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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:07 | null | null | Time is ever so slowly eating away at the bad habits of the past. A decade-long environmental monitoring program at McMurdo Station is showing that contamination around the facility and the nearby marine ecosystem is holding steady or slightly decreasing. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2847.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientists Andrew Klein, left, and Steve Sweet, with Texas A&M University, collect soil samples at McMurdo Station to test for contaminants. A long-term monitoring program has found that contamination is holding steady or slightly decreasing around the station and nearby marine environment.
C... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2847 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a868f346d651352a350ac2039ae64f8307fc134be44a912d95304f88c89293df.json |
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"Steve Martaindale"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:22 | null | null | From small-scaled and personal methods, such as scientist Sam Bowser’s offer to speak to school classes, to sites such as penguinscience.com that allows students to watch nesting penguins and submit their observations online, numerous Antarctic projects are reaching out to spread the excitement of research. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1249.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Outreach exploratorium (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Exploratorium High school docents at the Exploratorium in San Francisco sit in on a Webcast featuring scientists from the South Pole Telescope project, seen on the left monitor.
Reaching out
More and more scientists go online to educate public about polar issues
The Web site of veteran Ant... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1249 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b8a10b0d95432c7e92d672da6399adf1395a50404c9a3f02010244956ee39c80.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:12 | null | null | A pair of campsites located high on the flanks of an active volcano in Antarctica – once used by British explorers a little more than a century ago – officially became part of history. The 50 nations of the Antarctic Treaty System formally adopted them onto the Historic Sites and Monuments list last year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2959.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/byrd-plaque-chalet.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Scott Polar Research Institute (left) and Clive Oppenheimer The discovery of a historic campsite in December 2012 on Erebus volcano led to its official listing on the Antarctic Treaty's Historic Sites and Monuments list.
Historic moment
New sites and monuments added to Antarctic Treaty heritage list
A pai... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2959 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4c477a2a93593fa779f04efc7dc053de8bba2de365dddc3b26108957a31811ed.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:52 | null | null | The National Science Foundation released its 2014 fiscal year budget this month, requesting $7.6 billion. The request includes nearly $465 million for the Division of Polar Programs, which includes funds to kick start a long-term plan to modernize facilities for the U.S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2842.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/traverse-three-tractors-leverett-glacier.jpg | en | null | NSF FY14 budget | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jeff Scanniello/Antarctic Photo Library McMurdo Station in February 2011. The National Science Foundation is requesting $18 million in fiscal year 2014 to begin addressing facility upgrades at McMurdo and Palmer stations.
NSF FY14 budget
Polar Programs would get funds to begin McMurdo, Palmer facility upg... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2842 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a3d26715c27c37fb4555fc82fa4be86eaaae1b9999c6a6c4cc1f75b3b6c3b450.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:46 | null | null | One of the most mysterious phenomena on Mount Erebus, ice caves created by the volcano’s steam, is increasingly drawing attention by scientists. That interest has necessitated the creation of a code of conduct to ensure that the scientific values represented by the ice caves are protected. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2757.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/erebus-aaron.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Scientists William McIntosh, left, and Aaron Curtis explore Hut Cave, one of more than 100 subterranean systems formed by Mount Erebus' geothermal processes. Increased interest in the ice caves by biologists has necessitated a code of conduct to protect their scientifi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2757 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7035b0f220601cd943f266eba7b46a914658460256a0274f15efb2870d35c223.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:25 | null | null | During the 2010-11 field season, personnel at the South Pole Station used a series of small explosions to collapse several old buildings, which had been buried under the ice but that had become a hazard to surface travel. Was it now safe to travel over an area known as Old Pole? The U.S. Antarctic Program enlisted Yeti... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2653.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Beast of Burden (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jim Lever Yeti conducts a systematic autonomous GPR survey across the site of the Old Pole station to determine whether any subsurface hazards remain at the site. Yeti can survey sites that could otherwise pose hazards to people.
Beast of burden Yeti robot tackles crevasse detection in polar regions
Durin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2653 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e6b4d800090f0f4b81eaefa3a0e26bfe53e12096be875f105e2b85326d4204bf.json |
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"Steven Profaizer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:43 | null | null | Dr. Harry Owens, 67, said he is 32 years into retirement, although one wouldn’t guess that from a resumé filled with remote medical experience, including his latest stop as lead physician at McMurdo Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1221.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/dr harry (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steven Profaizer Dr. Harry Owens has made a medical career out of tending to patients in the most out-of-the-way areas. As the lead physician this summer season at McMurdo Station, he has added another remote practice to his resumé.
Going where aid is needed
Dr. Harry Owens has traveled around the world u... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1221 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3e16134878a3219e2169d641470bbdb6510e599d35acf0593b91649f7c3c8b54.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:05 | null | null | Ian Joughin and his team have a tough job ahead of them: Determine how much ice from a vast swath of West Antarctica is being lost into the Amundsen Sea compared to the amount of snowfall the area receives. The project will require the scientists to fly across thousands of kilometers of ice later this year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1810.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: Kristan Hutchison/Antarctic Photo Library A Twin Otter flies over the ice of Antarctica during a previous field season. A similar aircraft outfitted with unique radars will fly Ian Joughin and members of his team over West Antarctica later this year.
Balancing act Aerial survey to help determine ice loss ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1810 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ff01016245e5e42f4c44c85d120b6963a17440f44e7220352ea3061d60106872.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:21 | null | null | The National Science Foundation (NSF) is teaming up with NASA and a private company to test an inflatable habitat that the space agency may use for a return expedition to the moon. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1290.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Bouncy House (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jeff Cole This inflatable building will be erected at McMurdo Station in Antarctica to test its resiliency for a future NASA moon mission.
To the moon
But inflatable habitat will first be tested in the harsh Antarctic environment
Antarctic science normally grabs headlines these days because of how the con... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1290 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3212ad688cff7a600312a90e755491f8fdbcbbac1ab0da4b8c9b504b4dad81c1.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:33 | null | null | They fly over outdoor concerts and battlefields. They come in all shapes and sizes Unmanned aerial vehicles are increasingly filling airspaces around the world. Antarctica is no exception. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4074.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/cresis-uav-student-mcmurdo.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Cassano An unmanned aerial vehicle launches from the back of a pickup truck, which drives down a groomed runway near McMurdo Station. The National Science Foundation has restricted the use of UAVs in the U.S. Antarctic Program until a formal policy is in place.
Restricted airspace
NSF announces limit... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4074 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a4f7193fb53115ec659ddbb42858c180a252ae01866e18775c3dbb87b5d16ad8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:23 | null | null | The theory of inflation holds that just a fraction of a second after the universe exploded into existence, it expanded exponentially. The search for the evidence that will finally prove or disprove one of the key concepts of the Big Bang model of cosmology has similarly expanded in the last decade or so. The South Pole... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2393.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Inflation at South Pole | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Physicist Justus Brevik works in the BICEP 2 telescope control room in the Dark Sector Lab at the South Pole Station. The telescope, with the pedestal in view at left, is searching the southern sky for the telltale sign of inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe that occurred after the... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2393 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/399c1aadf7c36465898cc2b5c517ddabacfce488e12c5ae7b9a519ded21b64bc.json |
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"Case Western Reserve University"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:13 | null | null | Scientists have studied the night sky for thousands of years searching for clues to help them understand the universe. The South Pole Telescope team achieved a major milestone toward using a new technique to probe the most mysterious component of the universe, dark energy. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1558.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/spt_mars.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Keith Vanderlinde/Antarctic Photo Library The Milky Way and aurora australis color the night sky behind the South Pole Telescope, an experiment to unlock the mysteries of the universe, including the nature of dark energy. The project recently discovered three new galaxy clusters.
Probing dark energy SPT t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1558 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/02c07ea10942a25696f5b9b79a1df9661572f124522abe42ced848c4bd0f099b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:55 | null | null | The Polar Geospatial Center has produced high-resolution imagery and maps of the Antarctic and Arctic in unprecedented detail. Now the National Science Foundation-funded center has created a series of web-based mapping applications for viewing high-resolution, commercial satellite imagery mosaics of the polar regions. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2946.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/PGC-Dry-Valleys.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: PGC Antarctic Imagery Viewer The Polar Geospatial Center Imagery Viewer allows scientists and others with federal funding or affiliations to create maps from a high-resolution satellite mosaic of Antarctica. Pictured here is Ross Island, home to McMurdo Station and Scott Base.
DIY mapping
Polar Geospatial... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2946 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fd80c59855b15808167f67eaf75e539fc5114830df164b827b3a0c813b0ccb32.json |
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"Sean Bonnette",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:06 | null | null | When scientists who come to Palmer Station need access to the islands and ocean waters nearby they have had only a few options available. Until this season. The R/V Point Sur, which is part of the UNOLS research vessel fleet, made a guest appearance in 2013. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2839.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Taking the point | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sean Bonnette The research vessel POINT SUR docked at the Palmer Station pier earlier this season. The vessel supported regional research for small teams of scientists.
Taking the point
UNOLS research vessels supports Antarctic research
When scientists who come to Palmer Station need access to the islands... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2839 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/28817ca3623b9cc54f033effb6a9bed8a9d5037a05e3300c836baf584db74b2c.json |
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"Nick Thomas"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:38 | null | null | Canadian painter Linda Mackey co-founded the Polar Artists Group two years ago. Coordinating with the International Polar Year, most of the group’s 50 artists, photographers, writers and filmmakers have traveled to the Arctic or Antarctic to create art to capture life in these extreme environments. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1380.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/linder.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chris Linder/WHOI Geologist Adam Soule uses a LIDAR to map the lava flows at Mount Morning with the Royal Society Range in the background. P hotojournalist Chris Linder shot this photograph while traveling around Antarctica last November on an educational outreach grant from the National Science Foundatio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1380 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dfcb92d3053a6e07f310a07b162c50f2594c1aa6cff9db7125455666915986b7.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:20 | null | null | Scientists have been extracting ice cores from Antarctica for the better part of 50 years. But no one has tried to do what a team of researchers and engineers propose in one of the snowiest regions of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Re-enter an existing borehole and recover replicate ice cores. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2697.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/wais_replicate_test.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jay Johnson/WAIS Divide The Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) drill tilts toward the borehole for coring operations during the 2010-11 field season. Later this year, the drill will be modified with a new replicate coring system to extract ice cores from the side of the present borehole that are of interest to ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2697 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a7bfda278c09793c3b9a0a04e8850284298faaed60015c15687c7975decbe26e.json |
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"Photos Sven Lidstrom"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:21 | null | null | The loneliness of the long-distance winter at South Pole Station is over. The first flights to the U.S. Antarctic Program's most remote station since mid-February arrived on Oct. 19. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2756.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/pole-otter-fuel.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Flight following
South Pole welcomes first aircraft since February
The loneliness of the long-distance winter at South Pole Station is over. The first flights to the U.S. Antarctic Program's most remote station since mid-February arrived on Oct. 19. Basler and Twin Otter aircraft, operated by Kenn Borek Air in Canada, ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2756 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cbd2fbe55ed58a2ccbc3ec09b036bc2e7befcdb622ae216abeb92135bed445d7.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:15 | null | null | The latest study in a project that has been supported by the National Science Foundation suggests that Weddell seals in Antarctica can remain flexible even in the face of changing environmental conditions. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4079.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: Mary Lynn Price Researchers with the Montana State University conduct fieldwork among the Weddell seals at Erebus Bay. Recent work by the team suggests that Weddell seal behavior can remain flexible even in the face of changing environmental conditions.
Self-exile
Temporary emigration by Weddell seals rev... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4079 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/54abdb82603e54cd29c34bbd0c4be5f61c95ad767ae3698635213a03cff18462.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:13 | null | null | “It’s just physics.” That’s the mantra coming from Richard Alley, a professor of geosciences at Penn State and one of the world’s leading experts in paleoclimatology and climate change, in a discussion about global warming. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2285.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | It's just physics | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek An ice-core handler at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver prepares to process a section of the WAIS Divide ice core. The core will provide a window into the past 100,000 years of climate.
It's just physics Climate-change expert discusses greenhouse effect, utility of ice-core research... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2285 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f919ecd2fde764c1435d3d5694360c47bb5804d1be3b505c2dabf2bdcdee33c3.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:32 | null | null | New results from a research expedition in Antarctic waters may provide critical clues to understanding one of the most dramatic periods of climate change in Earth’s history. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2115.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: John Beck/IODP The research vessel JOIDES Resolution encounters rough seas around Antarctica. An international team of scientists spent two months aboard the ship drilling sediment cores from the continental margin around the continent. The samples provide clues to past climate, back to 53 million years a... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2115 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4435dba7196c3bcecd15e60eea6a80de86f7a82539ad0606f18605b3233b1b00.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:17 | null | null | Scientists are tracking Weddell seals for a project to learn more about what drives the timing of their critical life history events – such as breeding and molting – and how disruptions in that natural cycle by changes in climate and environment might affect the world’s southernmost mammal. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2961.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Weddell's New Coat (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek (Marine Mammal Protection Act #17411) Scientists Linnea Pearson, Jenn Burns and Rachel Berngartt look over their notes as they search for several Weddell seals for a research project looking at how biology and environment influence major life events such as breeding and molting in seals.
The ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2961 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4029e8ade454f537c8072c96ad425269ad0e3089bb51542ef8fbcd0a4e920b2e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:23 | null | null | Ross MacPhee and his field parties have been blinded by snowstorms, nearly blown off an island by hurricane-force winds, and stymied by pack ice in the pursuit of Cretaceous-age fossils from Antarctica. Third time’s a charm? Try the fourth, when he and fellow paleontologists recovered some 200 samples. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2509.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/macphee_sharktooth.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kelley Watson A tent at a field camp on Vega Island in March 2011 where paleontologists recovered numerous Cretaceous-age fossils. The Naze of James Ross Island, where bits of dinosaur fossils were recovered, is visible in the background.
Big haul Paleontologists return from Antarctic expedition with abou... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2509 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f95e287f81afb8ccc5655f0daa58e8e3644869048eacb41859414364a84e10ec.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:06 | null | null | The opportunity to come to Antarctica was just one in a series of once-in-a-lifetime experiences, as far as “Shuttle” Joe Kendall is concerned. But it’s an opportunity that the 78-year-old Illinois farmer pursued for six years. His perseverance netted him a position this summer season as a shuttle driver at McMurdo Sta... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1348.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/joe_kendall.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek "Shuttle" Joe Kendall took up ceramics as a hobby during his time at McMurdo Station, creating a brood of penguins for his family. The 78-year-old Illinois farmer tried for six years to get down to the Ice, finally netting a job as a shuttle driver. He says he would like to return next season... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1348 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9fce44735b6a95b6959f9a645cc4ced5b53aad84b4e91ff6510a5ec66b11c114.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:20 | null | null | It’s cliché but true: Antarctica represents the harshest environment on the planet. That offers a hint about the nature of the research under way by Hubert Staudigel and colleagues, who head to some of the continent’s most gnarly environments to study how life ekes out a living. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2761.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/erebus-hutcave-staudigel.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Hubert Staudigel Hair-sized tunnels drilled by microbes into volcanic glass, which is a material that forms when lava cools very fast. Researchers are conducting a series of experiments in some of Antarctica's most extreme environments to see what sort of microbial life may have existed during Earth's ear... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2761 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8779757a8fd1e7304705b5c7c3f6087101dd0015b4bebe9ab2c6941f0fd41c47.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:20:55 | null | null | Kerry Chuck is a New Zealander who works in two different cultures as the head of the U.S. Antarctic Program's office in Christchurch, New Zealand, the main gateway to Antarctica for many who head south for science and support. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1813.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/kerry.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Kerry Chuck Kerry Chuck poses at the South Pole, displaying the New Zealand flag at the ceremonial pole behind the research station (above) and standing next to the geographic pole and American flag. Chuck heads the New Zealand Operations for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
Leadoff man Kerry Chuck heads the... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1813 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4271243c1a603ea3e69d00e7a75d520a679ffdfa120a64640230d36eb6f0acd8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:40 | null | null | Scientist Philip Wannamaker lets nature do half the work when it comes to studying the deep geology of the Earth. He led a research team this past season to Antarctica's largest mountain range to map the earth below the ice sheet using a technique called magnetotelluric sounding. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2430.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/wanna_group.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Philip Wannamaker Scientists John Stodt and Virginia Maris deploy the magnetotelluric sounding equipment for imaging the deep earth at a site near the Transantarctic Mountains and Ross Sea transition, an area often visited by fog. Team mountaineer Danny Uhlmann is in the background by the helicopter.
Ma... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2430 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/19cf95283ae38e03ddaad3e846fec6170d93c6b468099ddcff6047801cb8d49b.json |
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"Nick Powell",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:46 | null | null | A new satellite communications system at the South Pole will help keep science data flowing after an older satellite operating well past its prime succumbs to old age. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1741.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: NIck Powell/Antarctic Photo Library A crane moves the SPTR-2 satellite dish into position at the South Pole. The new ground station will allow personnel to track additional NASA TDRS satellites when TDRS F1 finally succumbs to old age, which could happen at any time, leaving the station with very limited ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1741 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dcc146754f56f211e51efd50f610bdc38ed23e3f0e28ff9f1276c62ee4e1b8b6.json |
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"Laura Gerwin",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:09 | null | null | Katy House thought she would live a fairly conventional life and be married with children at her age. Instead, at 27, she is the first woman in the world to travel on the thousand-mile-long South Pole operations Traverse, or SPoT, as a diesel mechanic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4104.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/traverse-train-bladders.jpg | en | null | Crossing the gender gap | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Laura Gerwin Katy House reaches for a wrench while working on a Challenger tractor. At age 27, House is the first female mechanic to work on the South Pole Traverse.
Crossing the gender gap
Katy House works as first female diesel mechanic on South Pole Traverse
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:24 | null | null | Memphis is a long way from McMurdo Station in Antarctica, but Alex Eilers has brought thousands of students, teachers and others along on an expedition to study Weddell seals. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4097.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/seals-outreach-flags-people.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Alex Eilers Members of Jenn Burns' field team, including Alex Eilers at right, unfurl a string of flags in front of Mount Erebus while working on sea ice. The flags were decorated by students in Tennessee. Eilers is leading outreach efforts to interest students in science.
Reaching out
Educator teams up... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4097 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b547ef2a8029bab6ffae6b0cf1c4f3bfc6e5d9f8e7b712bf2c889151ef15251b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:11 | null | null | Blue skies and above-freezing temperatures around McMurdo Station since the end of 2013 and through the first half of January may be a dream for those working a summer season in Antarctica – but it’s a nightmare weather scenario for an airfield built on ice. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2973.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | No Fly Zone (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Gary Cardullo Warm temperatures and dirt have caused melt problems at Pegasus Airfield white ice runway, which is used by wheeled aircraft. Sky-equipped aircraft are still able to use a compacted skiway (not pictured) for takeoff and landing.
No fly zone
Melt issues at airfield delay wheeled aircraft, s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2973 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/43409a425fc00bd25161a9187ee542e7e9fdb39f3f9b0949e59132f2d147f461.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:59 | null | null | Maps of Antarctica date back to the days of Roman geographer and astronomer Ptolemy, most of them widely creative but inaccurate until the 19th century. Today, the average person can zoom across Antarctica with Google Earth. And the imagery is only getting better. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1862.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/mapping_tongue.jpg | en | null | Mapping Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Image copyright Digital Globe - Processed by Paul Morin/AGIC A Quickbird satellite image of a field camp in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The high-resolution satellite imagery is so good one can pick out individual tents in a field camp. Paul Morin, principal investigator for AGIC, says it's like having an on-demand aerial ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1862 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/099dde6fc01173a014a37b9a8a3168b9f6f32d65bf3a332852b197bba3383343.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:06 | null | null | Mike Goebel uses high- and low-tech methods to find what Antarctic fur seals had for dinner. The interest in diet isn’t simply for curiosity’s sake. Goebel and his NOAA colleagues use the information to study the health of the marine ecosystem around Livingston Island. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1625.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/shir_seal.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: MIke Goebel/NOAA Magazine An Antarctic fur seal lounges in front of the Cape Shirreff field camp on Livingston Island. Researchers on the island primarily study seals and seabirds that prey on krill to learn more about how the ecosystem is responding to climate change and commercial fisheries.
Keeping tra... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1625 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ff42d5b00b3df12d69166de2c546fe6a509b6311cbb1d24904fcf65ce2eb6c47.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:15 | null | null | Below all of Antarctica's ice sits the answers to a host of questions about its geology, from how the continent evolved tectonically to its relationship with past supercontinents. A new project funded by the National Science Foundation will help researchers get to the bottom of the ice sheet. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4061.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/raid-goodge-rocks-bad-weather.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Goodge/Antarctic Photo Library Scientists collect rocks in the Transantarctic Mountains that are 1.4 billion years old. More than 99 percent of Antarctica's geology is below the ice. A new project seeks to recover rocks underneath the ice sheet, as well as samples of ancient ice near the bedrock.
Qui... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4061 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4a776207b2cc9e2f742fecb862ab2225f7965d658932890f1427e0ea4a531310.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:25:58 | null | null | In 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf shattered in spectacular fashion, shocking the polar science community with the rapidity of its disintegration. A decade later, a multidisciplinary team of scientists traveled to the region of the Weddell Sea that had once been under the shadow of the ice shelf to understand the changes ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2675.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/larissa_Brendan-Reilly-bringing-a-kasten-core-on-deck.jpg | en | null | A Good Proxy (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Brendan Reilly Crewmembers aboard the NATHANIEL B. PALMER bring a kasten core on deck of the ship during the LARISSA research cruise to the Larsen Ice Shelf region earlier this year. Scientists are studying the effects wrought on the local ecosystem by the disappearance of the ice shelf.
A good proxy LARI... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2675 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c7e8215b4f0f6732c9970b1929b659342a9d713d90e26bc9931146de9429b310.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:44 | null | null | Chris Linder has taken part in two dozen research expeditions over the last decade, many of them to the polar regions. It seemed only a matter of time before he produced a book on his experiences from four of those expeditions, including one to Antarctica and a visit with the continent's iconic bird, the Adélie penguin... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2584.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Embedded with scientists | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chris Linder/WHOI A picture by photographer Chris Linder of Adélie penguins from his 2007 trip to Ross Island for a story about the work done by penguin scientist David Ainley, which was included in Linder's recent book about polar research called "Science on Ice."
Embedded with scientists New book chroni... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2584 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ff8e5318d4381beb7d8c3d5ce7614e2643a9de98701d22da60dcd42f75780bb2.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:57 | null | null | It was a frigid start to July for those wintering at the South Pole. An eight-day cold snap at the beginning of the month had temperatures hovering near minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with record lows recorded on seven of those days. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4178.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/pole-wx-screenshot.png | en | null | A Cold Week at the Pole | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Marissa Goerke The moon shines brightly over the South Pole Station during the particularly chilly first week of July, 2015.
A Cold Week at the Pole
It was a frosty 4th of July at the South Pole Station as temperatures hovered around minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit for eight days.
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:51 | null | null | Katharine Coles isn’t your stereotypical poet. She founded the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, and she comes from a family of scientists. So it certainly wasn’t a stretch that her interest in science would take her to Antarctica on a grant from the National Science Foundation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2882.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/kate-coles-poet-reading.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jennifer Bogo Poet Katharine Coles stands among a small colony of Adélie penguins near Palmer Station in 2010. A grantee under the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Coles recently published a book of poetry about her experiences on the Ice.
Not flat
New poetry book about Antarctica is well rounded wi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2882 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/57375dcd48c1ae8de7cc2492c867a6651f3c22fcb745bf5bf39206e691e10f4b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:54 | null | null | The dome is down — marking the end of an era and completion of major modernization efforts at the U.S. Antarctic Program’s South Pole Station. It took a construction crew only a month to unravel the geodesic dome, which for about three decades sheltered polar researchers and support crews who lived at the bottom of the... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2057.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/dome_demo_jan%207_fisheye.jpg | en | null | The Dome is down | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Forest Banks The South Pole's geodesic dome was more than half disassembled as of Jan. 7, 2010, only about a week before the last panel was taken down. For three decades, it sheltered polar researchers and support crews who lived at the bottom of the world. The Dome is down Iconic South Pole Station build... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2057 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6d61cae9b1af1a76f55e8c3c3168db4439b3b09c6d274c40baa8f1dac578d0f7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:58 | null | null | No, Metallica didn't play at McMurdo Station, but a dozen local bands rocked in the New Year in Antarctica's annual musical festival. McMurdo's 2013 New Year's Eve show was the 25th edition, a volunteer effort carried out mainly by support personnel during off hours. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2958.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 Still rockin' Icestock rings in the New Year at McMurdo Station with 25th anniversary show No, Metallica didn't play at McMurdo Station , but a dozen local bands rocked in the New Year in Antarctica's annual musical festival. The heavy metal band played in front of a small audience in the Sou... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2958 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/90f60acf7bf4409c7e80f0ede2df0e6d99bfb76f61a7ae9d785650f1835784c9.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:15 | null | null | The canon of Antarctic history is by no means small. Yet author Jason Anthony has found a fresh way to tell the story. His account deals with human endurance and dramatic exploits. And the role of food through the brief decades of human occupation in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2781.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | From the gut | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Jason Anthony Former U.S. Antarctic Program participant Jason Anthony at a field camp in the Ford Ranges. Anthoney recently published a book, "Hoosh," about the history of food in Antarctica.
From the gut
Former USAP participant writes book about history of food in Antarctica
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:36 | null | null | It makes sense that life in extreme environments requires an organism to be “lean and mean” to survive. The recently sequenced genome of Antarctica’s only endemic insect suggests that may apply genetically as well. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4077.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/palmer_buggers_lee.jpg | en | null | Good things in small packages | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientist Richard Lee looks for the Antarctic insect Belgica Antarctica on Torgersen Island during the 2009-10 field season. Lee and co-principal investigator David Denlinger are returning to the Antarctic in 2016 to continue their studies into the bug's unique adaptations to the Antarctic en... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4077 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dd802ace2359182db4993ac9c9ebb8740a34f2bfdd30908ceb5038881f0273dc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:18:20 | null | null | South Pole Station residents gather at the geographic pole on Veteran's Day in honor of the holiday. The U.S. military has a long history of involvement in Antarctica, which continues today with logistical support mainly from the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2301.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/pole_vetsday_small.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Al Baker Pole patriotism Station personnel gather to honor Veteran's Day South Pole Station residents, above, gather at the geographic pole on Veteran's Day. The U.S. military has a long history of involvement in Antarctica. In the early 20th century, Adm. Richard E. Byrd was a pivotal figure in explorati... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2301 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5fdcf46187f6e7f48538f3bf2e27405cd3da3d5d64f9bcdbac4b398779596bcb.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:27:13 | null | null | Few topics in science are as hotly debated as the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, though evidence continues to pile up in favor of the theory that an asteroid impact on Earth dealt a geologically swift blow to the Earth’s dominant fauna. But a team of scientists suggests there was at least one “pre-cu... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2486.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Before the end | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Thomas Tobin Scientists Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink use a paleomag drill to extract an ammonite fossil from the side of a hill during their expedition to a series of islands off the Antarctic Peninsula. The researchers believe they found evidence of a minor extinction prior to the one that killed the di... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2486 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0a286e8e70558a37badf48877edeb0650b8ddad49d63895dec98bc190c9875b2.json |
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"Michael Christiansen",
"Special To The S"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:50 | null | null | One hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, offering a tragic end to the famous Race to the South Pole. On March 29, 2012, winter-overs at McMurdo Station honored his memory with a climb to the top of Observation Hill where a memorial to Scott and his companions stands. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2637.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/mcm_obhill_memorial.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jonathan Haeussler
In memory McMurdo winter-overs observe 100th anniversary of Scott's death
One hundred years ago, Robert Falcon Scott lay dying — his journal secured beneath his shoulder — in his tent with two companions as severe weather prevented them from traversing the 11 miles to a resupply depot. ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2637 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/48da215ef45fa2ef5a721a32b6e4480c6ef2df3ea226bda0e05fe160d74c37a8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:19 | null | null | Hundreds of sea stars were discovered washed up on the snow-covered beach at Cape Evans on Ross Island earlier this month. The phenomenon has scientists and others scratching their heads. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2895.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/button-top.gif | en | null | On the seashore | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alasdair Turner Hundreds of sea stars were discovered washed up on the snow-covered beach at Cape Evans on Ross Island earlier this month. The phenomenon has scientists and others scratching their heads.
On the seashore
Hundreds of sea stars wash up at Cape Evans
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:27 | null | null | A century ago, Briton Robert Falcon Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen raced to be the first people to reach the geographic South Pole, one of the last great feats of polar exploration. Today, two men with similar names are in Antarctica during the centennial season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2579.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/kris_amundson.jpg | en | null | The next generation | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Kris Amundson, IT network engineer at the South Pole Station, speaks with Norwegian State Secretary Hans Kristian Amundsen on Dec. 12, 2011, just before the 100-year anniversary of when Roald Amundsen arrived at the South Pole. Amundson says he is distantly related to the famous polar explore... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2579 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/188068cfa3fc08643abbc68274fade85266b76a1c6f1311b92990d69f9861b1e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:05 | null | null | The Adélie penguin boomtown known as Cape Royds went bust in the 2000s. Now there are signs that a recovery is under way. The volcanic rocky headland on Ross Island has always been a sleepy place compared to the other Adélie penguin colonies in the region. It represents the farthest south Adélies have dared to set up b... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2854.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Return to boom times? | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek The Adélie penguin colony at Cape Royds once numbered 4,200 breeding pairs. It dropped during the 2000s but there are signs the population may be bouncing back.
Return to boom times?
Cape Royds penguin colony shows signs of bouncing back
The Adélie penguin boomtown known as Cape Royds went bu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2854 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fe2bc19aeb4866da2ca066777847287d15ac13786c41ae098fa442b431e62a64.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:48 | null | null | There’s a saying that necessity is the mother of invention. April Surgent discovered that being trapped by ice at a research station in Antarctica for the better part of two months required a little flexibility and ingenuity when it came to fulfilling her artistic vision. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4085.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/april-surgent2.jpg | en | null | Through the looking glass | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Clair Vonhandorf Artist April Surgent draws an Antarctic landscape from Gamage Point near Palmer Station. Surgent is creating a series of glass engravings from her visit to Palmer Station in 2013 with support from the National Science Foundation.
Through the looking glass
Artist employs rare techniques to... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4085 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f58edf6d8c501ca3c14f44159a9f4a489f0c83b5be1efb5651395ae722299c89.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:46 | null | null | A leading expert in ocean acidification from California State University San Marcos, Victoria Fabry is the principal investigator for a team of scientists in Antarctica studying how Southern Ocean pteropods, small gastropod mollusks (sea snails and slugs), may respond to higher acidic levels of seawater predicted for t... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1343.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/ocean_acid_bubbles.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Graduate student Tansey Hall, left, and undergraduate John Tollison bubble water in the aquarium room located in the Albert P. Crary Science and Engineering Center at McMurdo Station. They are increasing the acidity of the ocean water to see how the calcified shells of small ocean critters ca... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1343 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/aced52c039b90d29e4ba2515bd2bb8b692cee03ba8b72feef28327c7a5c8c72d.json |
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"Jill Sakai",
"University Of Wisconsin-Madison"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:13 | null | null | Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results, including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2228.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/icecube_trencher1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | /AntarcticSun/science/images/
Photo Credit: National Science Foundation IceCube workers cut a trench in the snow at the South Pole to lay a communications cable for the detector array buried underneath the ice. The neutrino telescope has made new discoveries about cosmic rays, something it was not originally designed t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2228 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/087602e60078c3ee3913568085c3020fd7987785a1f7fc0c861f773c8477f088.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:19 | null | null | High-resolution satellite imagery is refining and reinventing the way scientists track and study wildlife populations, particularly in the Antarctic, where researchers have made headline-grabbing discoveries about Adélie and emperor penguins in recent months. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4055.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/hut-point-penguins-ice-floe.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Adélie penguins at Cape Royds, Ross Island. High-resolution satellite imagery is refining and reinventing the way scientists track and study wildlife in the Antarctic, where researchers are finally able to create a baseline of penguin populations to assess future chang... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4055 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/db2821c027ea8bde502a3fd5fa114a2174a5987e935bcc147369c30cdc22c4d4.json |
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"Silvia Bravo",
"Wisconsin Icecube Particle Astrophysics Center"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:52 | null | null | Austral summers are not as exciting now as they once were when the IceCube Neutrino Observatory was under construction at the South Pole Station. But quality data collection still depends on how much can be done during the brief summer. This one will be especially busy with a major upgrade under way. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2953.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 IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been running at full speed since construction was completed in December 2010. Now the detector is undergoing its biggest upgrade to date following what many consider the biggest discovery in physics this year of neutrinos originatin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2953 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/42caf3d426f3188c1aba6c48c6f8ef2a3a942d70de25cf0b1a71c2baeab1b883.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:03 | null | null | Scientist Bob Bindschadler will journey to one of the harshest parts of Antarctica to study how the ocean interacts with ice at the continent's perimeter by looking underneath the ice sheet. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1277.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/Pine Island sat image (top).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA A satellite image from NASA's Landsat Program shows one of Antarctica's fastest moving glaciers, Pine Island Glacier. Glaciologist Bob Bindschadler will head to the region to study the interchange between ice and ocean in ice sheet melting.
Going to the edge
Project combines glaciology, oceanography ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1277 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0f62427137d3c26f07e62e653d455821d5b2af3ea808aec61cc3fcb3bdb32831.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:14 | null | null | The National Ice Core Laboratory reopened for business once again in May to prepare about 280 meters of ice drilled from a lonely, snowy region of West Antarctica for analysis by U.S. scientists studying past climate change. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2858.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/wais-divide-camp-skiway-11.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Slender tubes await slivers of ice that are being processed in the National Ice Core Laboratory at the Federal Center in Lakewood, Colo. The ice from West Antarctica was specifically targeted for time periods of abrupt climate change.
Faithful reproduction
Team at NICL processes replicate ice... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2858 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0eaf907041954435a58f8aca59f4771fa406e1b70b3ac09ac39336c5c4970ffe.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:03 | null | null | Four years ago, scientists set up the High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz (HEAT) telescope in the middle of the high Antarctic plateau, more than 500 miles from the South Pole. The harsh environment and unique atmospheric conditions here make it one of the best places on Earth to study the cosmos. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4211.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/HEAT-uncovered.jpg | en | null | The Stuff Between the Stars | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Craig Kulesa There's nothing but the barren polar plateau for hundreds of miles around Ridge A, home to the HEAT Telescope and the temporary camp for researchers servicing the instrument.
The Stuff Between the Stars
Researchers brave one of the harshest spots on Earth to learn how we’re all made of star s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4211 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/60e4b7596e2bebaddbaaa7c5c418d5c206d98925d11403e07c60ed7b10d50e9b.json |
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"Richard Panek",
"Special To"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:27 | null | null | Richard Panek went to the South Pole on an NSF grant to see the astronomical facilities as part of the research for his next book. His topic is about a mystery that many researchers feel might be the most significant and profound in science today: What comprises the vast majority of the universe? | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1915.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/Antarctic Photo Library Auroras shimmer over the South Pole Telescope and Dark Sector Lab. The conditions at the South Pole make it one of the ideal places to observe the universe short of going into space.
Benign Space South Pole offers ideal location to observe the mysteries of the uni... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1915 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2e6f552e9f740f10575bfdaa38d2d78c994e18576fa578df03a9a9e821120b81.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:22 | null | null | Richard Alley, Evan Pugh professor of Geosciences at Penn State, is a recipient of a $100,000 Heinz Award for being a leader in climate and polar ice studies. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2518.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/alley.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Kendrick Taylor/WAIS Divide Scientists examine the stratigraphic layers in a snow pit at the WAIS Divide field camp in 2008 where researchers drilled the longest U.S. ice core in history. Scientist Richard Alley is an expert on the physical properties of ice cores and is a funded investigator on the WAIS ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2518 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/16b2b7a29fc187a1b744cd51101e8c8e9e32e162798787bce4cbaf7909d2f807.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:24 | null | null | Between the few brief months when the sea ice in McMurdo Sound finally solidifies and then starts to fall apart again, scientists and support personnel move back and forth across its ice-covered surface. It’s up to local mountaineers to monitor the sea ice for safety. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4092.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/sea-ice-back-door-bay.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Mountaineers Ned Corkran and John Loomis examine a crack near an iceberg that is frozen in the sea ice close to Cape Evans, Ross Island. Travel on sea ice for research and operational needs requires constant monitoring to ensure safety. This crack is wide enough for vehicles to require a brid... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4092 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/169441fc17837b55ea65ab0079685a6427049b420a2408f22cc4ad4423a4262a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:43 | null | null | South Pole Station winter-overs waved farewell to the last LC-130 aircraft of the 2011-12 field season on Feb. 15, as it headed north back to McMurdo Station. Fifty people will spend the next eight months or so at the world's southernmost research station, isolated from the rest of the world except for Internet and voi... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2601.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/pole_lastflight_crowd.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sven Lidstrom Last flight South Pole Station settles in for another winter season Photo Credit: Sven Lidstrom The last LC-130 aircraft at South Pole Station for the 2011-12 field season as it taxis on an ice runway. South Pole Station winter-overs, above, wave farewell to the last LC-130 aircraft (on the ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2601 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0cda0ec6bb43aebbd4b30fafd6144b95e6765ce82939fc0015c8b1719edb1f94.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:51 | null | null | David Huebner, United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, went to Antarctica this past week, his first visit to the icy continent since being sworn into the post in December 2009. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2311.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/nzambassador.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. Embassy New Zealand and Samoa David Huebner, United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, arrives at the South Pole Station on a New York Air National Guard C-130 last week during a visit to Antarctica. Huebner was sworn into his post in December 2009. Diplomatic visit U.S. ambassador to New Ze... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2311 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7a37b971474636389d67a5395cf0fa2ee7b7fd5c208108c9dcbcc95aca09faf6.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:41 | null | null | The National Science Foundation is seeking nearly $7.3 billion for fiscal year 2015, including $435 million for the Division of Polar Programs. The request includes $18.5 million to support improvements to the U.S. Antarctic Program recommended by a 2010 Blue Ribbon Panel. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2999.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/traverse-mountains.jpg | en | null | Delivering the goods | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: David Weimer/www.beyondthebackyard.com The South Pole Traverse makes its way down the Leverett Glacier in December 2013. The National Science Foundation fiscal year 2015 budget request for the U.S. Antarctic Program includes about $9 million for new equipment for the traverse, which delivers fuel to the S... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2999 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2b5276275fdc78c2e4cb1819bdcce16f347d827c900b69940c16727897ddd825.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:23 | null | null | After a long career providing communications support, including a decade at the South Pole, NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 1 (TDRS-1) was retired in June 2010. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2191.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: Gary Ferentchak/Antarctic Photo Library The South Pole Tracking Relay-2 (SPTR-2) satellite communications ground station with completed radome around antenna. The ground station is used to track other TDRS satellites after TDRS-1 was no longer in use last year. The NASA satellite was formally retired in J... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2191 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/befe8376dcb078dc158247c8058f652d079d8cc23694fb4d0649c35314458d7a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:57 | null | null | Adult students in a New Orleans literacy class are swapping stories and e-mails with a group of people spending the dark, cold winter in Antarctica. It all started with a little geography lesson and a box of maps. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1500.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: Calee Allen/Antarctic Photo Library An aurora shimmers over the South Pole in this shot by Calee Allen, who is one of the Polie winter-overs corresponding with an adult literacy class in New Orleans. The post-Katrina residents are interested in everything from climate change to what's on the dinner menu. ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1500 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0e94b8df0e8d9118c2bd4af44c785a2d9b275542bbdebd52b9daf3a284dc786d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:35 | null | null | There’s typically a lag in traffic above the airspace around McMurdo Station during the month of September before the beginning of the Antarctic summer field season in October. Not so this year. Small unmanned aerial vehicles will fly around Ross Island and much farther afield for research on atmospheric dynamics in An... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2726.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: John Cassano An Aerosonde Mk4.4 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) launches from the top of a pickup truck at the Pegasus White Ice Runway in September 2009. Scientists are returning to Antarctica this month to use the UAV and a model-airplane sized UAV to study atmospheric conditions.
Crossing boundaries UAVs... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2726 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6699dfe44e3b4766720cd33718d04bf81cd2612b3a352d01dda5e9ef8b945f7f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:23 | null | null | The National Science Foundation is seeking an 8.5 percent increase in funding for the 2010 fiscal year, with large investments requested in the Office of Polar Programs for climate research and energy security. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1781.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | NSF budget 2010 | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James Walker/Antarctic Photo Library McMurdo Station in the middle of winter, May 2009. The U.S. Antarctic Program research station may see investments in energy initiatives if Congress approves the National Science Foundation's 2010 fiscal year budget request.
NSF budget 2010 Agency seeks 8.5 percent inc... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1781 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b1b84b8df6270440704040e8344d9f4090f09b812588bd67258b06129f35561a.json |
[
"Guy G. Guthridge",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:03 | null | null | The Antarctican Society started in Washington, D.C., in 1960. In just a few years, it grew from a local club to an organization with members from around the world. Today, the Society continues to preserve the past but looks to change with the times. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2782.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: Bruce Raymond/Antarctic Photo Library Historic Hut Point near McMurdo Station during the 1960-61 summer. The Antarctica Society was founded in Washington D.C. around the same time. The organization preserves the past as it attempts to remain strong into the future.
High society
Venerable Antarctic organiz... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2782 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1bc5a4c0cbc63490b40271d095d5e5da49a6c2f7c5bf86e474d462d6a0f18a33.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:49 | null | null | Dinosaurs, asteroids and death — mass extinctions don’t get more exciting than the most recent one of 65 million years ago when an asteroid apparently hit the Earth and wiped out most of life, including the dinosaurs. But one team of scientists is heading to Antarctica to possibly challenge that orthodoxy. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1534.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/kt_joe1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Joe Kirschvink Geobiologist Joe Kirschvink points to the KT extinction boundary on Seymour Island. Kirschvink and colleagues are headed to the Antarctic Peninsula to search for evidence that the 65-million-year-old extinction event was well under way when an asteroid hit the Earth.
What killed the dinos... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1534 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cc44fd7f6e1f05660208fd5ac9984770f11b1938d7d6451b651b0b679f2f473b.json |
[
"Tracy D'Souza",
"South Pole Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:29 | null | null | Getting to the South Pole went a little less smoothly for carpenter Mark Freeland than the operation to lower the historic sign that has hung over the entrance to the iconic dome for three decades. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1291.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Freeland.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ethan Dicks Mark Freeland and the heavy carpenter crew remove the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station sign welcoming people to the iconic dome building, which will be removed in the coming years.
Sign of the times
Carpenter Mark Freeland finds himself at the South Pole during an historic moment
“Men, you ju... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1291 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f31a321f63d9ed4287ae1607474c71d4daeb006b2757ee65ca088a4e17876de2.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:34 | null | null | Alexander Simms and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University recently returned from the beach, but they don’t have the tans to show for it. Of course, beachcombing in Antarctica as winter approaches isn’t exactly a holiday experience. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2153.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Antarctic beachcombing | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Alexander Simms Members of Alexander Simms' research team survey a raised beach along the Antarctic Peninsula. The scientists collect rocks that they can date to reconstruct the size of the ice sheet that once covered the Antarctic Peninsula.
Antarctic beachcombing Scientists seek to reconstruct peninsu... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2153 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6895deac6fb735b982187a8ac9c87ac42ec4550eb6a0c45e292e0be2414eb432.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:09 | null | null | Scientists working on the longest-running Antarctic seal population study are using a new technique that needs little more than an off-the-shelf digital camera to turn photos of Weddell seals into important new data in their continuing research. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4192.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/Photogrammetry-2.jpg | en | null | Weighing Seals Without Scales | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Eric Boyd A Weddell seal mother stretches out with her pup at the at Hutton Cliffs seal colony.
Weighing Seals Without Scales
Thousand-pound seal moms don’t much like being herded onto scales to be weighed, but they don’t seem to care about having their picture taken.
Photo Credit: Jay Rotella PhD student... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4192 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/42f5124481610d73d47a796cd5b7eadd5d9a75f85f47b611d4e5be252037fa41.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:02 | null | null | An Adélie penguin colony can be a cacophonous place, with hundreds of birds braying in an unlikely chorus. That was one of the sounds that Cheryl Leonard wanted to capture, but it wasn’t the most interesting one that she discovered. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1842.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/cheryl_jacobs.jpg | en | null | Sounds of snow | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Oona Stern Cheryl Leonard records the sounds of brash ice in the frigid waters around Palmer Station. The San Francisco-based composer creates music using recorded sounds and "instruments" found in the natural world.
Sounds of snow Leonard discovers music in the cracks and creaks of Antarctica
An Adélie p... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1842 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/187b48426802b717030083572b364727a4994697a0d0e4429514030eeede7113.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:17 | null | null | One of the world’s biggest break-up stories isn’t in Hollywood. It’s taking place around Antarctica. An iceberg that calved in March 2000 from the Ross Ice Shelf is continuing its slow disintegration in the Amery Sea, nearly halfway around the continent from where it started. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4081.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/B-15T-calving-event.jpg | en | null | Where are they now? | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: U.S. National Ice Center Descendants of the might B-15 iceberg that calved off the Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 continue to break apart. B-15T recently spawned three more icebergs after it was clipped by another iceberg passing by in the Amery Sea.
Where are they now?
Iceberg descendant of famous B-15 continues... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4081 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/be83cd787ea1c0b330c43af8c13ca08464f32f3e12b92ef553a7574520125c48.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:46 | null | null | Hugh Ducklow and his colleagues aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould travel back in time every January. The journey is a spatial one, from north to south, but along those hundreds of kilometers, they travel from a land transformed by climate change to a region still cold and dry. Just as all of the Antarctic Pe... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2160.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | Back in Time (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientists and ship crew aboard the research vessel Laurence M. Gould lower the AC-9 instrument in the water. The device measures light properties in the ocean, which tells researchers where they want to take water samples for analysis.
Back in time Palmer LTER scientists monitor climate chan... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2160 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/43e46ffac4964d92dd8d2f6404eb8b85311cc6cedc06ccbaa02e51c8e5ffbc96.json |
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"Michael Christiansen",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:33 | null | null | McMurdo Station held the third annual International Winter Film Festival in July, drawing a record 41 entries from 21 research stations around the Antarctic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2227.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | At the movies | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Graphic Courtesy: Michael Christiansen The flyer for the McMurdo Station international film festival. The event drew a record 41 entries from 21 research stations around the Antarctic. The annual film festival includes several categories, with the winning entry for Best Film coming from Australia's Davis Station.
At th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2227 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/67fb7ce7be164fe6c1d00cb735a10c5276de7d9df1cd8729211daccbd6ffe65a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:57 | null | null | The average temperature at the South Pole was a bone-chilling minus 47.9 degrees Celsius (minus 54.2 Fahrenheit) in 2009. It was also the warmest year on record since 1957, when temperature records began at the South Pole. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2106.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/AURORASSCOTTTENT1.jpg | en | null | Highs and lows | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Patrick Cullis/Antarctic Photo Library An aurora shimmers above a Scott tent pitched at the South Pole during the 2009 winter. Last year was the warmest on record at the South Pole since measurements began in 1957. This year has also been unseasonably warm, though a cold snap in April took the mercury to ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2106 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/905deeec9c33d3a68f63d354a0016e456e7ec2d38bd83f7f89cd240c0500cd94.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:04 | null | null | What lives in the ocean? That’s the central question of an international project to inventory species diversity and distribution in key marine ecosystems around the world. The data from the census includes information from 25 regions around the world including the Antarctic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2253.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/UNDERWATER.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Steve Clabuesch/Antarctic Photo Library An underwater scene in McMurdo Sound, which is covered by sea ice. A census of marine plant and animal life has tallied more than 8,200 species in the Antarctic. The final report is due out next month.
Roll call Marine census inventories species diversity in key eco... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2253 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9f7eeabb62a6ed4b2c31464f1c9af71caeb9dc572399b2a3fe5ff9e1b760a7d6.json |
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"Marco Tortonese",
"South Pole Research Associate"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:55 | null | null | Most of the big science at the South Pole Station goes on year-round. But other research takes advantage of the darkness of the winter sky and the proximity of the geomagnetic pole. It's up to the South Pole research associates to brave some of the world's coldest temperatures to ensure the instruments work through the... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2462.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/polescience_camera_aurora.jpg | en | null | Winter work order | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Nick Strehl Research associate Marco Tortonese inspects one of the all-sky cameras on the roof of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on July 4, 2011. Only red lights can be used while the cameras are operating. That prevents damage to the very sensitive light detectors in the cameras.
Winter work order... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2462 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7cc8918623513836efbec032ffcc29e5cdedf59e16d64c9cb2109fde16e8f512.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:40 | null | null | Thanks to a rotating contingent of medical personnel from the U.S. Air Force, along with volunteers from the community, McMurdo Station's small clinic can handle big emergencies if the need arises. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2990.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: Jonas Landstrom Dr. Mark Peterson directs the arrival of patients during a mass casualty incident drill at McMurdo Station during the 2013-14 summer season. The station's medical clinic personnel rely on volunteers to help out in the case of large emergencies.
Trauma training
Volunteers supplement McMurdo... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2990 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1be5b21c572288692ff9f899b2143818fc10a17898aa89b623b8d6914636b552.json |
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"Guy Guthridge",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:57 | null | null | Science, long celebrated for its starring role in bringing diplomats to the negotiating table to sign the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, gave an encore performance in 1985. For seven gorgeous days in January that year, an unlikely mix of international lawyers and foreign-service officers from 25 countries left their striped pa... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2323.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: Kristan Hutchison/Antarctic Photo Library A helicopter lands behind the main communications and cooking tents at the Beardmore field camp in the Transantarctic Mountains during the 2003-04 field season. About 25 years ago, the science camp, revived about once a decade, hosted a diplomatic meeting concerni... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2323 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a81d02ca4913128496223958a7660082d5412f680e1090755a3a4f8d97754a02.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:55 | null | null | The online version of The Antarctic Sun is only the latest incarnation of the newspaper whose roots go back to the 1950s. In 1990, the winter-over crew at McMurdo Station documented their lives through a special winter publication, The Antarctic Nite Times. Prepare to go back in time. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2053.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The winter of 1990 | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James Walker/Antarctic Photo Library McMurdo Station during the 2009 winter, when 24-hour darkness blankets much of Antarctica.
The winter of 1990 A look back at McMurdo 20 years ago through The Antarctic Nite Times
The online version of The Antarctic Sun — the U.S. Antarctic Program’s official news sourc... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2053 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7ab4a02b7e101e9a5cbbf289e53a5fe0946dfa18fa4a8c58a17ff34dadbf8440.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:43 | null | null | A 70-million-year-old ammonite that was spotted in about a meter of water only hours before a research expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula was scheduled to end turned out to be a rare find. It may not only be the largest of its kind found in Antarctica, but possibly the first-ever where the jaws of the animal were en... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2492.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/ammonite_joesertich_sm.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Paleontologist Joe Sertich reassembles a giant ammonite at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The specimen may not only be the largest of its kind found in Antarctica, but possibly the first-ever where the jaws (a parrot-like beak) of the animal were encased in the fossil.
Rare find Gia... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2492 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/96defe5a906c8a71d1d681cf7e96c143eea538e9c5fb2aea2b12dcf9c8c03dd4.json |
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"Margaret Adams",
"South Pole Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:36 | null | null | The South Pole International Film Festival lets Polies exercise their creativity in their free time — and document this unique living environment at the same time. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1349.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Pole_aerial.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Emrys Hall/NSF An aerial view of the South Pole Station, site of the fifth annual South Pole International Film Festival. This year's amateur filmmakers spoofed life at the bottom of the world, but also honored the memory of Sir Edmund Hillary.
Spoofing on SPIFF South Pole film festival captures skewed pe... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1349 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b75d81c39f21e32e0669302bef96684621938e5019573a0ee16a5d8120c55a2d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:05 | null | null | The South Pole and McMurdo SuperDARN radars are part of a global network tracking the sun's interaction with the Earth's upper atmosphere to better understand so-called space weather. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4036.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/superdarn-people.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientists Jef Spaleta and Alexander Morris stand near the SuperDARN array at the South Pole Station. The radar is part of a global network tracking the sun's interaction with the Earth's upper atmosphere to better understand so-called space weather.
Global effort
SuperDARN radars in Antarcti... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4036 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7d0f1a4ed492ebbe22921333f9e8e1536d547e2db4289f31bc59093d93c5e62f.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:22 | null | null | Time to get busy. The first flights to McMurdo Station since March are scheduled to arrive this month at the U.S. Antarctic Program’s largest science facility, preparing the way for the 2014-15 austral summer field season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4057.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: Bill Henriksen/Antarctic Photo Library A U.S. Air Force C-17 during a night-vision goggle mission in 2008 to Antarctica. Flights to McMurdo Station will resume this month in preparation for the upcoming 2014-15 field season.
Getting busy
Flights headed to McMurdo Station this month to ready USAP for 2014-... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4057 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/11369ccbe34d288ddf90b896f3432c771811fd271803c5fab3784518d91214d6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:55 | null | null | The Ross Ice Shelf holds back enough ice from entering the ocean to raise sea level by several meters. The weird dynamics of an area called the shear zone has a team of researchers concerned that its potential instability could have long-term repercussions for the Ross Ice Shelf. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4084.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: Jim Lever The Yeti robot tows a radar in a crevassed area of Greenland in March 2014. Yeti and the Cool Robot (not pictured) are headed to the shear zone near the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to map the crevasse field and learn more about the area's long-term stability.
Rough terrain
Robots to help map cr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4084 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dd05554b9e700667442cfac0a1fb9241e9d6812a328ee8c0bc5a657f6e586f9d.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:56 | null | null | The WAIS Divide Ice Core project reached its target bottom depth of about 3,331 meters in January. But the work to reconstruct past climate from the ice is just beginning. The job really starts at the National Ice Core Laboratory where researchers spent the summer processing hundreds of meters of ice for later analysis... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2501.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/waisdivide_satellite_image.jpg | en | null | Getting to the Bottom (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek National Ice Core Lab intern Mick Sternberg measures the final section of ice core from the WAIS Divide project. This summer a team of interns and scientists processed the bottom cores of ice drilled from West Antarctica. The ice will be shipped to labs across the country to analyze.
Getting ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2501 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/69b993c229a23ddc4efde50604a925661f51e3aaec06defd57a3a44fd76e5c2a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:39 | null | null | For the second straight season the scientific program known as ANDRILL enjoyed unprecedented success, extracting a sediment core 1,138.54 meters below the seafloor with a recovery rate of 98 percent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1307.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/andrill penguins.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Cristina Millan/ANDRILL Emperor penguins appear to march in line in front of the ANDRILL camp on the ice shelf. The drill rig is located underneath the white circus-like tent.
That's a wrap ANDRILL hits target depth for second straight year
There’s an old cliché that goes: You don’t know where you’re goin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1307 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/52c27eabf3185a4b83a9fff26368be012767f721ddc7b74b501f3d962d9873e1.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:21 | null | null | A long-term study of the links between climate and marine life along the rapidly warming western Antarctic Peninsula reveals how changes in physical factors such as wind speed and sea-ice cover send ripples through the food web, with impacts on everything from single-celled algae to penguins. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4044.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Winds of change | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jon Brack/Antarctic Photo Library Adélie penguins near Palmer Station off the Antarctic Peninsula. Their populations in the region have fallen by 85 percent since 1974. Recent research has suggested a link between physical oceanic and atmospheric processes and the food web.
Winds of change
Palmer LTER tea... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4044 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/45aa666da7c45aef35e6f68958554e20a0879f57958afb09dfab5eab04070ad4.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:02 | null | null | Polies don’t leave a job undone. Last summer, a few Antarctic veterans installed the crown of the South Pole Station dome in the newly built Seabee Museum in California. But one thing was missing: the iconic American flag that flew from the top for more than three decades. Now the exhibit is complete. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2665.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Finishing the job | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jerry Marty Steve Bruce, left, and Lee Mattis put the American flag in place on the crown of the South Pole dome that was installed in the newly built Seabee Museum last summer. Bruce, Mattis and Jerry Marty returned this past March to install an American flag that once flew at the geographic pole, comple... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2665 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d48875415d0d6eaaa2890c23c46af3002192875f11e11e47da5a49b95988edde.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:45 | null | null | There were hints as early as August. In October, however, the signs that Erebus volcano was waking up in a big way became unmistakable when a broadband seismic station on the flanks of Antarctica’s southernmost active volcano showed a signal akin to a spike on an electrocardiogram chart. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2938.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: Alasdair Turner A plume of smoke trails away from Erebus volcano on Oct. 10, 2013, a day after a major eruption. The active volcano is having a sudden burst of activity on a scale not seen since 1984, according to volcanologist Phil Kyle.
Erebus erupts
Antarctica's famous volcano shows signs of life not s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2938 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2057e5e8b806600f3c57f30a66ffedb683af82ba12891077c6dbd8e70ef3830c.json |
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"Steve Martaindale"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:41 | null | null | A noted ornithologist, William Sladen is at McMurdo Station for the first time since 1970 (though he sailed the Weddell Sea for his 80th birthday) to complete something of a circle in his work with Adélie penguins. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1207.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Sladen and Hillary.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek William J.L. Sladen, right, shows Sir Edmund Hillary where the Everest mountianeer signed Sladen's book while visiting the scientist at Cape Crozier many decades ago. The two octogenarians revisited Ross Island recently, Sladen to help with a documentary and Hillary to celebrate the 50th anni... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1207 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/71a1ac8b88ead0eec60eb8804906629c0f0e5019e31631928f7bc7dbd758fc0b.json |
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"Brett Arenz",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:25 | null | null | A U.S. scientist writes about his red beans-and-toast experiences aboard the HMS Endurance as a guest of the British Antarctic Survey during a science cruise to evaluate historic structures along the Antarctic Peninsula. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1264.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/East Base (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Brett Arenz Built in 1940, East Base is the oldest extant U.S. station in Antarctica. Scientist Brett Arenz travled to the site to study the effects of mold on the historic wooden structures. Cheerio and all that A U.S. scientist joins a British expedition and learns a few things about royalty and rank “C... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1264 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c154eae7fb395298876f179d58fcd44243f1dfbe46b2ed97ddb150626cb45c05.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:58 | null | null | There’s an old saying: You are what you eat. But the krill-based diet of penguins breeding and living on King George Island off the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula first tipped scientists off that food could provide an altogether different insight. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1621.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/copa_colony.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Wayne Trivelpiece An Adélie penguin colony near the Copa field camp on King George Island. The island is also home to gentoo and chinstrap penguins, making it an ideal place to study all three brushtail penguins. The Trivelpieces have more than 30 years of continuous data on the colonies.
Going on a diet ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1621 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9133c09597bc8b4d4ee211909335adf8cb1d81b13911892de28669dd5217315c.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:49 | null | null | A new study has found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier than previously thought coming out of the last ice age. Shrinkage of the vast ice sheet accelerated during eight distinct episodes, causing rapid sea level rise. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3032.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: Janice O'Reilly/Antarctic Photo Library Icebergs drift off the Antarctic Peninsula. A new study found that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet began melting about 5,000 years earlier than previously thought based on debris released by icebergs that was found in sediment cores from the seafloor.
Unstable
Study: A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3032 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4c4e8042752f02d2d7427199a79aed2d1fa01a9883382d7d6f44252e61b2a27f.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:44 | null | null | Remote observatories generating gigabytes of data on the weather from Antarctica’s vast ice sheets. An array of buoys and gliders bobbing and cruising through the Southern Ocean. Satellites using ever more powerful sensors to peer through disintegrating ice shelves. It’s a possible vision of the future offered by a com... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2524.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/CTAM_HASIOTIS_SCENERY12.jpg | en | null | Eye on the Future (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library A geologist hikes up a rock outcrop in the Transantarctic Mountains, a remote region in the world's most isolated continent. A panel of scientists and other experts recently completed a report recommending creation of an observation network in Antarctica, as part of a ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2524 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6068ef33001fc42f294849a0c8690d8f03eae50df3c76ce5afebbf690017e90d.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:29 | null | null | Scientists returned to the skies above Antarctica in October for the second year of NASA’s Operation IceBridge. The airborne mission monitors the region’s changing sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers using radar and other instruments flown aboard a specially outfitted DC-8. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2292.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/icebridge_dca_flight.jpg | en | null | Bridging the gap | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jim Yungel/NASA With the sun on the horizon, NASA's DC-8 flies over Antarctica's Weddell Sea on Oct. 28 during a mission to map sea ice and underfly the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite.
Bridging the gap NASA in second year of airborne campaign to monitor Antarctic ice
Scientists returned to th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2292 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b4a7e2147a3da713bd00a1c53415338cab9cb20667f7c66d307b1e16beffe8c0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:31:02 | null | null | The LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica, project is an interdisciplinary program to study as many facets of an ice shelf ecosystem as possible, from the remaining ice shelf itself to marine sediments piling up on the continental shelf below and from the critters that call the Larsen Embayment home to ocean circulation ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1887.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/larissa_map.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center The front of the Larsen Ice Shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula in March 2002, as tons of ice disintegrated in spectacular fashion. Scientists on the LARISSA project are interested in finding out the conditions that preceded the collapse and what's happened to the ecosyst... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1887 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e5ba6451b8cff7c41426df47adccf3b7e301970934f96c79b53cc79a272a309c.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:43 | null | null | Collecting flowers to determine what bugs might be present would seem to be a pretty straightforward research project. But sampling frost flowers during the spring bloom in Antarctica to study the bacteria that inhabit the delicate ice structures is an altogether different job. Scientists believe the frost flowers are ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2535.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: Shelly Carpenter Dan Mahon, left, and Jeff Bowman haul snow samples from the sea ice on a sled. Conditions on the sea ice limited vehicle traffic, particularly to the ice edge, where the frost flowers grow that Bowman and his team are studying. The ice structures can carry bacteria far into the continenta... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2535 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/71b8910941f39b06d01cc83e79d1ee82ea8d9124be2c57ec98ca50577f15415f.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:03 | null | null | Eight years ago, when paleobotanists Edith and Tom Taylor and their team were last in the central Transantarctic Mountains searching for fossils, foul weather and mechanical difficulties with the helicopters kept them more often than not in the camp. In the field season just ended, the Taylors packed it in a couple of ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2412.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/ctam_plants_Escapa_on_Graphite_Peak.jpg | en | null | Turning over an old leaf | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ignacio Escapa A petrified fossil tree trunk sits in the foreground on Fremouw Peak in the central Transantarctic Mountains, as the members of the Taylor paleobotany team prepare to return to the CTAM field camp. The scientists are interested in flora that thrived during the Triassic and Permian, more tha... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2412 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dd8b76152b0416fd8e19b868d256a36e5511d7de22fa65ad960e333cfc6d8ed5.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:47 | null | null | Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix Cluster with the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope and other observatories may force astronomers to rethink how these colossal struc... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2722.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/SPT_1_21_12a.jpg | en | null | Cluster of discoveries | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Mallon III/Antaractic Photo Library The South Pole Telescope (SPT) in January 2012. Observations with the SPT have found a galaxy cluster that produces stars at a prodigious rate never before detected. The object also is the most powerful producer of X-rays of any known cluster and among the most mas... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2722 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/21f31663fa2d4879fc14f56c85c5e4c1494472faff9bbd1623f3d505a4d1e2e0.json |
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