Observatory in the Clean Air Sector at the South Pole. The science teacher from New York assisted a research team collecting data on atmospheric pollutants during the 2007-08 season.
There and back... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1376 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/605ba4b243d7747fc0ba354b9557eb667b1cfee82d138016b6ed570cdd417158.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:53 | null | null | The Fuels Department at McMurdo Station keeps the U.S. Antarctic Program moving. It's not a job for the faint of heart, as fuelies must work on the coldest days, whether it's tranferring fuel across 14 miles on an ice shelf or emptying a tanker ship of five million gallons of gas. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2830.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/fuels-tank-construction.jpg | en | null | Riding the Line (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Fuelie Laurel Nelson confirms that a clamp on the fuel line to Pegasus Airfield has been opened. One of the main jobs of the Fuels Department at McMurdo Station is to transfer 100,000 gallons of fuel to the airfield at least once per week in the summer.
Riding the line
Fuels department at McM... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2830 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/007ec8e05fd79f7457717fc6c7aeb26406ad8b0dc95229d41289358dec80b116.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:46 | null | null | The fuel tanker Maersk Peary made its annual port call at McMurdo Station, where it unloaded about 3.5 million gallons of fuel in less than 48 hours. The fuel will be used to power two research stations, vessels, airplanes, vehicles and helicopters for the coming year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2975.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/fuel-tanker-coast-guard-pier.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
Fueling up
Tanker delivers 3.5 million gallons of gas to McMurdo Station
Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Fuel hoses snake away from the tanker MAERSK PEARY during offload on Monday, Jan. 27.
The fuel tanker Maersk Peary , above left, approaches the McMurdo Station ice pier, escorted by the U.S. Co... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2975 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/81619a1c54d86b181a92b2d2d6c0568f6e672a669913d4bbe14ed3939be1d16c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:54 | null | null | The International Polar Year has officially ended, but it appears the National Science Foundation is only getting started in West Antarctica, with several large-scale research projects scheduled over the next half-dozen years. The revival of Byrd Surface Camp is a key component to support the robust fieldwork. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1792.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Byrd Camp resurfaces | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kevin Pettway A Scott tent sits on the location of Byrd Surface Camp, a deep-field site that used to support science in West Antarctica. The NSF is resurrecting the field camp beginning this year to support a new array of science projects.
Byrd Camp resurfaces NSF to resurrect deep-field site to support m... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1792 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/df4e21d98989f756763bed66b66951f68eed9afb5c124ac36df2ef3c311046d6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:26 | null | null | A grant recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Rogers spent about six weeks on the Ice in 2005. A writer and college professor who specializes in editing anthologies, her own love affair with the continent began as a young girl listening to her father’s stories about the S... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1280.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photos Courtesy: Susan Fox Rogers Writer and editor Susan Fox Rogers, right, spent six weeks in Antarctica to develop an anthology of Antarctic writing. The book, published in September 2007, features 20 creative nonfiction stories from all walks of life and experience.
Life on the Ice
Susan Fox Rogers assembles anthol... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1280 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a2f362dfe3f289da323569f362ffb4114f888cffc8b3938f1614d87d1cbdb9dc.json |
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"Jean Pennycook",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:29 | null | null | Penguins truly are one of the feel-good animals in the popular imagination. But there is very little fun loving or playful about the lives of Adélies. They live in the most brutal environment in the world. Yet these birds are masters in their environment, yet do no damage, supreme in their ability to survive. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2346.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Penguin Perspective (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Jean Pennycook Jean Pennycook observes the Adélie penguins at Cape Royds on Ross Island, Antarctica. Pennycook is the education and outreach coordinator for a long-term research program on the penguin colonies around the Ross Sea led by David Ainley.
The penguin perspective These 'cuddly' birds live on ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2346 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/61ef5d0a866f0faf6f28aa1a0f58bf0f1bec270b347526508d6e16ca00571489.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:09 | null | null | Not much more than a large, icy bump on the northern edge of the nearly Texas-sized Ross Ice Shelf, Roosevelt Island is the site of an international research campaign to learn more about the climate and deglaciation history of the region for the last 30,000 years or more. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2708.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/RICE-camp-satellite.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Thomas Beers A big beautiful sky dominates the horizon on Roosevelt Island, with the RICE field camp at the bottom left. Scientists are drilling an ice core about 750 meters deep in an effort to reconstruct the climate of the Ross Sea region. Another group is taking measurements with GPS and radar to map ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2708 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8735d61c02f1a0a6659300c91c9029b3a49cb087a812a9d94607353234177312.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:53 | null | null | The theory that close relatives of modern birds once co-existed with non-avian dinosaurs before a mass extinction 65 million years ago had trouble flying with many paleontologists until recently. Scientist Julia Clarke hopes to get her hands on additional material from Antarctica during an upcoming expedition that will... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2338.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: N. Adam Smith Julia Clarke exposes a wing feature on a fossilized penguin specimen recovered from Peru. She and colleagues found evidence from fossils collected in Antarctica in the 1990s that at least one species related to modern birds lived at the same time as dinosaurs. She and a science team are head... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2338 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8765a7806ea935b24df20103259aa7e1e61daccb8f1124d14fcba221308e9a60.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:19 | null | null | A European Space Agency satellite has shown that one of West Antarctica’s most unstable ice shelves has halved in size in the last decade since a major break-up occurred in 2002. Meanwhile, U.S. Antarctic Program scientists are engaged in a second major expedition to the region to understand the Larsen B system. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2645.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: Ted Scambos/NSIDC Scientists assemble an AMIGOS tower on the Cape of Disappointment in November 2011. The observatory has various instruments to monitor the remnant of the Larsen B Ice Shelf, which continues to shrink dramatically, according to recent satellite data.
Shrinking back Larsen B Ice Shelf appe... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2645 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7b84065513c0d4ad035f89d2831928a758f9bff2950e487bb659554265cd7e97.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:57 | null | null | Charles R. Stearns, the father of the U.S. Antarctic Program’s Automatic Weather Station system and a pioneer in polar meteorology, died on Tuesday, June 22, 2010. He was 85. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2181.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/stearns_weather%20station_composite.jpg | en | null | R.I.P.: Charles R. Stearns | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photos Courtesy: University of Wisconsin-Madison Charles R. Stearns, inset, spent nearly 30 years as the principal investigator on a project that created a network of automatic weather stations across Antarctica. The pioneering meteorologist died on June 22, 2010. He was 85.
R.I.P.: Charles R. Stearns UW-Madison profes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2181 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/68282957102c2c040541a203d3f3897b44de465a36a162fd6c7dc034dad8cf16.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:01 | null | null | Paul Morin and his mapmakers at the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota are doing all they can to ensure the whole world can get a good look at Antarctica by teaming up with Google. The Internet giant is putting high-resolution satellite imagery of the continent into its mapping applications. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2550.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/google_erebus.jpg | en | null | Antarctica on Google | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: ©Google, ©Digital Globe, ©GeoEye The Mackay Glacier Tongue in Granite Harbor is one of the features that anyone with an Internet connection can now see in sharp detail thanks to an informal partnership between the Polar Geospatial Center and Google.
Antarctica on Google PGC teams with Internet giant to pr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2550 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e1962174869d0def1f501e55c1b7c8c03c94c229257481e55bfe84caf916e513.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:36 | null | null | Sridhar Anandakrishnan never had any ambitions on becoming an Earth scientist, let alone a specialist in the behavior of Antarctic ice, while attending graduate school in the 1980s. Now a professor at Pennsylvania State University, Anandakrishnan has made 17 trips to the Ice in the last 25 years, becoming the foremost ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2296.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/sridhar_students.jpg | en | null | Upon further reflection | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sridhar Anandakrishnan Huw Horgan, left, and Paul Winberry, both former students of Sridhar Anandakrishnan at Penn State University, perform field work in the summer of 2007 in Greenland. Both men are now scientists at other institutions, using seismic techniques, among others, to learn about Antarctic ic... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2296 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/04866fe0fe1cb15695824cb240001d08b483c031777a8bfae4503338e9e580c9.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:01 | null | null | The early summer season flights arrived in McMurdo later than normal to help the U.S. Antarctic Program save money in a tight fiscal environment. For Terry Deshler’s group, which studies the annual ozone depletion over Antarctica, that means more than two weeks of lost data. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1530.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/ozone_launch.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Terry Deshler The University of Wyoming science team launches a balloon carrying an ozonesonde from near the sea ice at McMurdo Station in 2005. The group has measured ozone depletion for more than 20 years.
Ozone hole Project continues to monitor annual depletion event despite late start to season
The ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1530 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e04bb9871e5e927c05c0449d104696143befc6da593fcf70e16fcdef719de5b5.json |
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"Catherine Morrell",
"Ryan Wallace",
"Mcmurdo Station Correspondents"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:52 | null | null | Preparing McMurdo Station for the summer field season in Antarctica is never an easy task. But this year has been a real battle with the elements by support personnel, especially those who drive the big vehicles that are used to build runways, roads and piers made of ice. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2534.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/mcm_seaice_runway.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ryan Wallace Dan Mahon, with McMurdo's Field Safety Training Program, inspects a crack in the sea ice. Heavy storms and warm temperatures caused many cracks that stubbornly refused to freeze up enough for tracked vehicles to safely pass during September.
Icy conditions McMurdo personnel battle the element... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2534 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b173eb6d1d81c117bca68e6bd3fd1c74d65f73ef96c12e84b7f65b746d603ee7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:18 | null | null | All directions point north from the geographic South Pole. The new 2014 geographic South Pole marker, designed as an equatorial sundial, makes that point abundantly clear, as it was unveiled in a special ceremony on January 1. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2957.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | All points north | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credits: Andrea Dixon
All points north
2014 geographic South Pole marker unveiled on New Year's Day
All directions point north from the geographic South Pole. The new 2014 geographic South Pole marker, designed as an equatorial sundial, makes that point abundantly clear in the above picture. The South Pole Statio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2957 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/813573e25aab7fab880d68709039a3460b5c8e6271a94d04035c5c9289f15f2b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:54 | null | null | Adélie penguins living at the far southern extreme of their geographic range in Antarctica migrate an average of about 13,000 kilometers during the year as they follow the sun from their breeding colonies to winter foraging grounds and back again. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2230.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/button-top.gif | en | null | On the move | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Viola Toniolo Two Adélie penguins, with the one in the foreground sporting a satellite tag used to track its migration from its southern breeding grounds at Ross Island to the north in the winter and back again.
On the move Researchers follow Adélie penguin winter migration for the first time
Adélie pengu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2230 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e1ea246100829a1e0c3a4bcec24a62133eac289bd9c0014c7f5521e08c974e58.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:43 | null | null | A team of Norwegian and American researchers will take a long trek into one of the most understudied regions of Antarctica this austral summer during a 10-week, overland traverse of Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica. The joint campaign, an International Polar Year (IPY) project, will study how climate variability r... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1239.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/track_dates (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of Norwegian-U.S. IPY Traverse Tracked vehicles, similar to this one at left, will carry the traverse scientists, their equipment and fuel across East Antarctica for hundreds of kilometers. The lead vehicle will be equipped with a radar to sense crevasses.
Norway, U.S. team up for IPY traverse
Sc... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1239 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/56794cf403a6a2792ed3c7296154f89af1dd6f2aa09b71cf1ac7e7db61fd20e8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:11 | null | null | Scientists, diplomats and others involved in supporting research in Antarctica and the Arctic converged in Baltimore, Md., this month for the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting to discuss topics ranging from climate change to tourism. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1757.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ROYALSOCIETYBRATINA.jpg | en | null | Antarctic Treaty meeting | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Priscu/Antarctic Photo Library The Royal Society Range of Antarctica bathed in late autumn light during March 2008, during the height of the International Polar Year. The Antarctic Treaty helps protect the continent's environment for peaceful, scientific pursuits.
Antarctic Treaty meeting Conference ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1757 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fe61c832beedf3c19888ebf0e01dcff5ae46c381864237963415ec138b88fd38.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:33 | null | null | Researchers involved in the United States component of the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) make use of many tools, from ice cores to satellites, as they attempt to reconstruct the continent’s climatic history over the last 200 to 1,000-plus years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1384.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/ITASE_dixon.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. ITASE Web site ITASE team member Dan Dixon measures the diameter of an ice core during the 2007-08 field season. The U.S. ITASE team has collected more than 40 ice cores from around the continent during six seasons of field work. A number of other nations are conducting similar work in Antarctica.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:37 | null | null | The U.S. Antarctic Program got a major communications upgrade in 2009-10 thanks to ongoing work to establish a key satellite receptor site at McMurdo Station for a new-generation weather and climate satellite system for the United States. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2114.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: Doug Whiteley The Black Island communications facility near McMurdo Station. Upgrades to satellite antennas have significantly increased the bandwidth available to the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is hosting a key receptor site at McMurdo for a new weather and climate satellite system that must move larg... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2114 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c6c3998ef6191b101f4e35ea3c4c24c78186ddfd482053e1f72c673be6fd13d0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:37 | null | null | You're alone for the next eight months of the year at the bottom of the world. What do you do to keep busy? You rock ... the South Pole Station held a major music festival last month to entertain the staff and scientists. Look out, American Idol. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1427.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/polestock7.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Heidi Lim South Pole band The ReTardis performs at Pole Stock 2008 at the gym in the Elevated Station. Five bands and two solo acts turned the event into a six-hour music marathon that featured everything from thrash metal to original acoustic tunes. We want to rock South Pole music festival pools diverse... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1427 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/887694f0d4ead5e709e9a791eb10985d52be3c0d1ee86076dbaf0174c59817a0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:52 | null | null | Reports in early February confirm that Russian scientists have penetrated a lake buried deep under an ice sheet in remote East Antarctica after about two decades of drilling. Scientists are hopeful they may find unique microorganisms in the freshwater body that have been isolated from the environment for possibly milli... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2587.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: Todd Sowers/LDEO, Columbia University Russia's Vostok Station in 2001. The station was founded in December 1957 during the International Geophysical Year. Years later, scientists realized a large subglacial lake existed below. Russian researchers reportedly penetrated the lake in early February 2012.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:04 | null | null | The fish that swim in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica have evolved over millions of years to survive and thrive in salty ocean water that hovers around minus 1.8 degrees centigrade at its coldest. But what might happen to them in a warming world? A team of scientists goes fishing to find out. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1843.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/icefish_jeff.jpg | en | null | Feeling the heat | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kristin O'Brien Bruce Sidell, foreground, assists with deploying fish traps during a 2007 science cruise. Sidell, Kristin O'Brien and their colleagues are collecting icefish for experiments to determine if some are more sensitive to changes in temperature than others — and what mechanism is responsible.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:12 | null | null | Two years after a rift was spotted in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, an iceberg reportedly the size of Singapore has completely detached from Antarctica and is slowly heading out to sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2940.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: NASA Aqua satellite
Floating away
Pine Island Glacier iceberg heads out to sea
And away it goes.
Two years after a rift was spotted in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, an iceberg reportedly the size of Singapore has completely detached from Antarctica and is slowly heading out to sea.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:08 | null | null | Antarctica is, among other things, Earth’s highest, driest and coldest continent. The South Pole epitomizes those qualities, and it is also home to support facilities, making it an ideal vantage point for deep-space surveys by projects such as the South Pole Telescope. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1233.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Pole night sky (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chris Danals The 24-hour darkness is one ingredient in making the Pole an ideal site for astronomers. Red lights are used outside during the winter darkness as their spectrum causes less interference for observers. The green light in the sky is the aurora australis.
Pole an ideal spot for astronomers
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] | 2016-08-26T12:56:12 | null | null | The sudden loss of power and heat at a British Antarctic research base this month during the austral winter is a potential nightmare scenario for anyone wintering over on the world’s coldest continent. How would U.S. facilities respond and cope with the disaster? | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4063.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/PolePowerPlant2.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Tim Bisbee/Antarctic Photo Library A lineman performs jumper repairs during a planned electrical outage at McMurdo Station near the Chapel of the Snows during the middle of the winter. Vigilance surrounding life support systems at Antarctic research stations was recently in the news with the loss of power... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4063 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3c2ea4331002b668b53b32dcc1b62527c96b1f310d6567740514bd4a7a9b1739.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:52 | null | null | The final push by a team of U.S. scientists to explore a lake nearly a kilometer below the ice sheet is about to begin. Their destination: subglacial Lake Whillans, a liquid body of water trapped under about 800 meters of ice. Their mission: To make some of the first explorations of a subglacial ecosystem. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2793.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/wissard-traverse-peyton-adkins.jpg | en | null | Poised for the Plunge (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Brent Christner Overview of the drill set up at the WISSARD test site near McMurdo Station in December 2012. The crane lifts the load transfer case that holds the scientific instruments in place over the borehole. The platform and equipment arrived at the subglacial Lake Whillans field site this week.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:41 | null | null | In more than four decades since Don Siniff, now a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, helped pioneer the study of Weddell seal populations, researchers have carried out their annual census despite lean budget years, summer storms and other wild extremes that come with working in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2588.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 Scientists Thierry Chambert, right, and Jesse DeVoe walk among Weddell Seals on the sea ice near McMurdo Station. They are part of a team conducting a long-term population dynamics study on the Weddell seal colonies in a place called Erebus Bay.
Sealed and delivered Long-term population study... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2588 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d0c6c391668e7035a73186f4016f468bdf25019f60eb3f4786e48a9db6837d7d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:38 | null | null | The South Pole geographic marker doesn't just relocate to 90 degrees south each year on January 1. It also gets a new look, one of the many traditions that have evolved at South Pole over the years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1998.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/markers_2009.jpg | en | null | A Good Point (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Forest Banks Personnel at the South Pole Station form a daisy chain as they pass the new geographic marker onto its new location on Jan. 1, 2010. The geographic marker is relocated each summer because the ice moves about 10 meters a year.
A good point South Pole geographic marker changes with the times
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:39 | null | null | It’s been 26 years since the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) had held one of its biannual meetings in the United States before July’s gathering of about 900 scientists, national program managers, students and others in Portland, Ore. It was long overdue, according to outgoing SCAR President Mahlon “Ch... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2718.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Changing with the times | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Portland State University About 900 scientists, students and others from more than 30 nations took part in the biennial meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in Portland, Ore., in July. It was the first time in 26 years that the nongovernmental organization met in the United States.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:59 | null | null | The IceCube Neutrino Observatory recently made headlines for delving into particle physics with the announcement that the under-ice telescope observed the highest-energy neutrino oscillations ever detected. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2690.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 A digital optical module is lowered into the ice at the South Pole in 2010 for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The under-ice telescope recently observed the highest-energy neutrino oscillations ever detected.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:53 | null | null | The disappearance of thousands of tons of stuff — from earplugs to engines — is a part of a deliberate plan to remove excess and obsolete material off Antarctica. And this is the final season of the five-year retrograde project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Think spring-cleaning on a town-wide scale. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1365.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/emily.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Emily Wampler, a materialsperson apprentice for the retrograde project, adjusts the forklifts on a vehicle referred to as a pickle. The five-year retrograde project has removed more than 5.5 million pounds of obsolete or unwanted materials from Antarctica. Many items end up at auction.
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"Steve Martaindale"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:57 | null | null | The South Pole Telescope will target uncharted, far-flung galaxy clusters. Once these clusters are located, they can be studied for additional clues to the size, age and origins of the universe. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1230.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/SPT dish lift.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jerry Marty A pair of cranes are used to lift the 10-meter dish into place during construction in the summer of 2006-07.
Bigger is better
Science goals guide construction of South Pole Telescope and its 10-meter dish
When cosmologists — astronomers who study the origin and structure of the entire universe... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1230 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a1263f279588a945239f969d6e075c850ca911858e56667c76f3779245e0732d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:03 | null | null | It took Colin Bull 50 years before he published an account of his first Antarctic expedition, a groundbreaking study of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Why did it take him five decades to write the story? He was too busy devoting his life to a career of polar studies. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2002.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: Colin Bull Colin Bull, Dick Barwick, Peter Webb and Barrie McKelvey, from left, pose for a picture during their 1958-59 expedition to the McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was the first science expedition sponsored by a university. Bull recently wrote a book about the adventure.
Groundbreaking study New book deta... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2002 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ecdfbc2bb5e4b83da6a6b6af19f9e782de54ad18d6e80705381847a3831fa381.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:18 | null | null | When an international team of scientists lands at McMurdo Station in early August 2010, it will be dark and cold as only an Antarctic winter can be. And that’s a good thing if you’re interested in learning about what’s happening in the atmosphere above the continent at one of the harshest times of the year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2196.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: Philippe Cocquerez/CNES A super-pressure balloon developed by the French space agency CNES floats above the Royal Society Range in 2005 for a project called VORCORE that studied the dynamics of the polar vortex. Similar balloons will be launched this year for a new project called Concordiasi.
Flying high ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2196 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c967ba6d1d52cf041031249eb2d84b3d950760754b8205deb74fad9086ad13e4.json |
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"Peter Rejcek",
"Photos Andy Martinez",
"Terry Eddington"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:27 | null | null | Today's South Pole is only the latest incarnation in a steady stream of historical watersheds. Countless reminders of past glories sit in glass displays and hang from the walls of those spotless hallways, witness to 50 years of habitation and human drama. Photos, paintings, plaques and pole markers make up the bulk of ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1208.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/WO Photos (thumb).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Winter Site Manager Andy Martinez worked all South Pole winter long in his spare time to refurbish many of the broken frames that held pieces of polar history, and also built many new frames out of used wood from the old station.
Preserving Pole's past Station memorabilia gets new home in elevated station
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:12 | null | null | Just what does a humpback whale in the Southern Ocean do all day? Well, eat, that’s for certain. A lot. But how much? It’s a question that a team of scientists will address with some high-tech tagging instruments – and steady hands and sharp eyes. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1727.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: Mason Weinrich/Whale Center of New England Ari Friedlaender attaches a suction-cup tag to a humpback whale off the coast of New England. Whale researchers interested in the humpback's feeding behavior in the Southern Ocean will use a similar technique to track and study the animal.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:05 | null | null | Byrd Polar Research Center was established shortly after the International Geophysical Year in 1960 as the Institute of Polar Studies at The Ohio State University. Its missions and focus have evolved over the years, but its commitment to broadening our knowledge of the polar regions has remained constant. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1434.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/bprc_series.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
Byrd Polar Research Center A special report about one of the nation's premiere polar and alpine science institutions
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:29 | null | null | Findings by an international team of scientists using a telescope located at the U.S. Antarctic Program’s South Pole Station show that cosmologists probably do know what they believe they know about the universe. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1943.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: Church Group Web site An aerial view of the QUaD telescope in the reflective ground shield at South Pole. The shield prevents interference from the ground. The experiment ran from 2005-2007, and scientists recently published results that confirm the standard model of the cosmos.
Standard knowledge South... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1943 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1939b847eea7cd0cb61d4b1378b43f0a586cb70fa8ad6f154867c4a9d64baf3b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:42 | null | null | The balloon-borne Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory carries the world's most complicated high-frequency radios, but it doesn't tune into your favorite rock station. Instead, it will pick up the faint, high-frequency radio signals emitted by carbon atoms within violent interstellar clouds of gas and dust that are foun... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2586.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/sto_launch.jpg | en | null | Dust in the wind | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Christopher Walker The Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory is prepared for launch from the Long Duration Balloon facility on the McMurdo Ice Shelf in January 2012. The telescope carried high-tech "radios" to tune into the violent dust clouds from where stars are born in galaxies.
Dust in the wind Balloon-... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2586 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f935d255954570078853e9d8a4f719b8e7b10fad2486d260484a9df49ba1fdc0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:47:48 | null | null | The current aesthetics of McMurdo station and its field camps are not likely to go down in history as great achievements of modern architecture. But for photographer Shaun O’Boyle, this weathered, utilitarian look was a part of what attracted him to Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4219.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/oboyle-cosray.jpg | en | null | The Aesthetics of Antarctic Architecture | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mike Lucibella Inside the historic hut at Cape Royds, Shaun O’Boyle lines up his camera to capture the scene.
The Aesthetics of Antarctic Architecture
A photographer captures the utilitarian charm of McMurdo Station
The current aesthetics of McMurdo station and its field camps are not likely to go down in... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4219 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1e40e50cf7e85902334f35d9fa52f887690c9ae2e2e3b6aaca8df4a382cb573a.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:07 | null | null | A new study in the journal Science challenges the long-held idea that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea level by as much as five or six meters if it were to collapse. Instead, the authors contend the ice would increase sea level by about half of previous estimates. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1782.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/button-top.gif | en | null | Sea level rise revised | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Zee Evans/Antarctic Photo Library A Zodiac inflatable boat passes close to an iceberg near the Antarctic Peninsula in West Antarctica. A new study says total ice loss from West Antarctica will be less than previously calculated, meaning sea level would rise by about half of earlier projections.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:21:38 | null | null | Ann Curry and the Today Show crew reporting live out of McMurdo Station make one last effort to reach the South Pole. Weather has grounded all airplanes to the Pole since Oct. 31. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1271.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Live broadcast Nightly News noon Nov 6 2007 (3).JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Myrna Gary Today Show anchor Ann Curry reports live from the deck of the Chalet administrative center at McMurdo Station.
Weather delays Pole flights
Last effort to reach 90 degrees south for report on climate change pays off for Today Show crew
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:30 | null | null | A new study in the Journal of Climate suggests widespread warming across the Antarctic Peninsula during the fall is being influenced by atmospheric circulation patterns originating in the tropics. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2848.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Temperatures rise in the fall | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Janice O'Reilly The Antarctic Peninsula where new research suggests that tropical influences are causing widespread warming during the autumn months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
Temperatures rise in the fall
Study suggests tropics to blame for warming during autumn months
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:58 | null | null | New information about increased melt rates for a key glacier in West Antarctica has added to the sense of urgency for a team headed to the Pine Island region later this year to make oceanographic measurements below an ice shelf. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2461.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: Frank Nitsche, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Stronger ocean currents are thinning Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf in West Antarctica. A research cruise to the Amundsen Sea in 2009 found the ice is melting 50 percent faster than it was 15 years ago. An overland expedition to the ice shelf in 2011-12 hopes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2461 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4f278947fbc8d7b26a9a6244bbe737023a8f9ccd122a8b7f33012a4e522e37ea.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:01 | null | null | There are few places left in the world where the big predators still naturally dominate their ecosystem. Except perhaps one:
The Ross Sea is still relatively pristine. Its intact marine food web offers ecologists an opportunity to challenge scientific orthodoxy about ecosystem structure. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2849.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/royds-penguins-ice-floes-line.jpg | en | null | Predator and Prey (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Predator and prey
Researchers hunt for answers to dynamics of Ross Sea ecosystem
There are few places left in the world where the big predators — think lions, tigers and bears (oh my) — still naturally dominate their ecosystem. That’s even true of the world’s oceans — except one.
The Ross Sea , which has been dubbed th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2849 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/75ba5b5f2315e5cbc0b363d16c3efb2964b92bf1e21fd166dcbe45ea0a0c17c9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:37 | null | null | In the end, it took a little bit of magic and quite a lot of effort, but U.S. scientists announced this week that they successfully reached a lake buried nearly a kilometer below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. a custom-made, high-powered hotwater drill reached subglacial Lake Whillans on Jan 28. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2804.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/wissard-dennis.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: WISSARD A camera captures an image of the borehole into subglacial Lake Whillans. Scientists are send various instruments down the hole to take water and sediment samples, as well as make measurements of the lake chemistry and physical properties.
Water world
U.S. researchers breach Antarctic subglacial l... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2804 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4d62b73ace7d903cd6d7865ccf3791aaf0e3d58c5fe8f05f1d7b2df5d5a2b957.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:47 | null | null | Some came looking for answers and allies in future endeavors. Others to share their successes and failures. And most everyone in attendance at the sixth annual Polar Technology Conference learned just what science could be accomplished in the polar regions with a little ingenuity, even in some of the worst conditions i... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2077.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/tech_conf.jpg | en | null | Polar Technology Conference | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Lee Thomas/Antarctic Photo Library An aerial view of Byrd Surface Camp in West Antarctica, which used a newly developed portable Iridium Multi-channel System for various communication needs, including instant messaging. The Polar Technology Conference focused on Iridium communication.
Polar Technology Con... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2077 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a3b0f99f7e5a7774f5b6f7c7c2b9534278aedb3203587e1a76e0027e1b661935.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:05 | null | null | Scientists aboard a Swedish icebreaker are on a two-month expedition to study a large swath of the sea ice system in the Southern Ocean. The U.S. and Swedish researchers will work on problems that range from sea ice thickness to the gases released to the atmosphere by microbial organisms living in and around the ice pa... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2313.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/arrigo_icecoreteam.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Anna-Carlijn Alderkamp Scientists return to the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer after collecting an ice core from the sea ice. The ice cores will provide information about the physical structure of the sea ice and the microbial organisms within. Sea ice is a key ecosystem that nearly doubles the size ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2313 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/705bc762dfddd1a9c9f0ee7ff53a468d2d7fc1d9be3148bd5f9c144faa8a8b57.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:53 | null | null | The size of the annual ozone hole over Antarctica peaked in late September at 23.8 million square miles, slightly smaller than the North American continent, according to a news release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in November. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1969.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/ozonegraph09.jpg | en | null | Ozone hole 2009 | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Scientists with the University of Wyoming launch a balloon near McMurdo Station that carries instruments to measure ozone in the atmosphere. The 2009 ozone hole over Antarctica was the 10th largest on record.
Ozone hole 2009 Latest depletion event 10th largest in last ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1969 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1493bc577a4bfd80c526d3a3490749918ae2c42d3e2e26ef6e6c325564e422d8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:52 | null | null | The first U.S. Antarctic Program flight to Antarctica landed safely at Pegasus airfield near McMurdo Station on Aug. 15, 2010, ushering in the 2010 Winfly season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2232.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/first_flight_aug2010.jpg | en | null | In the dark | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andre Fleuette
In the dark First USAP flight since March lands in Antarctica during winter night
The first U.S. Antarctic Program flight to Antarctica landed safely at Pegasus airfield near McMurdo Station on Aug. 15, 2010, ushering in the 2010 Winfly season. Winfly is the time between winter and the summ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2232 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f2e989bb815c5dcc66252cb97ad1347fbf3c046c32e6a6123ae3cb711f43cf6c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:38 | null | null | Antarctica is a huge continent, but it’s a small world when it comes to those who have lived and worked there. Yet Christina Hammock and Jessica Meir never met while working at different stations. Now they’ll get a chance after being chosen to join NASA's newest astronaut class. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2869.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/meir-emperor-2008.jpg | en | null | Launching New Careers (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Jessica Meir Jessica Meir works with an emperor penguin at a site known as Penguin Ranch near McMurdo Station during the austral summer of 2008. She and Christina Hammock, who also participated in the U.S. Antarctic Program, were both chosen to join NASA's astronaut corps last month.
Launching new caree... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2869 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6dce9f40f4bdbc4606f2f3be4f892e973dc46151b44727cccfd366952114dbd3.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:17 | null | null | Visiting the underwater world of corals in the Southern Ocean isn’t exactly like a tropical vacation. But the inhospitable waters didn't deter a team of scientists from traversing the Drake Passage to collect samples of live and fossil cold-water corals. The research will tell them something about the life history of t... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2477.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/corals_dredge.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Laura Robinson Scientists and technicians aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould dry, sort and pack the multitude of coral fossils collected from deep-sea dredges along Cape Horn. The corals' hard skeletons contain chemical signatures that “record” some of the ocean properties at the time of their g... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2477 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ad7bfa6fc731beb322eb3d1b04cb3408eba5d2a02c403595cc21d9cfde575453.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:21:12 | null | null | The Clothing Distribution Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, may just contain more extreme cold weather gear than any outdoor shop on the planet, outfitting about 2,000 people each year as they head south to Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1309.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/CDC red jackets.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
Looking good in the Antarctic
Clothing Distribution Center in Christchurch, New Zealand, outfits USAP participants for the trip south
The Clothing Distribution Center (CDC) in Christchurch, New Zealand, has more than 140,000 pieces of extreme cold weather (ECW) gear for issue to U.S. Antarcti... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1309 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0c830b57d5490dbc3ee814ba593d405b20e4169ddab4032aca5de58884f3c522.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:00 | null | null | An experiment to make some of the first sustained measurements of atmospheric and oceanic conditions surrounding a polynya in Antarctica yielded not only some interesting results but also set a flight record for unmanned aircraft. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2010.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/cassano_takeoff.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Cassano An unmanned aerial vehicle launches from the back of a pickup truck, which drives down a groomed runway near McMurdo Station. The robot made 16 total flights during the early part of the 2009-10 summer field season in Antarctica.
Record flight Unmanned aerial vehicle makes unprecedented measu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2010 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c9b2ea6722c001920a74745c2965e220f9756c33acb5a541d68f55be506347d8.json |
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"Anil Ananthaswamy"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:45 | null | null | Anil Ananthaswamy talks about how cosmology today is in crisis. He asks, "Can the next generation of experiments in cosmology and particle physics help anchor the theories to reality?" Experiments at the South Pole may be key to answering that challenge. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1610.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: Keith Vanderlinde The South Pole Telescope, left, and BICEP experiments collect data about the origins of the universe from the South Pole during the winter. Writer Anil Ananthaswamy visited South Pole last year for a book he is writing about the next generation of cosmological experiments.
Cosmological... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1610 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c6a3fa8f6dc57a32d1489b19086c366505f69147d734759ef6c24950953687b3.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:04 | null | null | Talk about a tough place to live, even by Antarctic standards. No oxygen. Water content that is seven times saltier than seawater. Not to mention absolutely frigid and slightly acidic. But somehow a community of bacteria ekes out a living in Antarctica's ice-covered Lake Vida. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2778.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/vida-uv-borehold-Kuhn.jpg.jpg | en | null | No small discovery | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alison Murray Desert Research Institute scientist Christian H. Fritsen examines ice core segments recovered by drilling into Lake Vida for particulate matter frozen into the ice using a pulse-amplitude modulation PAM fluorometer to see if it contained bioactive photosystems containing chlorophyll.
No smal... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2778 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c690f3ebad1af021e23eb1ddb7a16a31b974576c18845c5c7986a85626ffe467.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:14:49 | null | null | Dana Hrubes estimates he has walked more than 5,000 miles across Antarctica. He is not a polar explorer, though he has certainly had his share of adventures in the polar regions. Instead, Hrubes has literally walked the distance mile by mile, day after day, during seven winters at the South Pole. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2898.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/South_Pole_Telescope---d-hrubes.jpg | en | null | Going the distance | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Dana Hrubes Scientist Dana Hrubes stands next to the South Pole Telescope under a full moon, showing the size of the experiment, back in 2008. Now on his seventh winter, Hrubes has literally walked thousands of miles in support of astrophysical research at the South Pole.
Going the distance
One South Po... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2898 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/05dde55a754e11e4ef2850b6ae508406dc11e6a6792949135e5b71bab1ba0560.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:11 | null | null | By studying the tissue remains of penguins in Antarctica, scientists are not only learning more about the modern diet of the continent’s iconic seabird but also what was on the menu thousands of years ago. And that information can provide insight into past climate and how penguins could respond to future changes. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1938.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/emslie_adare.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Emslie Cape Adare is home to the largest Adélie penguin colony in Antarctica. Until about 200 years ago, when humans decimated whale and seal populations, the penguins subsisted mainly on fish. But the ensuing surplus of krill created by the dearth of top predators caused a shift in diet.
Changing d... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1938 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2993d89c2dafbb94160ba5a8f6827725b8e81f80e00143931d44ce457128f673.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:35 | null | null | Antarctica conjures many different images depending on the imagination. Ice. Cold. Penguins. For Sarah Aciego, it’s dust that landed on the ice sheet thousands of years ago. These microscopic grains are important for understanding planet dynamics. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3017.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/taylor-glacier-aciego-helo.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Sarah Aciego A special drill is used to extract ice cores from Taylor Glacier for a study using microscopic grains of dust to understand past atmospheric and climate conditions on Earth.
Blown past
Dust found in Antarctic ice cores offers clues to ancient climate
Antarctica conjures many different image... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3017 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a58ae41f488e92d157d796abc9167936e374bdddc34cd4d3f6ffceb9dc342df9.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:11:04 | null | null | A photo of McMurdo Station, circa December 1955, before there were any buildings, recently surfaced. The photo was taken by Freddie Spainhouer, a Navy photographer who was among the first to winter over at McMurdo in 1956. He is now 90 and living in Dallas, Texas. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2971.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/mcmurdo-op-deep-freeze.jpg | en | null | Memory of McMurdo | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Freddie Spainhouer McMurdo Station, circa December 1955, before it became the largest research base in the U.S. Antarctic Program. The photo was taken by Freddie Spainhouer, now 90 and living in Dallas. His son, Steven, recently donated the image to the USAP's Photo Library.
Memory of McMurdo
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:38 | null | null | One of the busiest field seasons in recent memory for the U.S. Antarctic Program ended at McMurdo Station on March 5. That’s the day the last plane, an Australian Airbus A319, departed with 33 passengers, leaving about 150 people to winter-over at the USAP’s largest research station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2378.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | End of season | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
End of season Last plane of 2010-11 summer field season leaves McMurdo
One of the busiest field seasons in recent memory for the U.S. Antarctic Program ended at McMurdo Station on March 5.
Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A New York Air National Guard LC-130 flies over the South Pole Station. Photo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2378 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c6a114ee08d92055f7214c7a37dcb9dd39fd3ffbbd3cb7c8c85c4e2b798c9a16.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:19:16 | null | null | Colin Bull, professor emeritus at The Ohio State University and pioneering polar scientist, passed away on Sept. 7, 2010. He was the leader of the 1958-59 Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition to the McMurdo Dry Valleys during the International Geophysical Year, the beginning of a lifelong association ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2275.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | RIP Colin Bull | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kristan Hutchison Colin Bull reads a book from his vast collection of Antarctic works at his home outside of Seattle circa 2003. He passed away on Sept. 7, 2010, while on a cruise to the Arctic with his wife Gillian.
RIP Colin Bull IGY scientist left indelible mark on polar sciences
Colin Bull, professor ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2275 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6ab75a1914d6f53ee8d94b8562aeda54bf353b776d4ef56982df990ab0cde864.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:25 | null | null | New research published in the prestigious journal Nature suggests that the last ice age in West Antarctica ended several thousand years earlier than previously thought. The study is based on analysis of an ice core extracted from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by U.S. researchers. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2886.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | An early defrost | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mark Twickler An ice core sticks out of the metal core barrel during drilling operations at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide field camp. Analysis of the ice core suggests that the last ice age ended at least two thousand years earlier than previously thought.
An early defrost
Nature paper suggests last... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2886 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d899393da54aff84479171520b2a9151c4f45770752ddc5f3fff4a68e5ce3661.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:51 | null | null | The South Pole has become the place to be for scientists searching for high-energy neutrinos or to understand the nature of the dark energy that is pushing the universe apart — some of the grandest mysteries about the universe. But the Pole may offer an ideal vantage point for a different study of the cosmos. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1864.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: Michael Ashley and Daniel Luong-Van/University of New South Wales Sky images taken by a Gattini camera at Dome A on the Antarctic polar plateau. Anna Moore and colleagues will install a similar camera at the South Pole this season to determine if it would be an ideal spot to locate a telescope capable of ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1864 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/74a954d6f00e0ca1f0424c7e0010b5bc495bc998156a9bed88e24d594f30e386.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:09 | null | null | It’s summer time in Punta Arenas, Chile, which means overcast skies and blustery winds. It’s also one of the busiest times of the year for the U.S. Antarctic Program’s marine operations. Both vessels are set to head off on major science expeditions to begin 2010. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2004.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/nbp_twohelos.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Two Bell helicopters operated by PHI, Inc., are secured in a hangar aboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer. This is only the second time in the ship's history that helicopters have operated from the vessel, which launched in 1992.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:34 | null | null | Scientists have been working continuously now for more than 15 years on a long-term study to learn how Adélie penguin societies survive and thrive – or not – against both natural forces and human disturbances. It turns out at least part of that outcome may hinge on the fitness of a smaller subset of the species. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2995.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Power of One (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Researcher Arvind Varsani begins the trek back to the field camp at Cape Crozier, home to one of the world's largest Adélie penguin colonies. Scientists are beginning to look at the individual differences that make some penguins more successful breeders than others.
Power of one
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:40 | null | null | Martin Robinson is not unlike many support personnel who work for the U.S. Antarctic Program. He has an office job in McMurdo at the station's IT Help Desk. He loves the lifestyle, and has returned to the Ice every year since 2005-06, taking advantage of the long off-season to travel. But there's one difference: He hea... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2376.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/martin_titlebelt.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Martin Robinson works the computer help desk at McMurdo Station. Every year at the end of the summer field season in February, Robinson heads to Thailand, where he trains and fights as a nak muay farang, a foreign boxer, in the national sport of Muy Thai.
'Ultimate test' Robinson trades compu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2376 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1d169cf19946c313242277d1f673a018bccaa294a7391e259761fa7383cec442.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:28 | null | null | The spectacular disintegration of a large chunk of the Wilkins Ice Shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula in March may be part of an accelerating pattern of climate change in the region. The collapse could prove to be a boon to scientists studying climate change in the region. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1408.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/wilkins_figure1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jim Elliot/British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey captured live images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf beginning to collapse. The ice shelf is "hanging by a thread" and most scientists believe it is only a matter of time before it disintegrates.
Breaking up Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegration becomes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1408 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ff66104837d7e5d383228a0efa3dc44e12d1c2ef5b3787c19cc21e148abe7cee.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:31 | null | null | The opportunity to recover his collection of chamber music that he left in Antarctica in the 1950s never never presented itself, despite 15 trips to the Ice over six different decades, a total of 18 field seasons. Now, at age 78, Charles Bentley is back in Antarctica, the principal investigator with Ice Core Drilling S... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1370.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Bentley_wais.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Charles Bentley Charles Bentley, far left, and the rest of the Byrd Station traverse team pose in front of a Tucker Sno-Cat in February 1958 after a season of discoveries around West Antarctica. Bentley served as the expedition's seismologist during the 25 months he spent on the Ice during the Internati... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1370 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6b8b49690800de1797311dd52f8b7e7df3e54573f5dbac6e0ad68ff9f2a3c158.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:24 | null | null | Anyone who works in Antarctica knows you never bring just one of anything, whether it’s a battery or a scientific instrument. Success on the Ice is all about redundancy. That’s the mantra of engineers and construction workers who completed a major seven-year project this past austral summer at McMurdo Station to upgrad... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2418.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/powerplant_exterior.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Nathan Hoople, left, and Tim Briggs look over the new Caterpillar engines in the McMurdo power plant. A major project to provide power- and water-generating capabilities at both the water and power plants came to a close during the 2010-11 season.
Full power McMurdo plant upgrade project come... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2418 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/893dcf5f04eea6468834e6ef6a6e5b9409461909c70c7cf7545b596d09a4e937.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:09 | null | null | As the tropics go, so goes West Antarctica. That’s the conclusion from scientists who analyzed ice cores recovered by the U.S. component of the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) program, funded by the National Science Foundation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1560.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/itase_2002.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dan Dixon/Antarctic Photo Library The ITASE team in the field in December 2002 during which it collected ice cores for climate research. Some of those cores were used in a recent paper that links El Niño with climate in West Antarctica.
Tropical connection ITASE data used to link El Niño and West Antarcti... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1560 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bc13300aa7e3e5c078da33fb9ac1a1f8c2980da523eb4662f440b7616fef22fb.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:18 | null | null | The National Science Foundationhas announced it will begin a five-year project to renovate housing at McMurdo Station as part of a larger improvement project intended to address the long-term needs of the U.S. Antarctic Program’s largest research facility. This year will also involve major changes to the housing policy... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2740.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/MCM_NORTH_2_17_11.jpg | en | null | Home sweet home | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Dorm buildings at McMurdo Station. The National Science Foundation has announced that it will begin a five-year project to renovate the housing at McMurdo Station as part of a larger project to improve quality of life for residents and energy efficiency and maintenance... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2740 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/09a429aa7f41207f7080046bc46dd636ec456df10d845202d6f4b8db14880d14.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:10:34 | null | null | Those seeking immortality in Antarctica will find the bar has been raised – at least when it comes to being honored by having a geographic feature named after them. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names changed the rules regarding how geographic features in Antarctica should be named. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4046.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/Cook_in_Antarctica.jpg | en | null | A New Standard (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Elaine Hood/Antarctic Photo Library The Ferrar Glacier, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, was named for Hartley Ferrar, geologist on Capt. Robert Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904). The United States recently changed the rules on applying personal names to geographic features in Antarctic... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4046 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d917a634daff2f28f301d2ef916f4433a32f9669811488657563c58e66b6b1b0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:42 | null | null | Penguin guano stains, visible from space, have helped British scientists locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica. For the survey, the researchers used satellite images downloaded from the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA), a project partly funded by the National Science Foundation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1790.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The poop on penguins | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: British Antarctic Survey An emperor colony located near Britain's Halley Research Station. Using a satellite mosaic map created during the International Polar Year that was partly funded by the National Science Foundation, British scientists identified 10 new colonies.
The poop on penguins BAS scientists ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1790 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ab7cefe1c43b63a1e732836b9f2e360b98fee64086bc68f5cb3aa119f35c2073.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:17 | null | null | It’s the classic story of trying to build a better mousetrap. In this case, the invention has nothing to do with catching rodents but capturing data on the thousands of items of cargo shipped by the U.S. Antarctic Program to the ice-covered continent each year. Engineering students from the Colorado School of Mines in ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2449.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 Connor Coltharp, an electrical engineering student at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, scans a barcode with a device that he and fellow students designed to withstand the cold temperatures in Antarctica. The test took place at the National Ice Core Laboratory.
Cold cargo Colorado engin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2449 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b17f31b708f103991b0f1d52e03ca9d5af8d8127c8a40ea6998fa17f8fdaa674.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:13 | null | null | Government, business and academic leaders spent the first week of December visiting the research facilities and field camps of the U.S. Antarctic Program as part of a process to develop a long-term vision for research in a world where the polar regions play an increasingly important role for understanding climate chang... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2562.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/brp_facility141.jpg | en | null | Blue Ribbon Panel | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Members of the Blue Ribbon Panel, led by Norman Augustine, top of stairs, enter an automotive warehouse at McMurdo Station. The group of government, business and academic leaders visited USAP facilities as part of a process to develop a long-term vision to support research in the future.
Blue... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2562 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/774d80f20be483ab49de0e45e7cca923a6f9ab5664bb28b8670ebecacece1427.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:41 | null | null | Party balloons greeted Rob Robbins as he climbed out of the icy waters of McMurdo Sound on October 22. The colorful additions to the typically utilitarian furnishings of the small dive hut marked a major milestone in his career. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4191.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/Robbins-Intercom.jpg | en | null | 2,000 Dives Under the Antarctic Sea | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Norbert Wu Diver Rob Robbins swims under the sea ice in McMurdo Sound near Arrival Heights in a previous season.
2,000 Dives Under the Antarctic Sea
Party balloons greeted Rob Robbins as he climbed out of the icy waters of McMurdo Sound on October 22. The colorful additions to the typically utilitarian fu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4191 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e3803099e90a5d5ed8ae087b00d8bf21ab20ef149fad7c936f4a10d8dd8e985a.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:09:09 | null | null | Two Americans inspired by tales of heroism in the age of exploration in Antarctica had a hand in ensuring that part of the continent's early history will stand the test of time well into this century. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4130.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/conservators-marine-dredge.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NZAHT Conservator Julie Unruh works with colleague Jane Hamill to reinforce the fragile edge of a marine dredge from Cape Royds during the 2011 winter. Unruh was one of five Americans hired to help over the last 10 years to conserve historic artifacts and structures in Antarctica.
American ingenuity
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:11 | null | null | As Winfly got underway this year, a spate of nasty storms blew through the area, slowing progress and adding to the annual heavy workload. Despite the inclement weather, more than 200 people safely flew into McMurdo Station, including more than two dozen researchers on multiple science teams. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4181.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/sunrise-2015-winfly.jpg | en | null | Despite Storms, Winfly A Success | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Joshua Swanson Support staff unload a C-17 cargo plane at the Pegasus Airfield as the sun rises just over the horizon.
Despite Storms, Winfly A Success
McMurdo Station was abuzz with activity at the end of August.
As “Winfly” got underway this year, a spate of nasty storms blew through the area, slowing p... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4181 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9695e70cdacde5e6dbb0f729c59eb173c65179ae6ab25f075f7169f13547ba20.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:33 | null | null | Twenty years after an arachnid-shaped robot stalled out on its descent into the noxious crater of an Antarctic volcano, an altogether different rover could be found on the slightly safer slopes of Erebus volcano scanning for ice caves. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2818.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Roving Around Erebus (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Engineer Rebecca Williams controls Yeti, a four-wheeled robot that carries a ground-penetrating radar, on the slopes of Erebus volcano. Yeti is scanning over an ice cave created by the heat and gases vented by the volcano through fissures.
Roving around Erebus
Robot scans ice caves on Antarct... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2818 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e157ca39dc396c92b9623846bbb38c038bda988669e4872306b9a41205860576.json |
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"Steve Martaindale"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:45 | null | null | The South Pole Telescope will target uncharted, far-flung galaxy clusters. Once these clusters are located, they can be studied for additional clues to the size, age and origins of the universe. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1236.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/SPT and DSL (top image).jpg | en | null | Eye on the Past | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jerry Marty The South Pole Telescope, left, dominates the station skyline. It is connected to the Dark Sector Lab.
Eye on the Past
South Pole Telescope is the newest tool for figuring out the origins of the universe
John Carlstrom has taken some pleasure from stirring up things around the South Pole this ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1236 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e4b9fd31c4f9cafe119ee2acbae9f058e1147f43c4a96ce7883a8feb2e0fa4a2.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:52 | null | null | It took the EPICA projct more than five field seasons to drill down into 850,000 years of climate history. Andrei Kurbatov and his colleagues believe that they can retrieve a nearly limitless supply of ice for climate research that dates back at least 2.5 million years - located right at the surface and retrievable in ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1919.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: Andrei Kurbatov Leigh Stearns pulls an instrument behind a snowmobile to map the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area in 2004. Andrei Kurbatov and colleagues will return to the area during the 2009-10 field season to determine the feasibility of recovering ice that is 2.5 million years old.
Old ice Climate record fr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1919 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7da391b51a677a70d14977580816cb66588d52ebaeced16f84d75199eff144eb.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:18:24 | null | null | Anil Ananthaswamy began a long trip in October 2005, one that would take him to a Chilean desert to Siberia and South Africa to the bottom of the world in Antarctica and beyond. He was on a quest to understand the universe. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2063.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Edge of Physics | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robyn Waserman/Antarctic Photo Library An experiment called CREAM (Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass) is prepared to launch from a site near McMurdo Station on a long-duration balloon in 2008. Author Anil Ananthaswamy highlights these high-flying experiments and others taking place in Antarctica and around t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2063 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/045399e2f7f91dcae915e4eac959cb78c406cdeb9cf726be3f17a952c383b0c1.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:22:49 | null | null | Tyler Mackey slips through a hole in an ice-covered lake in Antarctica, dropping a dozen meters into the near-freezing water and diving back about 2.5 billion years into the past to study the evolution of life in its earliest form. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4105.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Window to the past | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dale Andersen Cyanobacteria form thick mats in the bottom of Lake Joyce that feature webbed pinnacles called microbialites, partly composed of calcium carbonate, the same mineral that makes up coral reefs. The structures are similar to those built by organisms in Earth's early history.
Window to the past
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:30 | null | null | A chance meeting between a digital cartography whiz and a geologist in need of a three-dimensional way to represent the McMurdo Dry Valleys has spawned a new map-making and archiving service for the U.S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1304.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/glacier map.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Graphic Credit: Paul Morin The newly created Antarctic Geospatial Information Center will become the primary repository and resource for mapmaking in the U.S. Antarctic Program. This map shows a typical product — a glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains.
Looking at new dimensions Recently created mapping center will fi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1304 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7eaaaf9657cb524bca5863e7d3e275663dab7114b55655a91ce9c31e23de3553.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:26:32 | null | null | While a sensitive barometer to present-day climate change, the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica are also proving to be a useful tool to understand climate change during the end of the last ice age. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2626.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Valley of buried ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jim O'Connor/USGS A cliff section of ancient ice capped by layers of sediment in Garwood Valley stands more than 10 meters tall in most places. The ice was deposited in the valley when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet grew thousands of years ago.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:21:23 | null | null | Guy Guthridge spent 35 years of his life with the National Science Foundation working to create the foundation’s unique Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The program has drawn the likes of well-known photographer Norbert Wu and filmmaker Werner Herzog to the Ice in recent years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1285.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Guthridge (top).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Guy Guthridge gives a lecture about the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, Wyo. in October. Guthridge helped create the program, which supports the arts in Antarctica.
A different perspective
NSF program lift... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1285 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5446dceba733d32c493888c3b826fb7a5eb4903dc865de321d936733cc3d737e.json |
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"Aneliya Sakaeva",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:18 | null | null | When people think of Shackleton’s expeditions in Antarctica they probably think of bravery, determination and adventure. Aneliya Sakaeva thinks of algae. She has collected samples from freshwater streams to study modern-day species of diatoms against those found by early explorers a century ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3002.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 Scientist Aneliya Sakaeva collects an algal sample from a stream in Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, for a study comparing diatom species today to those collected more than a century ago by members of Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition of 1907-1909.
Finding algae
Scientist follows in the scien... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3002 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2cd42ca07d9fb50912d5a3d395557c6a9a779354d9a579a7d647adc24f2d3a9e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:24 | null | null | A sudden cold snap in the northern hemisphere about 13,000 years ago, shortly after the end of the last ice age, apparently never touched Antarctica. In fact, much of the southern half of the planet appeared to be warming up while the other side of the equator cooled off for about a thousand years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2262.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/nz_glacier_tools.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mike Kaplan Scientist Alice Doughty from the University of Maine takes notes during fieldwork in New Zealand. The boulder she is sitting on is glacial debris from when a glacier advanced and then retreated, allowing researchers to reconstruct past climate by dating the rock's exposure to cosmic rays.
Sout... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2262 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e132e4d84f333a971481ff0ea818709759ace960deefb42965fade2714b87aa0.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:21 | null | null | The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. It is likely the break-up of the bridge will put the remainder of the ice shelf at risk. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1499.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: European Space Agency This image from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite is one of a series of images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The recent break-up event began on June 28 on the east (right) rather than the on the west (left) side of the shelf like the previous event that occurred in May. By Ju... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1499 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7bbc942f1337937fbd91ee2882fdd98fd2d84dad333ace53c82dafd1fcde8052.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:48 | null | null | Some people pass the long winter months of isolation at McMurdo Station trying to learn a new language. Matthew Nelson has turned a keen interest in polar history into a project to document and research the explorers who once scribbled their names on the wooden walls of an iconic structure that dates back more than cen... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2686.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/Matt-by-Angela-Garner.jpg | en | null | The Writing on the Wall (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dundee Heritage Trust A 1904 photo shows some of the crewmembers from Capt. Robert F. Scott's Discovery expedition to Antarctica. Some of the men literally left their mark on the continent by signing the wooden walls of their expedition base near McMurdo Station, where satellite engineer Matt Nelson is sp... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2686 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/04c1d137d3af41f67c4921115c14b717551730614e7e557607091f5c710e0e8f.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:43 | null | null | The road to Port Hueneme on California’s southern coast slices through strawberry fields and rural fruit stands, a bucolic drive that ends at quiet beaches and a naval base that is home to the U.S. Antarctic Program’s logistics nerve center. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1321.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/PH crane.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Mike Lewis, Port Hueneme receiving supervisor, logs recently arrived materials on the loading dock of the logistic operation's main warehouse.
Shipping it out
Port Hueneme serves as the logistical nerve center for moving materials to and from Antarctica
The road to Port Hueneme on California’... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1321 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/51c352bf4bde78b8403aa43e150e45ae4b59eefba340a8a32face941fdcd4177.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:13 | null | null | The McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica have proven to be an ideal natural laboratory for scientists to study ecological connections thanks to its relative simplicity. Environmental historian Adrian Howkins similarly believes that the region’s relatively short and simple history makes it an excellent place to examine que... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2666.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: Adrian Howkins Adrian Howkins pauses during a trek through the McMurdo Dry Valleys during the 2011-12 field season. An environmental historian at Colorado State University, Howkins recently joined the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program.
Historical context McMurdo LTER adds social ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2666 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/32a769111fab75cc2e97fbd04b5a12f0ebefded575a85c368df51db594d9eb56.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:15 | null | null | It’s certainly not a flood of biblical proportions, but rising lake levels and pulses of flooding events in the McMurdo Dry Valleys are threatening established field camps and could eventually change the nature of the cold desert ecosystem. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2605.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/Lk-Hoare-Rising-1_2_12.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Woody Haywood/McMurdo science construction crew Carpenters build a new lab building, bottom right corner, at the Lake Bonney field camp so that it will be far enough away from flooding due to the rising lake level. Scientists who study the McMurdo Dry Valleys ecosystem say warmer temperatures are causin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2605 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7a1745f93637f70eab2f0a9e788156944e01898b8d801169ab27e3089727d9ec.json |
[
"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:26 | null | null | Researchers recently reported a connection between local weather conditions and the weight of Adélie penguin chicks in an article in Marine Ecology Progress Series, a top marine ecology journal. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4091.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/HUMBLEVIEW.JPG | en | null | A weighty problem | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Two Adelie penguin chicks in a nest. Researchers recently reported a connection between local weather conditions and the weight of Adélie penguin chicks in a new paper.
A weighty problem
Scientists find link between weather conditions and mass of Adélie penguin chicks
... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4091 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1aa51f4889e8a4be77dd47c74a1839ce3427591feccf27359b6b45473f7cffa2.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:30 | null | null | Penguins from outer space. Sounds like the title of some new B-movie science fiction film starring Vin Diesel. But polar researchers are increasingly using high-resolution imagery shot from orbiting satellites to find, count and assess the population health of penguin and seal colonies around the Antarctic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2595.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/satellite_lynch.jpg | en | null | Eyes in the Sky (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: ©DigitalGlobe Inc.; Image provided by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Commercial Imagery Program A satellite image shows chinstrap penguin colonies at Baily Head, Deception Island, in 2003. The white patches are the colonies. Researchers are using high-resolution imagery shot from satellites to fi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2595 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4943d2ec72c4ab581ade4d9a71b8f681b2c22ccfac48e1df92efe793f578986b.json |
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