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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:31 | null | null | The small field camps that speck the islands of the Antarctic Peninsula are far from the main artery of USAP logistics, across the other side of the continent. But the peninsula is arguably where the planet is heating up and changing the fastest. A handful of scientists and support personnel make sure these important p... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1617.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/copa_beach.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Wayne Trivelpiece Penguins flock on the beach near the Copacabana field camp, seen in the distance, on King George Island. The remote field operations around the Antarctic Peninsula require special logistics and cooperation between federal agencies.
Remote operations Fieldwork along the Antarctic Peninsul... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1617 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d27977e64d5da60c4c72a645ec6215463358dcd3b7f0ebca85ae5b71557075db.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:33 | null | null | A large crack has been spotted in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, threatening to break loose in what scientists believe is part of the natural cycle of calving in a region of Antarctica undergoing profound changes. The ice shelf could calve around the time an expedition expects to be in the area c... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2536.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/pig_plane_engine.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Studinger/NASA A crack transects the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf in West Antarctica. The rift was seen and photographed on Oct. 14 by scientists aboard NASA’s DC-8 as part of Operation IceBridge. Scientists expect an area of about 800 square kilometers may break off in next weeks or months.
Crac... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2536 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d0e1b49b58bfcc38c4e47c615e14f94333724aa8450ee10c107dfb97c48100e0.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:21 | null | null | Thanks to advances in technology and capability, McMurdo Station can be reached safely at any time of the year in the case of an emergency. Now the National Science Foundation plans to parlay that ability into regularly scheduled flights during the winter. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4086.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/pilot-nvg.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Chris Vadnais A U.S. Air Force C-17 pilot uses night-vision goggles to land at Pegasus Airfield near McMurdo Station in 2008. The capability, along with the use of new runway lights, has encouraged the National Science Foundation to test regularly scheduled winter flights ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4086 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8b79dc29f5f12691f6270408a7830183357000e5c49a218921a02e713d14edc5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:54 | null | null | The sun set at the South Pole Station on March 23 at 2:31 a.m. for the next six months. It will return on Sept. 21, 2013. The 44 winter-overs will conduct science and maintain the station facilities during the dark winter months when the temperatures can drop below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2827.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/pole-sunset-2013.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bill Bergholm
Good night
Sun sets on 2012-13 summer season at South Pole
Above, a last glimpse of the sun from the South Pole Station before it set on March 23 at 2:31 a.m. for the next six months. It will return on Sept. 21, 2013. Until then, the 44 winter-overs will collect data on astrophysical experim... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2827 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e878ba4fa8db4db2a74d85e225e199f7891c1f06bdfc3cb51116415affdbf875.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:47 | null | null | It's easy to think of Antarctica as an unyielding, unchanging place, forever in a frozen stasis. But the month of January has shown just how quickly things can evolve. Much of the sea ice that fills McMurdo Sound has blown out into the Ross Sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2976.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/ross-island-open-water.jpg | en | null | Water, water everywhere | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek
Water, water everywhere
Ice clears out of large area of McMurdo Sound in January
Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Adélie penguins "porpoise" through the open water of McMurdo Sound. Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek The above panoramic of McMurdo Station shows a small pool of open water forming at Hut Poi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2976 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a5b4850da0bf178f9d6967f2c7f7a5d5eb857f84c410ef233489423291f59acc.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:44 | null | null | A new online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, provides a one-stop site of resources specifically designed for teachers of grades K-5. The NSF-funded site provides resources for understanding and teaching about the polar regions. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1411.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/polarmag.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Beyond Polar Bears and Penguins Web site A Web screen shot of the second issue of "Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears," a new online magazine that presents educational material on polar issues that elementary school teachers can use in the classroom. The magazine, which started in March, will produce 20 issu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1411 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/43a1dfd2def4c68682ad3b4efba3e0ff81f227a03aae36d6f1a53d5a6dbcb28b.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:26 | null | null | Mother Nature has not been kind to McMurdo Station this summer. Melt pools at the airfield. A disintegrating ice pier. Small icebergs calving from the ice shelf. Antarctica has proven once again why it’s often referred as the world’s harshest continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2979.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Video Information In the animation above, images from NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites are stitched together from mid-September 2013 to mid-February 2014 to show the dramatic break out of sea ice from McMurdo Sound. The lack of sea ice allowed winds and waves to break up the McMurdo Station ice pier and icebergs to cal... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2979 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fef415cadd49d9e13b106c8ae55f4d43cc4cd8a9ed98498ffc5ac181c264b933.json |
[
"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:51 | null | null | If the weather at the bottom of the world seems a little out of whack this year, blame El Nino. Every few years, the ocean around the eastern and central Pacific warms a few degrees, disrupting weather patterns across the ocean from Alaska to Antarctica. Scientists at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4185.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/robothut.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NOAA/NESDIS El Niño is clearly visible in this October 12 satellite image, as a red band of warming water in the Pacific Ocean.
El Niño in Antarctica
If the weather at the bottom of the world seems a little out of whack this year, blame El Niño.
“The main area of impact in all of Antarctica for El Niño is... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4185 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8482f9ebe7ced36793a0f18016a463dab21a9cefbd4fdd5a319bb6c7df94f898.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:31 | null | null | Not all of the research related to the ANDRILL coring project relates to climate change. Scientists at Byrd Polar Research Center are examining small fragments of the core to learn more about Antarctica's tectonic history, which may help understand modern-day earthquakes. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1501.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 Cristina Millan examines fragments of the ANDRILL core under a microscope in Terry Wilson's laboratory at The Ohio State University. The researchers are interested in learning more about the tectonic history of Antarctica, which will tell them something about earthquake processes elsewhere. T... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1501 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4f03092a96d220ca1d8a67384ce92b0b2864ecc7b15297437a3a5c2a20ce30e9.json |
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"Michèle Gentille",
"South Pole Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:41 | null | null | In the past few years, the South Pole Dome has functioned as a warehouse. Soon the iconic structure will be disassembled and shipped north. A gigantic metal arch has been built near the new station for future storage, and over the winter, a small team has been busy preparing it for use this coming summer field season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1867.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | South Pole storage | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nathan Greenland Interior work for the new logistics arch facility at South Pole has been under way all winter long in the unheated building. The old Dome station has served as an ad hoc storage solution, but it will soon go away. Crews will start moving materials into the new facility this summer.
South ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1867 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/932f9e5bf0505f7851f638ae1fb354783f426dc71acf1af11ec694041756dd42.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:15 | null | null | Explorers Cove is the gateway to the Taylor Valley, one of the most intensely studied areas in Antarctica. For scientist Sam Bowser, the ice-covered cove is also a portal back in time to explore a period more than half a billion years ago when the dominance of single-celled organisms suddenly ended with the rapid evolu... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2639.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 Sam Bowser, left, radios a team member at the New Harbor field camp before diver Danielle Woodward plunges through a hole in the sea ice while Hilary Hudson stands by to assist. Woodward is collecting forams, single-celled organisms that Bowser studies to answer questions about evolution.
Evo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2639 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3966184a1c644bda6c98b954b764cbbb40b54693dd462fcd623b1864667cb999.json |
[
"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:53 | null | null | The waters around Antarctica seem to have reversed a troubling trend. Bucking predictions, observations now show that the Southern Ocean is pulling more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than ever recorded, which could have implications for predicting the rate of climate change. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4221.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/southernocean-drakepassage.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ethan Norris Onboard the Antarctic Research Vessel Laurence M. Gould, water samplers measure the carbon dioxide of the ocean as it crosses it.
The Southern Ocean's Carbon Sink Stronger than Ever
The waters around Antarctica seem to have reversed a troubling trend
Bucking predictions, observations now show... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4221 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7625919d5491f9e962b56a586ca7eea40f55fff1020de7156f824c6b0cb37886.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:45 | null | null | Antarctica's raw beauty has been a natural setting for numerous books of fiction and nonfiction over the years. Lucy Jane Bledsoe, a two-time recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artist and Writers Program, has been repeatedly drawn back to the icy continent over the last decade. She re... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2107.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Intersection of art and science | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Lucy Jane Bledsoe Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe on Petermann Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula during the 2003-04 field season. She recently published her fourth book based on her experiences in Antarctica. Her trip was sponsored by the NSF’s Antarctic Artist and Writers Program.
Intersect... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2107 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b247229e8918cb622c38dbd6024c1ad5ea57647dc1aa4ea1d30f451b6035dab0.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:57 | null | null | Every austral summer a mix of different aircraft land at McMurdo Station. A possible addition to that Antarctic ad hoc fleet may some day include a commercial airliner. An Air New Zealand Boeing 767-300 is scheduled to land in Antarctica later this month to test the use of commercial planes on the southern continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2918.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: Montague Smith/Wikipedia An Air New Zealand Boeing 767-300 in the air. A similar aircraft is scheduled to land at McMurdo Station later this month as a proof-of-concept. If successful, passenger movement during the beginning and end of each austral summer between Antarctica and New Zealand may be done by ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2918 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cb99ee60265d5cde93e642075329e66061f57687d0ad242276b7f2ab1895e105.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:15 | null | null | There are more than 200 science projects around the world flying the International Polar Year banner. One group envisions weaving all those stories of scientific discovery into one photographic tapestry. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1604.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 The ANDRILL drill camp on the ice shelf in 2006. ANDRILL is one of 200 International Polar Year projects that Louise Huffman would like to weave into a photographic tapestry to tell the story of polar scientific discovery.
Focus on IPY Proposed photo exhibit would high... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1604 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/51f8cbbcfe5d4f674def65bfe31ff4ff858a22c0863312930604e93ba6f24271.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:13 | null | null | It’s a mission that the U.S. Air Force has trained for during the last five years of supporting research in Antarctica, but it was the first time that a C-17 Globemaster III made an airdrop at the South Pole in winter. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2504.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/STATIONAURORA.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chief Master Sgt. Jim Masura A C-17 Globemaster III loadmaster with the U.S. Air Force's 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron prepares to airdrop supplies near the South Pole Station on Aug. 29 (local time). Both bundles were successfully received by a ground crew, which had set up "burn barrels" for the ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2504 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cbc12d1631a5431066dc6e86501684ff5dd74a0ad599daa6a770916722aa603f.json |
[
"Laura Gerwin",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:05 | null | null | Col. Denise M. Donnell has chased pirates in the South China Sea and flown all manner of aircraft, from the sub-hunting P-3 Orion to the massive, cargo-carrying C-5 Galaxy. But perhaps one of the best parts of her job brings her to Antarctica each austral summer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4148.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/donnell-airplane.jpg | en | null | Making a difference | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Laura Gerwin Col. Denise M. Donnell, left, discusses mission requirements for the New York Air National Guard. She is the first female commander of the Air Expeditionary Group for Support Forces Antarctica.
Making a difference
Donnell first female commander of Air Expeditionary Group for military in Antar... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4148 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/48c0c5f70b0315942f11206297ed992c05c20c1934232fdaec2d780b63872f29.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:25 | null | null | Geologists, paleontologists, glaciologists and dozens of other researchers returned once more to the central Transantarctic Mountains to study a host of scientific mysteries, from the tectonic evolution of the region to the sorts of critters that once lived there millions of years ago. The CTAM field camp supported 18 ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2398.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 The CTAM field camp near the Beardmore Glacier duing the 2010-11 Antarctic field season. The camp supported upwards of 80 people at one time, with 18 science teams passing through over a two-month period.
CTAM 2010-11 Field camp in Transantarctic Mountains supported 18 science projects Click ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2398 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3064d9a9198b7350d0142eeefab689dfdbc63edc34e4acde212ec5cc7ec87ce5.json |
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"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:03 | null | null | The National Science Foundation has awarded a multiyear contract to Lockheed Martin for logistical support for the U.S. Antarctic Program. Lockheed will begin providing logistical support on April 1, 2012. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2564.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: Peter Rejcek A helicopter flies over McMurdo Station, one of three year-round research stations that are part of the U.S. Antarctic Program. The National Science Foundation recently announced that Lockheed Martin would assume the logistical support role for the USAP beginning on April 1, 2012.
Contract aw... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2564 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d9fb7f127f4700ba829a7542b7ca49859fd7cf003f5ee4324e6a5f1fe3591f2b.json |
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"National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:06:22 | null | null | The National Science Foundation's 2016 budget request to Congress calls for $7.7 billion, which represents a 5.2 percent increase over last year. The FY16 budget includes a request for $449.51 million for the Division of Polar Programs. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4127.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/mcm-nsf-snowy-sm.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek The proposed Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization for Science (AIMS) project would reconfigure McMurdo Station to be more efficient, with fewer buildings laid out in order to efficiently move people and supplies.
New priorities
NSF FY16 budget AIMS to kick-start rebuild of McMurdo and Palme... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4127 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8b7d93ec36ec4b453df58baf14e07e94b806db461922e2bf040076c1ce66263d.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:26 | null | null | A team of U.S. and British scientists braved lions and hyenas in East Africa to extract microfossils in samples of rocks, which helped them link declining levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the formation of an ice sheet on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1921.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/tanzania_fossil.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Brian Huber Bridget Wade collects sediments in Tanzania. Wade and colleagues braved lions and hyenas in East Africa to extract microfossils in samples of rocks, which helped them link declining levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere with the formation of the Antarctica ice sheet about 34 million years... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1921 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a38263d7a3d376e1843c9d0393b01df46efdc162d1e4ffe4bfbba1694ab835ea.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:23 | null | null | The ship that lent its name to one of the most famous expeditions to Antarctica has been found off the coast of Greenland. The wood-hulled S.S. Terra Nova, which carried the doomed polar explorer Robert F. Scott to Antarctica in 1910, was discovered last month to a research cruise. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2725.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: Herbert Ponting Photographer Herbert Ponting's iconic image of the SS TERRA NOVA in December 1910 during Capt. Robert F. Scott's expedition that attempted to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. The remains of the ship were recently found off the Greenland coast.
Shipwreck Remains of Scott's v... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2725 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/83fb7781b482e7bb05e46bc22c482f852220feb99001c9e1e362ccd4f9e70eba.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:16 | null | null | Dr. Ed Ehrlich likes to say that he didn’t fall back on excuses when he had the opportunity to go to Antarctica. He certainly had his reasons in 1955. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1962.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ehrlich_modern.jpg | en | null | Profile: Ed Ehrlich | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Dr. Ed Ehrlich pauses on the steps to the Madison capitol building in Wisconsin. Ehrlich served as the medical officer at the IGY Little America V station from 1956-57. Today, he is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:55 | null | null | Researchers at NOAA recently announced that the ozone hole that appears over Antarctica every spring in the Southern Hemisphere may start showing signs of recovery in the next decade. Meanwhile, NASA scientists have reported the Arctic experienced its worst ozone-depletion event ever in 2011. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2529.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/ozone_2010_2011_03_19.jpg | en | null | Recovery and regression | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Freija Deschamps NOAA Corps officer Christy Schultz releases a balloon into the polar night to monitor ozone depletion above the South Pole in Antarctica. NOAA scientists recently announced that the ozone hole that appears over Antarctica every spring in the Southern Hemisphere may start showing signs of ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2529 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e32547862dad706093c35025aad1c6603427f121df1046c907c0266ff5f1d4f3.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:18 | null | null | A robot that may one day explore distant worlds made its first successful foray into an ice-covered lake in Antarctica last year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1780.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/ENDURANCE1.jpg | en | null | Exploring Bonney | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Liz Kauffman/Antarctic Photo Library The ENDURANCE robot made its first exploration of Lake Bonney during the 2008-09 field season in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Scientists will return this year to complete the mapping of the west lobe of the lake.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:23:02 | null | null | Newly published research on the geologic history of the Antarctic Peninsula, specifically an area where a large, floating ice shelf disintegrated in the early 2000s, indicates that the cataclysmic break-up was primarily a result of rising air temperatures and melting at the ice surface. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4075.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: Ted Scambos A helicopter hovers over the back deck of the research vessel NATHANIEL B. PALMER during one of the expeditions for the LARISSA project. Research before and during the IPY project has suggested the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed as a result of rising air temperatures and melting at the ice surfa... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4075 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/026b8d70b0ef4b35284dd0edc055b4886ad39b69287a87032bde0c6e81f93469.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:24:03 | null | null | Scientists head to Antarctica for many reasons. Some are interested in ice cores. Others study the continent’s iconic wildlife. A few use the clear, crisp atmosphere for astrophysics. It’s the clean polar air that has drawn scientists to Palmer Station to understand the natural characteristics of aerosols. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2942.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/PAEROS_sunset.jpg | en | null | Take in the air | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Gregory Roberts Scientist Craig Corrigan works on the instrument package installed at Palmer Station earlier this month to collect data on aerosols and other atmospheric conditions. Marine particles and manmade pollutants in the atmosphere affect clouds, which play a key role in Earth's climate.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:29:21 | null | null | Extreme sea ice conditions and one of the world’s most powerful earthquakes bookended a two-month science expedition to the Antarctica earlier this year, ensuring few dull moments for a multidisciplinary team of scientists. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2132.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/larissa_nbp_heloview.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Eugene Domack The research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer en route to Barilari Bay on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, where it took sediment cores in support of an ice-coring paleoclimate project on the Bruce Plateau.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:38 | null | null | The Larsen C Ice Shelf is the most likely suspect to succumb to the warming climate along the Antarctic Peninsula in the next decade. Scientists are headed to the remote ice shelf this season to install instruments that will monitor the floating block of ice before it disintegrates to learn about how such collapses occ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1545.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/larsenc_nsidc.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Konrad Steffen An automatic weather and GPS station in Greenland. Scientists will install similar instruments on the Larsen C Ice Shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula to monitor conditions there to better understand processes that cause ice shelf collapse.
House call Larsen C project to monitor ice shelf's... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1545 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bd314cd9e6d5fcdac16e4c24d7f1354a423911ee2530fa7fdb585b304341b364.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:01 | null | null | The break-up of the sea ice in McMurdo Sound to an extent not seen in 12 years has welcomed in a plethora of wildlife to the area. There is one unwelcome development to the deterioration of the ice: The snow road from Ross Island to Pegasus airfield on the ice shelf may need to be moved this winter. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2371.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/openwater_terra.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ryan Wallace The sea ice in front of New Zealand's Scott Base breaks apart last week. The station manager reported that open water has not been seen in front of Scott Base since 1998.
Open water Break-up of sea ice in McMurdo Sound welcomes wildlife, nears airfield road
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:01 | null | null | Stephen Warren has made eight previous trips to Antarctica to study its climate. But on his ninth visit to the frozen continent later this year, the University of Washington professor will use Antarctic ice to learn more about the planet’s climate hundreds of millions of years ago during a time of extreme glaciation ca... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1797.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: Stephen Warren Researchers explore the Mount Howe area in the Transantarctic Mountains during a previous field season. The blue ice area is similar to an ice type that likely existed during Snowball Earth events, a time of severe glaciation in the distant past.
Snowball Earth Antarctica natural laboratory... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1797 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/09057ed76de982dc902918785705a2cedd16c61be64d19e1726b260b9c516ccd.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:49 | null | null | Several hundred people travel to the bottom of the world each year to conduct research and support science. Now, millions of people can visit the South Pole and other remote sites in Antarctica thanks to a relationship between Internet giant Google and the Polar Geospatial Center. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2711.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/maps_shakes.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Google A computer screen shot of the 360-degree panorama imagery of explorer Ernest Shackleton's hut in Antarctica now available online thanks to a partnership between the University of Minnesota's Polar Geospatial Center and Google.
Virtual visit PGC works with Google to provide online window to key Anta... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2711 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fc51468e01510b33d090a7c2a351ff595b27d2208b4b36e7a150d61e5d0f3392.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:21:09 | null | null | Most freelance journalists tackle a different topic nearly every week. A lucky few may engage an assignment for several months. Lucia Simion has made Antarctica her own personal beat for the better part of a decade. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1400.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/lucia_domec.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Lucia Simion Lucia Simion in a self-portrait in front of Concordia Station. Simion is an Italian-French photojournalist who has made Antarctica her personal beat for the better part of a decade. She recently published a book about the science and people she has encountered during her adventures.
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"Air Refueling Wing"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:47 | null | null | Flight Safety is serious business in the Air Force, and for one Air Force Reserve organization, it’s so important they’re willing to go to the ends of the Earth. Members of the 507th Air Refueling Wing’s 1st Aviation Standards Flight (ASF) are in Antarctica to conduct airfield inspections. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1569.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: Keith Vanderlinde An FAA Challenger 601 aircraft flies by the geographic South Pole. A team of inspectors from the Air Force Reserve and FAA is down in Antarctica to inspect the USAP's three airfields as part of a routine mission in a very unusual place.
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:54 | null | null | Residents of McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s Scott Base joined together on Veterans Day to honor the service of their nations’ men and women in uniform. Through speeches, prayers and a ceremonial flag raising, service members and station leaders from both countries recognized the bravery of those in the armed forces. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4188.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/colonel-gary-james.jpg | en | null | Two Nations Honor Their Veterans | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Lucibella Jeremiah Clark and Terrell Skafer raise the American and New Zealand flags as Master Sgt. Al Moon plays reveille in a joint Veterans Day ceremony.
Two Nations Honor Their Veterans
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] | 2016-08-26T13:32:42 | null | null | Antarctic icefish would seem to serve as odd specimens for study, a family of fish endemic to the Southern Ocean that probably couldn’t survive anywhere else. But their unique characteristics are helping teach scientists about human diseases. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1540.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/fishing_icefish.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Bill Detrich Scientists aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould prepare fish traps during a science cruise this past winter around the Antarctic Peninsula. The researchers were after icefish, whose unique characteristics could help unravel the mystery behind human diseases such as osteoporosis and anemia.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:17:30 | null | null | One hundred years after the epic race between explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott to reach the South Pole first, adventurers and politicians are expected to visit this once most inaccessible of sites on Antarctica’s polar plateau to commemorate the achievement. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2543.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/pole_explorers.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: BC Alexander/ALE Three tourists ski the last degree to the South Pole, a journey of 60 miles. Hundreds of visitors are expected at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of its namesakes, including the prime minister of Norway.
Centennial celebration South Pole prepa... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2543 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/26bc4c6ee315e3a9a40c7bc97843c6220a9626128ab16c487a161fda041da0e2.json |
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"Elaine Hood",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:19 | null | null | Madey Ridge, located in Antarctica’s Pensacola Mountains near the Ronne Ice Shelf, is named for a teenager who played a critical role in the lives of hundreds of Antarctic pioneers. Today, ask any number of retired Navy Seabees if they remember a Jules Madey and every one of them will happily tell you that Jules was on... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1688.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ham_antenna.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. Navy/Antarctic Photo Library U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Aubrey Garrett uses a ham radio at Williams Air Operating Facility during the 1956 winter. Ham radio was the only means of voice communication with friends and family back in the United States for navy personnel living and working in Antarcti... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1688 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/70a2119edd9d55ec2b571cd1974a97ebb8ad5628b38277d7f85f902617198690.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:02:50 | null | null | The inexorable encroachment of ice in the tunnels below South Pole Station requires a bit of muscle to manage. Meanwhile, the somewhat historic Summer Camp is slowly fading away. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4042.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/pole-utilitdor-loading-sled.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Scott Smith Carpenter Patrick Bailey uses a chainsaw to cut blocks of ice out of a tunnel below the South Pole Station. The ice tunnels contain the station's utilities, and the encroaching ice was creating a hazardous situation.
Tunnel vision
Encroaching ice in utility corridor below South Pole Station sh... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4042 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a31260b3f54755cdc91b20091448e41e42211dfd64a3e9d86dc11c917da6b453.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:51 | null | null | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a special visit to the U.S. and New Zealand Antarctic programs in Christchurch on Nov. 5 during a two-week diplomatic tour through Asia and the Pacific. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2293.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Clinton in New Zealand | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. State Department Web site Chair of Antarctica New Zealand Rob Fenwick, left, shows U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a map of the Antarctic region as NSF Christchurch representative Art Brown looks on during an event on Antarctic cooperation at the International Antarctic Centre on Nov. ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2293 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bbaea366cbadaf766a089b04f3bf3ac0c8838d4f6f3223472e4f1f27ea1c137b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:30:56 | null | null | A U.S.-led international team of scientists has created the first detailed picture of a rugged mountain range buried under more than 4 kilometers of ice in East Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1720.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/agap_plane.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Graphic Credit: National Science Foundation An artist's rendering of the Antarctic Gamburtsev Province project shows the location of the mountain range in East Antarctica, which scientists mapped using instrumented aircraft. The two planes flew the equivalent of two trips around the world. Alps in Antarctica Internatio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1720 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/04d457208e3a0fc4c41500e38b15f23648fa6454d9adc5ea9213d1cd550dccc9.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:01 | null | null | Nancy Farrell figured she would stick around the U.S. Antarctic Program for maybe five years before moving on to something new in her life. She's still goes down to the Ice, even after beating breast cancer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1421.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/NancyF_race.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Nancy Farrell Nancy Farrell participates in the November 2007 Turkey Trot, a 5K run on the sea ice near McMurdo Station. It was Farrell's first trip back to the Ice in two years after successfully beating breast cancer. She devotes much of her free time to charity work and her own education, in what she... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1421 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ccb6f26c48a24f5559a8d64de8200f57561fa532c3e68dd583241e8fa0f435ee.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:31 | null | null | The interface between water and ice on the underside of the McMurdo Ice Shelf is where Antarctica and Europa intersect in terms of how conditions at the former may help future exploration of Jupiter’s icy moon nearly 400 million miles away. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4094.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/simple-roving-drill-people.jpg | en | null | Moon Over McMurdo (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientist Stacy Kim makes final preparations to deploy SCINI down a hole through the McMurdo Ice Shelf. The wires at the end help to keep the remotely operated vehicle from banging into the sides of the 40-meter-long hole as it descends into the water cavity below.
Moon over McMurdo
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"Sean Bonnette",
"Palmer Station Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:12 | null | null | With 10 years of experience working on cruise ships in Antarctica, Palmer winter-site manager Lisa Trotter is no stranger to the Ice, even if it is her first time working for the U. S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2195.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: Lisa Trotter A leopard seal picture by Lisa Trotter, the new Palmer Station winter site manager. Trotter has worked for the last decade in Antarctic tourism. Her love of the Antarctic has led to a project to help educate the public about leopard seals, a sometimes maligned predator.
Diving in Polar vetera... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2195 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b54898cd0fb3788d5735968eb0129ded42dfdfc05773d82fa1ad3e2ef17a98d0.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:56 | null | null | A large but somewhat somber crowd gathered outside of the South Pole Station on Jan. 17, 2012, to pay tribute to Briton Robert Falcon Scott and the four men who had accompanied him to the bottom of the world a century ago in a bid to be the first humans to stand at the point where all directions point north. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2578.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | A somber salute | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ross Harper/BAS Lt. Col. Henry Worsley of the Royal British Legion, a descendant of an early polar explorer, reads from Robert Falcon Scott's diary during a ceremony on Jan. 17, 2012, to commemorate the arrival of a British expedition to the South Pole a century ago. Scott and his men lost the Race to the... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2578 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/39d4788c3f1acdb4f85fe4ebdfe842d8a462cea00c968a3be3cd77cb139313e4.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:26 | null | 2008-08-29T00:00:00 | Some folks down at the South Pole are in line for a MacGyver award after fixing a satellite communications dish that helps connect the isolated research station to the rest of the world. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1522.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/marisat1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nick Powell/Antarctic Photo Library A crew encloses the MARISAT and GOES satellite communications dish for the South Pole Station in a radome in 2004. The gears that move the dish up and down grinded to a halt this winter because the extreme temperatures froze the lubricant, but the Polies at the station ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1522 | en | 2008-08-29T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/acccb0e665ff825ed046ab3fa251dee5e367bdffbea5f07992dbbbe4c22e8ff0.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:28 | null | null | An international team of researchers has combined data from multiple sources to provide the clearest account yet of how much glacial ice surges into the sea following the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2483.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/iceshelf_01.jpg | en | null | Off the shelf | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ted Scambos/NSIDC The Larsen Ice Shelf, on the Antarctic Peninsula, has experienced an unprecedented series of collapses. That has allowed the ice behind the shelf to flow more quickly. Researchers have combined data to understand more fully how Antarctica's ice is changing.
Off the shelf Researchers comb... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2483 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9f6fb653a429c4c8da45586fc5092f16cfc743fdf0d98d8b8ec1f30b58c860b2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:09 | null | null | The sun illuminates nacreous clouds as it peeks above the horizon on Aug. 20 near McMurdo Station, a day after the first sunrise since April 24. Nacreous clouds are rare, colorful clouds in the stratosphere that can form in the extreme cold of polar winter. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2890.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/nacreous-clouds.jpg | en | null | A cloudy day | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Cynthia Spence
A cloudy day
Sunrise in August lights up nacreous clouds
Photo Credit: Cynthia Spence Twilight illuminates nacreous clouds over McMurdo Station. Photo Credit: Cynthia Spence Nacreous clouds may be beautiful but they help set off the chemical reaction in the atmosphere that destroys ozone.
A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2890 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7df8b8e0d47a0e461337dcd567f8f977f6edf08f7c4788ba8e964048dbbdf35d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:09 | null | null | Antarctica’s most revered holiday was celebrated around the continent today. June 21, 2011 (local time), marks the winter solstice, the shortest “day” of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. Midwinter is a cause for celebration among the wintering parties in Antarctica, a tradition that dates back to the hearty explore... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2450.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/MCMURDO_4_30_11_v2.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ken Klassy/Antarctic Photo Library McMurdo Station entered the long Antarctic winter night in late April. The sun won't return until August. June 21 marks the winter solstice in Antarctica, when wintering crews from around the world pause in celebration that the long months of isolation are half over.
Mid... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2450 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/66408384d2182f66879815d0d3d70d649f04b6129e78cc9b84e761d1ad43e0b0.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:27 | null | null | Most people have seen the pictures of the crumpled Christchurch Cathedral or watched the video of a woman plucked from the roof of a collapsed building to safety by a fire crew. But was the destruction wrought by the 6.3-magnitude earthquake on Feb. 22 as bad as it looked in media reports? It was worse, say USAP person... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2385.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: Wikipedia Commons The Christchurch Cathedral in the center of the city after the Feb. 22 earthquake. Many USAP personnel were in the central business district when the 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit.
Christchurch earthquake Witnesses recall first days of crisis as search finds all USAP personnel are OK
Most... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2385 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8cc2feb9bfcd89a2512dcd849156557798b619123629a9a562b5d8f3083d0659.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:04 | null | null | By the end of the 21st century, if humans keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the world’s oceans may become a very inhospitable place for shell-building organisms. That has drawn a team of researchers to McMurdo Station in Antarctica to gauge the effects of ocean acidification on a purplish sea urchin and ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2632.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/place_aquarium.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Rupp Diver Robb Robbins collects sea urchins from the seafloor in McMurdo Sound for an ocean acidification experiment being conducted by researchers at McMurdo Station.
Baseline study Research on Antarctic sea urchins makes first long-term measurement of ocean pH
Talk about a bad acid trip.
By the e... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2632 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/43fd0fefacc7b1248e69d351217f40818599f22ab72078c881681edfb7e2aa5a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:01 | null | null | A large iceberg spotted about midway between Australia and Antarctica by scientists on Macquarie Island may be a distant relative of one of the big bergs that harried people and penguins earlier this decade near the U.S. Antarctic Program’s McMurdo Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1968.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Getting the drift | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Emily Stone/Antarctic Photo Library The edge of iceberg B15A in the Ross Sea on Nov. 17, 2004. The iceberg largely choked off the normal wind and water currents into McMurdo Sound for several years. Now it appears the remnants of the berg may be headed toward New Zealand.
Getting the drift Icebergs spotte... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1968 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/884cd28328b5558d5425bea38a28def2e1ad3123ddd5001f3f799492959eeb9c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:04 | null | null | The first study to characterize the feeding behavior of minke whales in the Antarctic has found that they can forage just below sea ice – the only such species to demonstrate that ability – and does so at a prodigious rate. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4066.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Video Information Scientists use a suction cup to humanely tag a minke whale. The NSF-funded research, which was conducted off the Antarctic Peninsula, was carried out under National Marine Fisheries Services permit 808-1735 and Antarctic Conservation Act permit 2009-014. Video courtesy of Ari Friedlaender.
A Mouthful
... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4066 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ae7b25ebd46ea3588e579be11380ffffd55643e3b6a918464967c81dbd279b45.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:53 | null | null | The story of how Los Angeles-based artist Lily Simonson ended up scuba diving under the sea ice in Antarctica begins with a tale about lobsters, moths and yeti crabs. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4144.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/robbins-diver-simonson.jpg | en | null | All Creatures Great and Small (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Artist Lily Simonson sketches in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. While her interests are usually in small marine organisms, Simonson also sketched landscapes during her deployment under the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.
All creatures great and small
Artist Lily Simonson ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4144 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/153ac69448e9fa3dbad16485994a635aa0ffad6254f28df5872896d0e56ca58f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:37 | null | null | One way to understand how Antarctica's ice will melt – which glaciers will recede when – is to look at how it happened in the past. Trevor Williams and his team traveled to a remote mountain range to collect rocks to help map out previous deglaciations. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4157.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/thomas-hills-foundation-stream-flow-map.jpg | en | null | Anatomy of a deglaciation | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Trevor Williams A team of scientists working in the Thomas Hills region of West Antarctica collects rocks that will help map out how the ice in this region melted during previous warm periods in Earth's history.
Anatomy of a deglaciation
Rocks samples will help scientists reconstruct previous changes to A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4157 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f94cb4f0c595f61c4e8a31ae599f1564f0c683d1eb2b8b0b94abb958fd939125.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:53 | null | null | In January 2013, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter POLAR STAR took its first steps toward returning to active duty on a brief three-day sail near its homeport of Seattle. A year later, America’s only working heavy icebreaker easily sliced its way through 12 miles of sea ice to McMurdo Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2986.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 The U.S. Coast Guard cutter POLAR STAR takes on fuel at McMurdo Station's ice pier, while a small boat at the far left deploys a boom to contain any fuel in the event of a spill. The icebreaker uses fuel for propulsion but also as ballast to help it break ice.
Active duty
Coast Guard cutter P... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2986 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ae6b1caa2061a8e043ac4914c0fadb2b70935afec27e12d3e2788d9250f06621.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:14 | null | null | Ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns have helped keep most of Antarctica from warming up with the rest of the planet. But the continent’s isolation hasn’t shielded it from manmade pollutants entering the polar food web. Scientists are using special techniques to track chemical signals from these pollutants to lea... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2319.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: Ingegerd Hageman Rebecca Dickhut and Swedish colleagues dig for snow and ice samples in the Amundsen Sea in 2007 during a previous expedition. Dickhut is interested in tracking persistent organic pollutants through the polar food web, believing the source to be glacial meltwater.
Polar pollutants DDT, pes... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2319 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/644c1ec4ca3e0d6868e97efaf684864d6015ccac16bbf975fa6a762159cfb23f.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:32 | null | null | The ozone hole that forms each year above the Antarctic was a little smaller in 2013 than in years past, according to a recent news report from the NOAA. In addition, measurements from the South Pole Station showed ozone levels in a critical region of the atmosphere did not drop as low as in years past. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2912.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: Kelli-Ann Bliss/NOAA South Pole staff release a high-altitude balloon, which carries ozone-measurement equipment more than 30 kilometers high in the atmosphere, in mid-September.
Shrinking back
Latest measurements by NOAA at South Pole show smaller ozone hole
The ozone hole that forms each year above the ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2912 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/39f644ed146e372a725581412c949870e0ce59f536a97f431a588f7e9dff5e11.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:29:25 | null | null | An iceberg the size of Rhode Island collided with a glacier tongue, spawning a second berg nearly as big. Now some scientists are concerned the dislocation of ice in front of the Mertz Glacier could alter ocean currents. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2048.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/berg_collision2.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA
Collision course Massive iceberg spawns second giant berg after banging away at glacier tongue
An iceberg the size of Rhode Island collided with the Mertz Glacier Tongue last month, spawning a second berg nearly as big. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2048 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f77fdfa34b026aa7b2cf2deeab969d61201f61e6db2a97afbaa033d307a92623.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:47 | null | null | The bottom of McMurdo Sound is teeming with life — from brittle stars to scallops to wildly diverse single-celled critters called foraminifera. That’s the story today. But what happened in the ocean millions of years ago? That’s a hard question to answer because there are few signs of these critters in the fossil recor... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1566.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/benthic_divers.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Clabuesch/Antarctic Photo Library Marine fauna abounds on the seafloor of Explorer's Cove, New Harbor, in McMurdo Sound. Fossil evidence of this benthic community is missing from the paleological record found in sediment cores, a puzzle that a team of scientists hopes to solve beginning this season.... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1566 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/87e33df0668a1539998e58a9636d28e32e40c4cc5bf283115afc34fc45f2b881.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:03 | null | null | Raytheon Polar Services Co. recently announced an extension to the charter for the ARSV Laurence M. Gould with Edison Chousest Offshore, Inc. The charter has been extended for five years, until July 2015, with an option for an additional five years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2054.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/gould_LTER10_pier_small.jpg | en | null | Gould charter extended | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek RPSC marine technician Justin Smith, left, and Chance Miller deploy a net off the stern of the ARSV Laurence M. Gould during the Palmer LTER science cruise in January 2010. The ship has supported the month-long cruise since 1997.
Gould charter extended Research vessel to continue to support N... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2054 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/47795eeaafddd7fd845951135b6464bf545635ef82610593edbcdd0181fd0526.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:09 | null | null | In a paper recently published in the journal Polar Biology, researchers David Ainley and Grant Ballard suggest Adélie and emperor penguins make choices about foraging for food based on the risk of becoming the prey rather than the predator. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2459.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: Robyn Waserman/Antarctic Photo Library Shiny, wet penguins jump up onto the ice after their feeding swim. A recent study says the Antarctic seabirds will not forage at night in order to avoid predators, a behavior rarely documented before in a marine animal.
Night fears Study finds penguins avoid foraging... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2459 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5acd86ab6780bef0f5163fd30d69d6a85c27d31f941dad9a115a58926e103c83.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:31 | null | null | It’s not every day hiking around the Transantarctic Mountains that one stumbles upon a piece of granite that’s 1.4 billion years old. But that “one-in-a-million” chance has proven to be a pivotal piece of evidence connecting East Antarctica to the western United States as part of an ancient supercontinent called Rodini... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1505.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/goodge_TAM.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Goodge Researchers Andrew Barth, left, and Devon Brecke collect rocks near Milan Ridge in the Miller Range of the Transantarctic Mountains. A 1.4-billion-year-old chunk of granite found by John Goodge's team has proven to be a valuable piece of evidence linking Antarctica to the western United States... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1505 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5364be567d274342beb97908d33fa939a52fc21357ca732943041566540f7e8d.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:02 | null | null | An expert panel convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a strategic vision for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) that lays out three “strategic priorities” for future research. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4180.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Report Offers a Vision for the Next Decade of Antarctic Research | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Rebecca Shoop The aftermath of an ice arch collapse. A new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine called for more research into how much melting ice sheets will contribute to rising oceans and their effects around the world.
Report Offers a Vision for the Next Decade of An... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4180 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c980b954375839b35d446aec6c43a2377182ff56023d96bf0f7b411058d4f458.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:23 | null | null | The LARISSA project is a way for scientists to look at a small system and all the bits and pieces that contribute to its fundamental change and refine their methods and models of how the larger parts of the Antarctic cryosphere will respond to the future. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1883.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/larissa_ventcmmty.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Adam Jenkins Most of the LARISSA team will work from the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer for two months in the Weddell Sea in an area infamous for being choked with sea ice.
System study LARISSA takes unique approach for research on ice shelf ecosystem
Eugene Domack and his colleagues aboard the ARSV Laurence ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1883 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a9737edbfce6aec333ad9fcb7d6adfabdc5404e2fe279531ce2895f727788673.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:25:18 | null | null | News emerged this week that scientists with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory likely captured evidence of the two highest-energy neutrinos ever observed. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2843.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/bertshirt_int.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: IceCube Collaboration Energetic excitement Finding by IceCube scientists suggests extragalactic neutrinos News emerged this week that scientists with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory likely captured evidence of the two highest-energy neutrinos ever observed. Above, a computer image of one of the two ultra... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2843 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/eab3edee286f15c90f19b40dd61867245fa25889a21f402502a584418bd5847e.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:06 | null | null | Sound like an awesome trip? Snowmobile to the middle of nowhere, set up camp and fly radio-controlled airplanes. Now take that same scenario and move it to Antarctica, where scientists used radio-controlled airplanes to investigate a region of the atmosphere integral in understanding and predicting the weather. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3000.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: John Cassano Scientist John Cassano prepares to embark on a 10-hour snowmobile traverse across the Ross Ice Shelf to fly radio-controlled aircraft that will sample the lowest layer of the atmosphere. The data should help improve weather predictions in Antarctica.
Tall order
Small airplanes soar high int... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3000 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b3b88a9158e185e9cc1925a0fa6f2b8f800dbc61d41fa76595b0a7d4ccd09ed2.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:31:38 | null | null | The polar regions and those who have devoted their careers to studying them are stars in their own traveling road show, POLAR-PALOOZA. A public education and outreach initiative supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA, POLAR-PALOOZA is something of a “scientific circus”, in the words of one of its o... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1298.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/polarpalooza in La.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sophie Warny/Louisiana State Museum of Natural Science Alaskan native Richard Glenn, standing, and other POLAR-PALOOZA speakers present stories about the polar regions to a packed house hosted by the Louisiana State Museum of Natural Science in Baton Rouge in November. The science road show will be back o... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1298 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/489064640ae1a14cfba93444b7f80e05f04a61e4d52088090deef494a28fbf67.json |
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"Jennifer",
"Jynne",
"Martin",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:25 | null | null | When poet Jynne Martin learned the National Science Foundation sponsored an Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, she immediately applied for a chance to visit the place of her childhood dreams. She followed seals and scientists in the pursuit to learn about the research for her next book of poetry. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2955.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/jynne-martin-ice-floe-penguins.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Jynne Martin Poet Jynne Martin observes the Adélie penguins at Cape Royds, one of several places she visited as part of the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program.
Poetic license
Jynne Martin writes about her experience with scientists, seals and heading South
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] | 2016-08-26T13:16:47 | null | null | Ernie Hand recalls the gasoline fireball filling the plane up to his ankles. He had managed to bring the U.S. Navy P2V-7LP Neptune back to the edge of the ice shelf before the crash landing that sent the converted bomber skidding across a half-mile of ice. Fifty years later, a memorial to the men who died and survived ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2658.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/wilkes_burch.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sepp Stadler Stan Wilson, left, and Ernie Hand unveil a plaque to memorialize the tragic crash of a U.S. Navy P2V airplane that occurred on Nov. 9, 1961, shortly after taking off near Australia's Wilkes Station. The plaque was taken from Australia and placed near the site of the wreckage last month.
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:26 | null | null | Researchers with the Palmer Long Term Ecological Research program are using a powerful new tool to sweep the ocean of important data—the Slocum glider, a versatile autonomous robot that can cover hundreds of kilometers for weeks at a time. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1416.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/glider_deploy.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Web site A crew deploys a Slocum glider. The robots can cover hundreds of kilometers on a single battery pack, sampling the ocean far more efficiently that a vessel on its own. A small fleet of the gliders will be used to collect data about the Palmer LTER study area.
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:27 | null | null | Mount Erebus is famous for its persistent but low-level activity as the world’s southernmost active volcano. But last year it threw one of its biggest recorded tantrums during its last 165 years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1232.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Erebus Sawyer (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Clive Oppenheimer Georgina Sawyer uses an infrared spectrometer to identify the gases emitting from Mount Erebus earlier this season on the rim of the volcano.
Throwing a fit
Mount Erebus experiences one of its most active seasons in 165 years
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:24 | null | null | A large iceberg broke off from the Erebus Ice Tongue at the end of February. The iceberg is currently floating in McMurdo Sound where the U.S. Antarctic Program’s McMurdo Station is located on Ross Island. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2823.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/erebus-ice-tongue-glacier.jpg | en | null | Tip of the tongue | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Harry House An iceberg calved from the Erebus Ice Tongue floats in McMurdo Sound, not far from McMurdo Station, in early March. The calving is a natural event. The last time an iceberg broke off from the ice tongue was in 1990.
Tip of the tongue
Large iceberg calves off Erebus glacier into McMurdo Sound
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[
"Ben Harding",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T12:54:20 | null | null | My father, Wesley B. Harding, came to Antarctica a little more than 50 years ago to install an early experiment to study cosmic rays from the sun. Strange to think that today I can send emails from a field camp and that balloons with sophisticated solid-state cosmic ray sensors are being launched to altitudes of more t... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4114.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/forward-scatter-ships-mcmurdo.jpg | en | null | A holiday to remember | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Wesley B. Harding A man installs an antenna on a tower near McMurdo Station for an experiment during the 1963-64 field season called Antarctic Forward Scatter Radio Propagation Network.
A holiday to remember
A son connects to his father through the decades from Antarctic field camp
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:42 | null | null | Last month was the warmest August on record for the South Pole, ending a winter that will go down as the mildest ever since record-keeping began in 1957. The weird weather has meant fewer clear days to enjoy the brilliant sky-filled nights and ghostly auroras. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2892.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/PanoSunriseStationPole_Gallicchio.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Marie McLane A Polie glimpses the coming of the sun on the horizon on a clear day at the South Pole, where record temperatures and winds have ruled all winter long. Last month was the warmest August on record for the South Pole.
Hot streak
South Pole experiences record heat in August to end warmest winter... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2892 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4c3d0ff540668346e6ad8de92900af6bbadd572f1fd29d232825d0b0ece0a19a.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:17 | null | null | Military personnel who support the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) recently received recognition for their work in Operation Deep Freeze and other missions. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1552.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/air_nz.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Scot Jackson/Antarctic Photo Library An LC-130 sits on the South Pole airfield runway toward the end of the 2007-08 field season. The ski-equipped planes are flown by the New York Air National Guard 109th Air Wing, which was recently recognized for its global mission, including Operation Deep Freeze.
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[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:19 | null | null | West Antarctica and Greenland get all the press when it comes to stories about climate change. But East Antarctica has more ice than both of those ice sheets combined, and some of its glaciers appear to be thinning. An aerial survey will use the latest technology to take a closer look. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1550.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/twinotter.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jim Ross/NASA NASA JPL scientists Yunling Lou, left, and Eric Rignot work on line selection while flying AirSAR missions over the Antarctic Peninsula in 2004. Rignot will lead a project to East Antarctica this season on an aerial survey of glaciers.
Going airborne Aerial survey will measure thickness of E... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1550 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e287b9cf8272d1fc3b6f1b7c63420259abd83f9e1b49d31c3a1e7186ffee2e04.json |
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"Steven Profaizer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:21 | null | null | The South Pole station rests on the Polar Plateau, an area of polar desert. The frigid year-round temperatures prevent liquid water from naturally occurring. The station relies on an under-ice well system to provide the needed water. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1205.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/pole aerial (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Schwarz The South Pole station
rests on the Polar Plateau, an area of polar desert. The frigid year-round temperatures prevent liquid water from naturally occurring. The station
relies on an under-ice well system to provide the needed water.
Digging deep for a drink
Rodriguez well brings water to t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1205 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f102e1e09c6cf1a5af356479104a9415c4ed6697e22459ba79f845f6422dcd21.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:35 | null | null | A cold, dark and oxygen-poor reservoir of water chemically similar to seawater seems an unlikely place to find a functioning ecosystem, particularly one trapped under an inland glacier in Antarctica. But samples collected from such an environment turned up an unusual microbial community. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1765.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/BLOOD_FALLS.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library The unique microbial community was found below Taylor Glacier near a feature called Blood Falls. Scientists believe the microbes subsist on iron and sulfur compounds to survive.
Ancient microbes Unique community of bacteria found beneath Antarctic glacier
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[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:43 | null | null | Climate change will most certainly increase the temperature of seawater in the coming century. It will also change the pH, turning the water more acidic as ever increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide are absorbed into the ocean. How might fish juveniles and eggs in the Southern Ocean respond? | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2964.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/todgham-student-experiment.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Anne Todgham checks on an experiment in the Crary Lab aquarium that involves introducing highly acidic waters into buckets containing fish eggs and juveniles. Higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are changing the pH of the oceans, which absorb the gas more readily at higher, colder lat... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2964 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f4ad162a24d7bc5fea086df98d534692df344eef9db07b18d303cbdefbf53292.json |
[
"Elaine Hood",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:25 | null | null | Antarctic hams have met the space age. While the thrill of hearing a loved one’s voice in the United States long ago vanished due to the ability of placing direct phone calls, Antarctic hams still get excited about opportunities to talk to members on the International Space Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1701.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Modern day hams | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nick Powell South Pole ham radio operators, from left, Nick Powell, Henry Malgrem and Skip Withrow in the ham room at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Ham radio has been in continual use at the South Pole and elsewhere in Antarctica for more than 50 years. Antarctic hams have even been in contact with t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1701 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b71565d0ca6c32e6857414484f42f3412a07c04c16393034a94442613f9f89f2.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:37 | null | null | A team of oceanographers will spend more than three weeks in the infamously rough Drake Passage to learn more about the world’s largest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1607.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/drake_cpies.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Teresa Chereskin Scientists and ship crew deploy a CPIES instrument during calm weather in Drake Passage last year. They deployed an array of instruments in the passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula to study the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Going with the flow Researchers brave Drake... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1607 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f463cdb823b72b9dfb01c1fd589d436544e5102a251873f3ef1b74c09519283a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:40 | null | null | A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III dropped 16 bundles of cargo at the South Pole on Dec. 16 during what has become an annual training exercise. This was the fourth air drop in as many years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1997.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/airdrop09a.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photos Credit: Bill McAfee Test run Air Force makes air drop over South Pole for training exercise A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from McChord Air Force Base in Washington State drops cargo over the South Pole Station on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 (local time). The cargo plane dropped 16 bundles (inset), mainly of... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1997 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/86efa6a3cf6f4a45afa415aaa90e1ebfa5e29530663ba72edc4fc6316f44fb0f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:10 | null | null | Underwater images of Antarctica often show an unearthly realm of gigantic sponges, alien jellyfish, and Adélie penguins shooting through the water like bulbous bullets. But three divers tasked with making repairs to Palmer Station's 43-year-old pier didn't see much wildlife during the cold hours they spent in the water... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2012.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 Travis Matoush, right, checks the hoses running to diver Steve Rupp's wetsuit. Rupp, Matoush and Rob Robbins are diving in the nearly freezing water near Palmer Station to repair its aging pier.
Pier pressure Divers make repairs to Palmer Station's aging wharf
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:57 | null | null | It took an extra four days, but McMurdo Station closed the doors on the 2012-13 summer field season on March 9, 2013 when a New Zealand Royal Air Force B-757 departed with 62 passengers, leaving 143 people to winter-over at the U.S. Antarctic Program's largest research station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2825.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/mcm-last-plane-chalet-antarctica-no-wm-sm.jpg | en | null | Up, up and away | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ben Adkison Up, up and away Final plane for 2012-13 summer field season departs McMurdo Station It took an extra four days, but McMurdo Station closed the doors on the 2012-13 summer field season on March 9, 2013 (local time). That's when a Royal New Zealand Air Force B-757 departed Antarctica with 62 pas... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2825 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7663a481b8fdbedbb1021a371f8eafc1a41c71c0810e4d2d90d7ecd9bc6663f8.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:25 | null | null | The smallest of three U.S. scientific outposts in Antarctica, Palmer Station is the only one of the trio found north of the Antarctic Circle. Its establishment 50 years ago this year has proven vital for climate change research in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4154.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/OLDNEWPALMERDF65.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jack Cummings/Antarctic Photo Library Palmer Station was completed in 1965 on Anvers Island off the Antarctic Peninsula. Three years later, a permanent facility was established less than two miles away. The smallest of three U.S. research stations has proven essential for studying climate change in Antarc... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4154 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/715ab5b36f520421c47ebac7d5543260bf203f1fdd2bca9dcbe4d3f36f527674.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:00 | null | null | The iconic South Pole Station Dome may be gone but it's not forgotten. And thanks to the efforts of three men, it never will be, after the top section was enshrined in a new Navy museum dedicated to the Seabee construction battalion in Port Hueneme, Calif. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2468.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/dome_jerry.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jerry Marty Lee Mattis, left, and John Perry, far right, assemble the hardware used to hang the top section of the South Pole Station Dome from the roof of the new Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme, Calif. Mattis, Perry and Jerry Marty have been working for years to save the dome and see it enshrined in a mus... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2468 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1cb49ba0f3bb3e40e622c94be208f8a49646ab2d3d511268043c7a0e4a6ed9aa.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:33 | null | null | The South Pole Telescope has been involved in investigating some of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Now the powerful instrument in Antarctica will be used to form an Earth-sized telescope to study a black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4037.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: Daniel Luong-Van/Antarctic Photo Library The South Pole Telescope has been involved in investigating some of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Now the powerful instrument in Antarctica will be used to form an Earth-sized telescope to study a black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Joining ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4037 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8cb5867fc9827de5efa0ad8dba0ed36e276d392bb745987db0bf118f91ed9be1.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:22 | null | null | A new topographical map of the bedrock below Antarctica’s biggest ice sheet has revealed some of the largest fjords on Earth. The findings should provide important insights into the history of ice in Antarctica, as well as improve computer models of how the ice sheet might behave in the future as the climate changes. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2453.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/fjords_radar.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jack Holt A modified WWII-era DC-3 airplane conducts an aerogeophysical survey over the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Data from three years of flights have revealed giant fjords that may indicate the continent's largest ice sheet is vulnerable to climate change.
Capped off Geophysical survey reveals giant fjo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2453 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/72a7c991ee5932b0dde003f75602a5c3a0c7c55a1867a394f76b9b78ffca435e.json |
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"Beth E. Simmons",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:09 | null | null | Even after more than two decades of monitoring one of the fastest changing regions on the planet, researchers with the Palmer LTER can still encounter a few surprises. This past season's unexpected encounters included extensive sea ice and a big phytoplankton bloom. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3005.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/Shipboard-measurements.jpg | en | null | Never a dull moment | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Johanna Blasi/PAL Teacher at Sea Johanna Blasi, a Palmer LTER Teacher at Sea during the 2012-13 field season, filters seawater samples taken from the CTD to analyze phytoplankton concentrations along the surface waters of the Palmer LTER sampling grid.
Never a dull moment
Palmer LTER scientists still en... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3005 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e91605ba735b37b035779f0af0095ab5b8464330ebd49f8f1f96dc7bf5b02396.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:51 | null | null | A Catholic priest from New Zealand, the Rev. John Jolliffe led the Midnight Mass on Christmas at the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station. The event marked the 50th anniversary since the Rev. Ron O’Gorman of the Christchurch Diocese traveled via icebreaker to Antarctica to become the first Kiwi priest to celebrate ma... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1334.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/chapel mass.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Fleet Ratliff The Rev. John Jolliffe performs mass in the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station. Catholic priests from New Zealand have performed a Midnight Mass on Christmas here for 50 years.
50 years of blessings
New Zealand priests enjoy long history of serving the church in Antarctica
The Rev. John ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1334 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6c1942ebffc67cd4b0c00007b51a34d3d8dab66f12d16e2759582fdca3ad9960.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:40 | null | null | Antarctica is not as remote as it once was. Planes reduce travel time to just a few hours. It’s possible to exchange instant messages between McMurdo Station and New York City. Big experiments stream gigabytes of data. But computer power in the polar regions still lags. The NSF is working to change that. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2949.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: Jeffrey Donenfeld Scientists work in the computer server room in the IceCube Neutrino Observatory laboratory building. The increasing complexity of polar research demands an equally robust cyberinfrastructure to support it. The National Science Foundation is taking steps toward that goal.
Networking
Works... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2949 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/33ddb97c5e54c883fbb344280a9f68e840f691a6badcec173bacb81177366909.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:50 | null | null | Scientists who normally spend much of the austral summer in the McMurdo Dry Valleys conducting long-term studies on that polar desert ecosystem are taking their research on the road to the Transantarctic Mountains. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1958.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/tambio_byron.jpg | en | null | Bounds of Biodiversity (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: BYU Byron Adams gathers a soil sample at the peak of a long hike up a hillside in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Adams will lead a small team of colleagues to the Transantarctic Mountains to look for areas of refuge that may contain life.
Bounds of biodiversity LTER scientists to seek out life in Trans... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1958 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dbcb25d679e245062efdb7317a576de1643134cd5c62fae3bf27f2a5cf8e7705.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:18 | null | null | More than three decades after much of the world banned or restricted its use, the pesticide known as DDT is still showing up at consistent levels in the tissue of Adélie penguins in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1436.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/DDT_penguins.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Geoffrey Gilbert Researchers Heidi Geisz, right, and Dan Evans survey seabird populations in the Antarctic Peninsula. Geisz recently published a paper that says DDT levels in penguins aren't declining as they are elsewhere in other animal populations around the world. She and her co-authors believe glacie... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1436 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/09fef4a23d29bfeb7f0985756735e3a357087f175cf1a8e7c7feed7c7ae77613.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:21 | null | null | A Royal New Zealand Air Force B757 departed McMurdo Station shortly after 6 p.m. on March 6, bringing the 2011-12 summer field season to an end. The winter crew includes 153 people, who will maintain operations through the six months of darkness and cold, until flights resume around mid-August. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2622.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/mcm_last_c17.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Richard Keat Fly away Last plane for summer leaves McMurdo on March 6 Photo Credit: Melanie Miller The last U.S. Air Force C-17 for the 2011-12 summer field season sits at Pegasus airfield. A Royal New Zealand Air Force B757, above, departed McMurdo Station shortly after 6 p.m. on March 6, bringing the 20... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2622 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c5cda5a7dd7f5e7606c68b068019a4e67b6377eb7c6d2ec40606a672b4956468.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:58 | null | null | During the International Geophysical Year, a period in the late 1950s of unprecedented scientific discovery, the United States established seven research bases in Antarctica, including McMurdo and South Pole stations. Lesser known are the small field camps and weather stations used by the U.S. Navy. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2630.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/LITTLEROCKFORD_2_6_59.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Richard and Charlotte Koch/Antarctic Photo Library
Camped out Historic photo shows aerial view of little-known IGY field camp
The International Geophysical Year , 1957-58, was a period of unprecedented scientific discovery and innovation, with particular emphasis on research in the polar regions. In Ant... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2630 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/687e6126d01bd11201054cdfedb7f6d01cf1b5df75c2a2c926daf3e769653dfc.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:14 | null | null | On Jan. 15, 1940, during Adm. Richard E. Byrd’s third expedition to Antarctica, a special moment in polar history occurred. George Gibbs Jr. became the first person of African descent to step onto the continent. Gibbs' daughter, Leilani Henry, is writing a memoir about her father's life to keep that story alive. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2268.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: Leilani Henry George Gibbs Jr. on the deck of the USS Bear, one of two ships used during Adm. Richard E. Byrd's third Antarctic expedition. On Jan. 14, 1940, Gibbs jumped off the ship to tie her up, propelling himself into the history books as the first person of African descent to step foot on the cont... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2268 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8c362da254c0c671e901cd804dd71da72598f93090699140f0e3b89f667ece6e.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:20 | null | null | The penguin colonies of the Ross Sea are in flux, with one colony in steep decline while the populations at other colonies in the region are growing tremendously. Researchers suspect a combination of natural and human causes are creating shifts in the numbers of penguins and associated marine species. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2361.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/WEIGHINGTHEFISH.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nate Biletnikoff/Antarctic Photo Library Adélie penguins float on an iceberg near Cape Crozier on Ross Island. Cape Crozier is home to one of the largest colonies of Adélies in the world. Scientists hypothesize its growth may, in part, be to shifts in the number of marine species in the Ross Sea due to pr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2361 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/69e47a7e442d3b7dd8b00576ca28ffe634d245b34dd8a600b718d8042826f5a1.json |
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