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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:46 | null | null | The U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) will begin monitoring human impacts on the environment around its coastal research station off the Antarctic Peninsula, expanding a program that first began at McMurdo Station about 15 years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4054.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/enviro-monitoring-grab.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andrew Klein A Smith-McIntyre grab sampler, a device with two sides that when it hits the bottom snaps together to form a bucket, is lowered into the water to scoop up samples from the seafloor. Scientists are beginning a monitoring program around Palmer Station to track pollutants.
Pristine protection
US... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4054 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a95ffa55d603637ab4b745e3594ac22bfba238183b4e434b3b8122bade92936c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:09 | null | null | Scientists have known that lakes exist beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets since the late 1960s, but only more recently have glaciologists like Slawek Tulaczyk discovered that the subglacial waterworks appears to play a key role in ice sheet dynamics. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1726.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: Saffia Hossainzadeh Slawek Tulaczyk and British colleague John Woodward set up a GPS station on the Whillans Ice Stream to help study subglacial lakes that regularly drain and fill, a process that appears to speed ice flow.
Subglacial waterworks Lakes under ice streams appear to speed ice flow as they dra... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1726 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/afb5fcdd503d77bf833a2624c191be5406fe4918258bea20763308383d9465c6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:04 | null | null | Antarctica New Zealand will tap into the naturally blustery conditions around Ross Island to help power its research station and the U.S. Antarctic Program’s McMurdo Station. The U.S. and New Zealand Antarctic programs will collaborate on a proof-of-concept wind farm beginning this season. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1527.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 Illustration: Meridian Energy Limited In this photo illustration, three wind turbines overlook New Zealand's Scott Base. The proof-of-concept project will begin this season, with completion slated for 2010. McMurdo will get about 15 percent of its annual electricity from wind.
Wind power USAP, New Zealand team up... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1527 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8e546a5816354e8352503f16c89be700770620a12b0c939a646d3c6250ed72d8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:55 | null | null | Dozens of artists and writers, from painters and poets to filmmakers and photographers, have visited Antarctica over the years at the invitation of the National Science Foundation to offer their own interpretations of the white continent. But it’s safe to say that no one has done a marionette puppet production about An... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2205.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Pulling the strings | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jessica Grindstaff Musician and marionette artist Erik Sanko records the sounds of penguins in Antarctica. Sanko and his wife Jessica Grindstaff, co-founders of Phantom Limb Company, went down to the Ice to research and collect material for a marionette play about Ernest Shackleton.
Pulling the strings Th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2205 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c9a73f80430d32a46c9a2aba1170f229b680ee49a6007576c34ba2e0a01ca93e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:15 | null | null | The 2013 winter – the months of June, July and August – will already go down as the warmest such season at the South Pole since records began in 1957. That trend continued into September – now the warmest on record – with four new daily maximum record temperatures falling in the middle of the month. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2911.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/CeremonialPole_HDR_Sept03.jpg | en | null | Sizzling September | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Marie McLane The South Pole Station in September 2013, when a bevy of new weather records was set for the month, including a new one-day record high and new average high for September.
Sizzling September
More weather records fall as South Pole emerges from long winter
Another month at the South Pole. Anot... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2911 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1bc347447ff4948fd4a0109efec414b20d6bfc42b05def3c72228d0fc42fbcfb.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:19 | null | null | Are the McMurdo Dry Valleys melting? It may seem like a strange question to ask about one of Antarctica's few relatively ice-free. However, ice buried just below the dark sediment surface is rapidly disintegrating
disintegration of dirt-and-ice-mixed cliffs and river banks in valleys where the ice has been buried unpe... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4120.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/dry-valleys-levy-simonson.jpg | en | null | Scanning the Horizon (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NCALM Personnel with the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping install the laser-mapping instrument in a Twin Otter aircraft. The LiDAR was used to make high-resolution maps of the McMurdo Dry Valleys to understand landscape changes since 2001.
Scanning the horizon
LiDAR survey of McMurdo Dry Valleys... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4120 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/08a7c9e48bcc896d26a4f6a7eae84995cc56bafbc5ae3f62d2d2aeb27f7fb5fb.json |
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"Elaine Hood"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:24 | null | null | How does weather forecasting in Iraq prepare a person for work in the U.S. Antarctic Program? The only difference, according to meteorologist Mike Carmody, between a remote outpost in Iraq and a field camp in Antarctica is temperature. And maybe a few improvised explosive devices. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1637.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/WAIS_storm.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Elaine Hood Mike Carmody conducts a field meteorology class for Glenn Helkenn and Jonathan Hayden, from left, in September in Denver before they head south to Antarctica. A meteorologist for the USAP, Carmody also goes behind enemies lines as a Reservist to assess environmental conditions for military ope... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1637 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4167dd4252d8990f211a169a70948452dbc601a202b2604ed6ce982877a25b99.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T12:51:24 | null | null | Completion of the conservation work at Discovery Hut in January marked the conclusion of a decade-long effort to protect three of the first human-built structures in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4128.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/discovery-hut-stove-conservator-peephole.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Lizzie Meek, program manager of artifacts for the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, checks a database that tracks the exact location of each item in Discovery Hut. Return of about 500 artifacts in January completed a decade-long effort to restore three historic huts in Antarctica.
Project... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4128 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9ca2801e86eb21fc91c7d47566282f42ad88d55e9a7d305b14568d45dea55b53.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:30 | null | null | Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia have teamed up to explore one of the last relatively uncharted areas of East Antarctica, an expanse that may prove to be the soft underbelly an ice sheet once thought inviolate from climate change. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1678.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/blankenship_overhead.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Don Blankenship/UTIG A ski-equipped Twin Otter flies over a field camp in West Antarctica during an aerogeophysical survey of two fast-moving glaciers during the 2004-05 field season. ICECAP scientists have outfitted a larger aircraft with similar instruments to survey a vast area of East Antarctica beg... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1678 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/3538fcf632e5b81c42fbca07b70586642de273d7e40349303119b9feb001b156.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:10 | null | null | Working behind the scenes to ensure safe travel to and from Antarctica is a team of air traffic controllers and meteorologists who feed updates on weather and other conditions to the pilots flying missions around the white continent. And those jobs are increasingly being done not on the Ice but back in the United State... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1551.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/firstplane08.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Anthony "Antz" Powell The first flight of the 2008-09 summer field season in early September appears above the Transantarctic Mountains. Air traffic and meteorological support for air operations in Antarctica are increasingly being done from off the Ice in the United States.
Flight following Air traffic c... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1551 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/4750e3530de6661eed354842074e46af399151ce09100fdc9760b74dee13e019.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:15 | null | null | A team with the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project deployed last year to continue an effort to understand the dynamics of the ice above a subglacial lake where researchers found life. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4060.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/wissard-first-borehole.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chad Carpenter/WISSARD The WISSARD drill operations in West Antarctica during the 2014-15 summer. The team drilled four boreholes about 700 meters into the ice and deployed instruments to learn more about the unusual movements of the Whillans Ice Stream.
Roving around
Team uses drill platform to install i... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4060 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5d0abd4ac137eb13133a5f443a2ac9e864136433ffa93d081fd66121ad30a4ad.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:55 | null | null | A team of scientists and drilling engineers performed the Antarctic equivalent of pulling a rabbit out of the hat deep under the ice sheet. They reentered a 3,405-meter-deep borehole and collected ice along a parallel vertical path. It is the first time anyone has recovered a replicate ice core in this manner. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2788.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/wais-deviatioon-down-hole2.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Image from the borehole camera at the WAIS Divide field camp in West Antarctica. The first deviation for replicate coring can be seen in the top center of the image. Scientists are collecting ice parallel to the main hole to study abrupt climate change events.
Copy that
WAIS D... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2788 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0a78e30dac91d3350156cc5d69ea76155d9c5860386e4e8a4628217092d47918.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:40 | null | null | Scientists conducting a “dress rehearsal” for deployment of an instrument through an ice shelf into the ocean below learned quite a bit about the system during a weeklong field test in Antarctica — making polar history and an unexpected discovery along the way. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2001.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/bight_profiler.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Alberto Behar A science field camp at Windless Bight, with smoking Mount Erebus in the background. A small team of researchers spent a week at the camp to deploy an instrument through a 200-meter-long hole in the ice shelf to prepare for a larger project in the future.
Dress rehearsal Fieldwork to prepare... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2001 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5857627c865f24cd54d16770fd2915215b8437b52dbb0a1d526fb91e325713dc.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:55 | null | null | It's not easy forecasting the weather in Antarctica. But thanks to the efforts from a group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that job has grown easier over the last 30 years. Matthew Lazzara thinks it can get even better. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2031.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/weather_tower.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Matthew Lazzara Matthew Lazzara, left, adjusts a wind vane on an automatic weather station (AWS) at the WAIS Divide field camp in West Antarctica, while Charles Bentley looks on. Lazzara is the principal investigator for the AWS program and Antarctic Meteorological Center at the University of Wisconsin-... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2031 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/75d7da57ef19be11d5b2af7aff48801456d859df68a3c57963453e12b8a0c45c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:39 | null | null | Stephen Pekar, a geologist at Queens College in New York, will lead a 15-member team across the sea ice of McMurdo Sound to a site called Offshore New Harbor. The scientists hope to find the best spot to drill for sediments that would have recorded the climatic transition of Antarctica from a greenhouse to an icehouse ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1555.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/andrill_mapoffshore.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Stephen Pekar Scientists conduct a seismic survey on the sea ice covering McMurdo Sound during the 2005-06 field season. The survey images sediments below the seafloor, helping researchers target the area for sediment-core drilling. Stephen Pekar's team will use similar methods this year at New Harbor.
... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1555 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b826921a8ba80def2f7cada49181358f1d5c0e7a42362723449da10cccccdc42.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:22 | null | null | Mummified seals in the McMurdo Dry Valleys seem at best an odd curiosity. One team of researchers is using the ancient remains to learn about the changes in the ecology of the species and changes in the ecosystem by sampling DNA and other materials. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2987.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/mummy-seals-team-glacier.jpg | en | null | Valley of the Dead ... Seals (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Paul Koch Scientist Brenda Hall and undergraduate Jill Pelto, both from the University of Maine, prepare to sample a seal mummy that is being deformed and moved within the moraine of the Wright Lower Glacier. Scientists collected samples from hundreds of mummified seals in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to lea... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2987 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2b988f9fe4fc2f955b92da7624027732430d67513d43b38db67f264005a9c54c.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:24 | null | null | Talk about a super mom. Researchers involved in a long-term population study of Weddell seals near the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station recently reported that it had found a 29-year-old mother that had given birth to her 20th pup. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2762.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/seal-old-mom.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jason Jones/Weddell Seal Science blog
Maternal milestone
29-year-old Weddell seal gives birth to 20th pup
Talk about a super mom. Researchers involved in a long-term population study of Weddell seals near the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station recently reported that it had found a 29-year-old mother... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2762 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/49105c799ea215e94b969278289671aea367f55b2149186e5a759476e4f69e83.json |
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"Emily Stone",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:27 | null | null | If you happen upon the small wooden hut that sits at Cape Royds and wriggle yourself underneath, you’ll find a surprise stashed in the foot and a half of space beneath the floorboards — two cases of Scotch whiskey left behind 100 years ago by Sir Ernest Shackleton. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1983.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ROYDSINSIDE4.jpg | en | null | History on ice | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mike Usher/Antarctic Photo Library Ernest Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds, home to an Adélie penguin colony, is undergoing extensive work by the Antarctic Heritage Trust to restore the historic hut to its original condition of a century ago. Conservators plan to recover two cases of Scotch whiskey frozen t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1983 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/48379bb98b6158a131fc41335fbceda68d3e6f437246ffd81c6a734e903eec9d.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:33 | null | null | Researchers have documented the first signs of significant permafrost melt in Antarctica from a small valley where an exposed cliff face contains ice from the last ice age. The cause? Not heat but increased solar radiation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2876.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images4/garwood-valley-erosion-graphic1.jpg | en | null | Seeing the light | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jim O'Connor/USGS A cliff section of ancient ice capped by layers of sediment in Garwood Valley. The ground ice, or permafrost, is showing signs of rapid slumping due to increased radiation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Seeing the light
Rapid permafrost melting in Dry Valleys due to increased solar radiatio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2876 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6dc84aa41d7ddcdc82cccf570d073b3f5d3ce1da0fac13f880052b12c15efed1.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:31 | null | null | The 2012-2013 Antarctic research season began Monday, Oct. 1st, 2012. A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster and an Australian Airbus-319 transported cargo and 130 U.S. Antarctic Program participants from Christchurch, New Zealand to McMurdo Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2748.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images3/2748-PassengerTrailer-Sm.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Bobby Werner 2012-13 research season begins First planes bring 130 scientists and support personnel on Oct. 1 The 2012-2013 Antarctic research season began Monday, Oct. 1st, 2012. A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster and an Australian Airbus-319 transported cargo and 130 U.S. Antarctic Program participants f... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2748 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/452a44718517d2a6dd9b064d0ae8423dec033a02045d7c5a69d7be8292fc695e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:14 | null | null | An aerial sweep of the sea ice that fills McMurdo Sound reveals a few small, snow-streaked islands. And then there are the telephone poles, vehicle trailer and Jamesway building sitting half-buried in snow. How the McMurdo Station ice pier ended up there is an easy question to answer. The more difficult problem is gett... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2548.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 Kevin Pettway, lead environmental specialist at McMurdo Station, at left, shovels out a truck trailer on the McMurdo Station ice pier that broke away in a late summer storm and then froze in the sea ice during the winter. At right are environmental technicians Nate Williams and Corey Chan.
Wi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2548 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e2a450f14f60696d85d08e20d7d5870334c291581574db5478169d963301ec3c.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:08 | null | null | Life on Earth hit a particularly rough patch about 250 million years ago, when most organisms perished in a mass extinction event. Some vertebrate species may have escaped to the relatively mild climate of Antarctica, scientists have recently suggested. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2026.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/refuge_vert.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Cara Fritz Christian Sidor collects fossils in the Allan Hills in 2005, where he and fellow scientists discovered the first 245-million-year-old fossilized burrows — some of the first such finds in Antarctica. He recently co-authored a paper that suggests Antarctica served as a climate refuge during a mas... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2026 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d09179e56864167e0d952728b922ff95ff758bd19902ace14c616f5c0f9530c6.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:29 | null | null | Today the McMurdo Dry Valleys are a unique geographic feature in Antarctica, lowland regions away from the coast with no ice cover. However, unusual mineral mounds discovered along the Transantarctic Mountains indicates that there may have once been more places like them elsewhere on the continent. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4184.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/sulfate-survey.jpg | en | null | The Lost Dry Valleys of the Polar Plateau | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Tao Sun Scientists survey unusual sulfate formations near a small pond by the Lewis Cliff Ice Tongue.
The Lost Dry Valleys of the Polar Plateau
Today the McMurdo Dry Valleys are a unique geographic feature in Antarctica, lowland regions away from the coast with no ice cover. However, new research indicate... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4184 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8777d1c83639cef2aab32fa9937c55c2ef52a6b5fd8f754ce0d2d0bc159677d7.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:39 | null | null | It seems that research into Antarctic penguins and viruses has gone, well, viral. National Science Foundation-funded researchers recently reported finding a novel papillomavirus among Adélie penguins, joining another group last month that announced a new strain of avian flu among the iconic birds. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3030.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 Researcher Arvind Varsani walks among the Adélie penguins at Cape Crozier, where he and colleagues found a novel papillomavirus. Scientists are concerned that more viruses will emerge among wildlife populations with climate change.
Infectious research
Virus found among Adélie penguin populati... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3030 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a8aab5f19839204d228654758f93d9122a7905f6cdbf08782cfaccac57750b60.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:05 | null | null | It seemed unlikely too many marine organisms could make a living under the dark shadow of an ice shelf, with the ice some 200 meters thick in spots. But when a newly developed robot penetrated the deep ocean below, it found a surprising amount of life. SCINI is already changing what we know about McMurdo Sound. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1779.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/scini_critter2.jpg | en | null | SCINI in the Sound | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Stacy Kim Bob Zook, left, and Francois Cazenave prepare to launch SCINI into McMurdo Sound. The remotely operated vehicle is skinny and light enough to be deployed easily with only a couple of people. The three-year test project ends in 2009-10.
SCINI in the Sound Robot offers new views of marine enviro... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1779 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dbf3a9170fb6618d9be2605a9749357ddaa9cff2b65e2dddb7cbcb1207586e63.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:35 | null | null | Virtually unknown outside the world of academia and polar adventurers, the Transantarctic Mountains bisect the continent of Antarctica for 2,400 kilometers. Few people are as intimately knowledgeable about Antarctica’s great mountain range as geologist Edmund Stump, who has written a book about the region's early exped... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2549.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/CTAM_CAMP_HELO_FLYOVER.jpg | en | null | Roof over Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mugs Stump Geologist Edmund Stump climbs a rock face in the Transantarctic Mountains. Stump has conducted research in Antarctica's great mountain range over the last 40 years. He recently published a book about the early exploration of the Transantarctics.
Roof over Antarctica New book chronicles early ex... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2549 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/44d0d3171cf01c85471858b4488acb7efef41902b3e8e00e4902a0590dca3395.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:44 | null | null | History is full of tales about boom towns that went bust. Such was the fate of Marble Point, a helicopter refueling station that as early as the 1960s was a serious contender for becoming the main research station in the U.S. Antarctic Program. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4146.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/marble-point-cairn-geo-marker.jpg | en | null | What Could Have Been (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Six fuel tanks used to refuel helicopters are the main reason that Marble Point exists today. However, at one time, it almost replaced McMurdo Station as the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program.
What could have been
Marble Point refueling station once considered as alternative to McMurdo Statio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4146 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0fcfd033972cace4bec4aa484a771af2dd657b99d560bd9eea6db24f807a7a72.json |
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"Sara Rimer",
"Devin Hahn",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:43 | null | null | For more than a quarter-century, David Marchant, a Boston University professor, has been exploring the Transantarctic Mountains, methodically piecing together the story of the landscape and past climate change and what it has to tell us about the future of our warming planet. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4136.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/dry-valleys6.jpg | en | null | Search for Ancient Ice (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: David Marchant Graduate student Sean Mackay points out an area of interest in Beacon Valley on the four-meter-tall video wall in Boston University's Digital Image Analysis Lab. The imagery helps scientists pinpoint where they will conduct fieldwork in Antarctica to search for buried ice that is millions o... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4136 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c49f69da8387554358b1ae847e532b9d837869e8ca1ed8495ceb75ef0a026d77.json |
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"John Henzell",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:50 | null | null | McChord Air Force Base pilot Lt. Col. Greg Pyke has flown countless trips to Antarctica, but nothing prepared him for the honor of carrying Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary on what is expected to be the 87-year-old adventurer's final trip to Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1215.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/hillary in cockpit (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Henzell Sir Edmund Hillary (left) sits in the cockpit of a C-17 aircraft with aircraft commander Lt. Col. Greg Pyke and co-pilot Lt. Col. Lane Seaholm (obscured). Hillary came to Antarctica last week to observe the 50th anniversary of the founding of New Zealand’s Scott Base.
Air Force gets thrill fr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1215 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e38b3b6d9d4521b0cc37c170f7491c34d5476dee6bfb65798cf3238d4954157b.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:12 | null | null | New research out of the Georgia Institute of Technology offers an explanation as to why sea ice in Antarctica is growing while it continues to shrink in the Arctic. The scientists also suggest the opposing polar trends may soon end. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2258.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robyn Waserman/Antarctic Photo Library A channel of broken ice cuts through the sea ice in McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea. Antarctic sea ice has increased about a quarter-of-a-million square kilometers for the past 30 years. That trend may soon end.
Maximum extent Growth trend of Antarctic sea ice could re... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2258 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/35267eb5ba4761b38c18f0c796c060c04bdf65a0f261640ac471ba32252ca593.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:20 | null | null | Adélie penguins across parts of the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula don’t appear to be getting a balanced diet these days. What’s missing? A sardine-sized fish called Pleuragramma antarcticum, more commonly referred to as the Antarctic silverfish. A team of scientists recently investigated the mystery. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2192.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: Erica Hudson The crew of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer prepares to deploy a net off the stern of the ship. The net is used to capture silverfish, an important species in the Antarctic food web that appears to be vanishing along parts of the peninsula.
Fishy business Climate change may be to blam... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2192 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/5f42a7e01192d03f95dccd99645b366868d4f78e23c4c46f32973ffc59accd7a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:40 | null | null | It’s taken a bit of magic — not to mention an incredible effort by scientists, engineers and support personnel — but the WISSARD project is poised to explore one of the last frontiers on the planet, a lake trapped nearly a kilometer below Antarctica's massive ice sheet. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2765.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: Saffia Hossainzadeh Scientist Slawek Tulaczyk, left, and British colleague John Woodward set up a GPS station on the Whillans Ice Stream during previous fieldwork. The WISSARD project team will begin a two-year study of the lake that exists below the ice stream in 2012-13.
Magical realism
WISSARD project ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2765 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/813077cd2f67a6ce35070fc97640b442f0b5d5f31a75728a0d6d3e9ec586a1d1.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:42 | null | null | At the South Pole, liquid helium has been used since the 1980s to super-cool special telescopes designed to peer into the mysteries of the early universe. Over the last decade, station personnel helped develop a system to conserve the limited resource, though the era of liquid helium may be coming to an end. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2691.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Full of Cold Air (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Paul Sullivan A 4,000-gallon helium dewar is unloaded from an LC-130 at the South Pole Station. Such shipments may soon cease as experiments move away from using liquid helium to cool telescope sensors.
Full of cold air South Pole Station makes the most of liquid helium supply
Helium isn’t just good for p... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2691 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ff4efe9e62b36f4bd96d6b15cce0b5e4edbf4b0c6540d4a00318a33111489e11.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:27 | null | null | This year’s mission for the South Pole Traverse team was to re-establish the 1,600-kilometer-long route between McMurdo and South Pole stations, conducting maintenance along the way. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1361.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-pdf.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Heavy equipment operator Dale Hill readies a traverse tractor for leaving the South Pole on Jan. 13. The logistics traverse made a 3,200-kilometer round trip between the Pole and McMurdo during the 2007-08 austral summer season.
Ready to roll South Pole Traverse re-establishes 1,600-kilometer... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1361 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bfa8ac31bdbf424fd0703971c2dc2f4cb87907d036411fc72a92aa0dfb3ffb14.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:34 | null | null | Nearly a third of the ice in West Antarctica drains through the Pine Island Glacier area. Were it to all pour out in a catastrophic uncorking, sea level would rise more than a meter. It's an inhospitable place, but scientists led by Robert Bindschadler of NASA plan to go there anyway to learn more about Antarctica's mo... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1828.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/pig_aws.jpg | en | null | Pine Island Glacier | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: David Holland David Holland sets up the power system for an automatic weather station near Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica during the 2007-08 field season. The AWS has returned important data that will help the scientists plan the next phase of their project to study the interaction between the g... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1828 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8b7d5d364313a3a9b72bdb908aed0cdf467985142caa2e4a497e476518c78393.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:41 | null | null | It was one of the great rivalries of the 20th century, a sort of heavyweight matchup of the day’s great polar explorers: Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott. The Race to the South Pole is now a major exhibit at New York's American Museum of Natural History. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2289.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Race to the End (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Denis Finnin/AMNH Entrance to the Race to the End of the Earth exhibit at New York's American Museum of Natural History. The exhibit portrays the spirited competition between polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott to be the first at the South Pole.
Race to the end AMNH showcases famous competi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2289 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d93a980d354a13927dcff608f7175c123624c902576c14d0f59bab1b8940ecad.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:23 | null | null | The central Transantarctic Mountains field camp may have been the busiest place south of McMurdo Station during the 2010-11 field season. Scores of scientists made their way through the camp over the two months that it operated, keeping the support staff bustling to ensure the researchers made the most of their time in... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2400.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/ctam_camp_herc_takeoff2.JPG | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek CTAM field camp manager Julie Grundberg was in charge of a mini airfield during the 2010-11 season, including LC-130 airplanes that carried passengers, fuel and cargo.
Mountain life CTAM camp staff works behind the scenes to support science
The central Transantarctic Mountains field camp may ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2400 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/71b8832f10092516cac0464deda81ff4636ea5fcfa553687928faab04d110a64.json |
[
"Jeffrey Donenfeld",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:37 | null | null | As tradition dictates, on New Year’s Day the geographic South Pole marker was moved to its freshly surveyed position, and the new brass-and-copper plaque that tops the marker was revealed. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2790.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/pole-marker-top-closeup.jpg | en | null | Return to tradition | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Jeffrey Donenfeld The 2013 geographic South Pole marker was installed on Jan. 1. This year's version was created by science machinist Derek Aboltins during the 2012 winter.
Return to tradition
2013 geographic South Pole marker sports classic style
As tradition dictates, on New Year’s Day the geographic So... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2790 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2c4b0c31531148c3cf35323768375a08649296a204758ff01435b2dd75eafddb.json |
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"Ernie Gray",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:10 | null | null | Although 21st century technology has diminished the need and requirement of ham radio, the popularity, goals and achievements of the Amateur Radio Service has not diminished. The excitement of hearing people from the outside world never gets old, and the interest in obtaining a license and joining in the fun led eight ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2287.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/HAMRADIO1956.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Ernie Gray Eight South Pole winter-over personnel take an exam to join the ranks of the Amateur Radio Service. It required "bending" a few rules normally applied to the process to make the test happen in the middle of the Antarctic winter.
Dialed in Winter-over Polies join community of ham radio enthusias... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2287 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/40e01e47192fc621e6c14188c60bbf1a0285e3c1a36ef441df3d3899737a7e68.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:11 | null | null | The thousand-mile haul between the U.S. Antarctic Program research stations at McMurdo and South Pole is already a reality. Now the USAP is looking to use its re-discovered traverse capabilities on new missions across the continent | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1856.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/TRAVERSEFUELBLADDER.jpg | en | null | Traverse on track | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Paul Thur/Antarctic Photo Library The South Pole Traverse crosses the polar plateau in December 2008. Using tractors and sleds to transport material and fuel overland has returned in full force, with the NSF purchasing an entire second train of vehicles and equipment with stimulus money.
Traverse on track... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1856 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/48bec6880f186e75a9949579f2e80b7889248d3465c810ddad6e05cddfdc1dbc.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:35 | null | null | In a region famously isolated from the rest of the planet, there are plenty of hard-to-reach places in the Antarctic, such as crevassed and thinning ice shelves or glaciers squeezing through mountain peaks. And then there are the really remote places to visit, like the Amundsen Sea polynya, where scientists are interes... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2308.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Aspiring for Knowledge (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Rob Sherrell A scientist deploys Rob Sherrell's trace metal water pump system off the Swedish icebreaker Oden during a previous visit to the Amundsen Sea. Researchers say a polynya in the ocean, an open area in the sea ice, is unusually productive biologically. They will spend three weeks in the region th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2308 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e0949ecb1409a9ba754b84bf4fda265bef54929cf62c2e0f8bea424348ce3c85.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:51 | null | null | A celebration of the achievements of the past and the promises of the future received a warm reception in a very cold place this week, as the National Science Foundation hosted Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2554.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/pole_norwegian_ceremony_pm_small.jpg | en | null | South Pole Anniversary (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg addresses a crowd of people from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, along with numerous visitors who arrived by Dec. 14 to celebrate the achievements of Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who led the first successful expedition to the South Pole 100 years ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2554 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c18f87138ae68e3f1438a694d68ad6c356bfd062c7265a610ca1a96641c282b9.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:07 | null | null | A telescope launched 35 kilometers into the stratosphere above Antarctica had a singular mission: to detect the impossibly faint signal from when the universe expanded faster than the speed of light, a theory known as cosmological inflation. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4142.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/spider-main.jpg | en | null | A sticky problem | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Scientist Natalie Gandilo from the University of Toronto installs one of the star cameras that help SPIDER determine its location while floating above Antarctica. The instrument was launched in January and took data for 16 days.
A sticky problem
SPIDER seeks clues to the enigma of how the uni... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4142 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2fb152d1ca94ab8701d3e699a1fe00a210c0775e5ee2d86c56e7ffb65428f7f0.json |
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"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:08 | null | null | Scientists are increasingly finding sea snails with abrasions all over their tiny spiral shells, but these scuffs aren’t just wear and tear. They’re ominous signs that a foundational link in the Southern Ocean’s food chain could be facing an existential crisis in waters that are becoming increasingly acidic. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4207.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/seasnail-2.jpg | en | null | The Dissolving Sentinels of the Southern Ocean | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | The Dissolving Sentinels of the Southern Ocean
Scientists are increasingly finding sea snails with abrasions all over their tiny spiral shells, but these scuffs aren’t just wear and tear. They’re ominous signs that a foundational link in the Southern Ocean’s food chain could be facing an existential crisis in waters th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4207 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cd7f01c4b23eb18a18f160d4035bc960b698cdd7c650dfa7d3ff6a0b2a5250b6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:28 | null | null | The story of how three little penguin species are coping with significant changes in climate around the Antarctic Peninsula has followed a familiar narrative in recent years. A new study suggests the bigger regional picture involves many factors outside of the classic sea ice hypothesis. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2598.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/oceanites_forrest.jpg | en | null | The Big Picture (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: ©Thomas Mueller Steve Forrest of the Oceanites/Antarctic Site Inventory team conducts a census on a subcolony of chinstrap penguins at Baily Head, Deception Island. Baily Head is home to the largest congregation of chinstraps in the world, but their numbers appear to be in steep decline.
The big picture B... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2598 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f8ede6c2e7c07ac9e9406ff40f8739030981a712d1fb178e1a5636b61e3c97a7.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:01 | null | null | Lasers aren’t just for evil geniuses in spoof movies who want to outfit sharks with the latest in weapon technology. Scientists are using fiber-optic and laser technology to make precise temperature measurements in places as diverse as Lake Tahoe the arid soils in Nevada. Now add Antarctica to the list. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2565.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: Vicki Beaver Victor Zagorodnov, left, empties snow out of the drill used to core through the ice shelf at Windless Bight, while David Holland prepares for the next flight. The researchers deployed a distributed temperature sensing system to make sustained ocean temperature measurements underneath the ice.... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2565 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/514c3c43c6597ef1da1616e47dd42ec6e3aa6d98396c5df8dff7d6594e512710.json |
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"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:29 | null | null | National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra — in the form of fossilized plants and insects — on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop millions of years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1510.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 In December 2006, Allan Ashworth picks through a pile of shale looking for fossils and other evidence of a tundra environment that he and others believe disappeared in the McMurdo Dry Valleys about 14 million years ago. Their findings were recently published in the Proceedings of the National... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1510 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/14e2ad159c3f837f7c5ba1077f957f488fecf7603cd58ff6320570f6a5e79e27.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:49 | null | null | A week before world leaders sat down for a major climate conference in Copenhagen this month, an international scientific body released the first comprehensive report on the current state of Antarctica’s climate and its relationship to the rest of the globe. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1991.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | State of the Antarctic | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dan Dixon/ITASE Scientists on Paul Mayewski's research team handles a recently drilled ice core from Antarctica. Ice cores are one of the key tools scientists use to study past climate. Much longer cores have shown that CO2 levels today are the highest in the last 800,000 years.
State of the Antarctic New... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1991 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/1249ba33fe8295e29bdfd5239385f5330b198dd0d03f04bb20886a74e252c1dd.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:35 | null | null | There are few places in Antarctica as heavily researched as the McMurdo Dry Valleys, which is home to unique ecosystems that range from the saltiest lake on Earth to a microhabitat of ancient microbes that live under a glacier. It now boasts the most comprehensive environmental management plan yet to ensure all of its ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2505.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/DRYVALLEYSCAMP.jpg | en | null | Planning for the Future (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library Scientists conduct research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the largest ice-free region in Antarctica. The site receives environmental protection under the Antarctic Specially Managed Area designation. The ASMA plan was recently revised.
Planning for the future Revised pol... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2505 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/da9cf28fe9dcf982118b2c2cb98b9fd0c0d9a85ba01c2be9fd490c2bd2ad45a6.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:21 | null | null | In Antarctica, where the weight of its mighty ice sheets have squashed the earth’s crust below, Terry Wilson and an international team of scientists are studying a phenomenon called post-glacial rebound. The work is part of an ambitious project, called POLENET, which will help put some real numbers to sea level rise. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1453.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/polenet_tents.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Mike Willis Scientists install a POLENET station on Howard Nunatak in West Antarctica in January 2008. The sites include GPS and/or seismic instruments that provide data about the bedrock below the ice sheets. Solar panels are used in the summer for power, while batteries keep the instruments running in t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1453 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d3099530aff3ddc813379d37d77a6ee27bda225e3624b8b9ec60e4cdef6cd08f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:21 | null | null | One doesn’t have to go to the library to read the stories that shaped Antarctica. A different sort of narrative can be found on the covers of postal envelopes, many stamped with imagery from different expeditions or military-sponsored operations. The canceled marks pinpoint not just a date in time but also a moment in ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2277.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Stamp on History (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A cover from the second Byrd expedition in 1933-35 in Scott Smith's collection. It is one of the more common covers from the earlier days of polar philately.
Stamp on history Significant events in Antarctica reflected in polar philately
Dozens of books have been written about the history of A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2277 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2112e5dba6b2271e1bf670bab26c5a883dc3051d6926c93cc2239b3db59d7cfe.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:24:27 | null | null | Researchers have identified more than 60 species of fungi from an ice cave near the top of Mount Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica. The find demonstrates the hardiness of organisms to survive in extreme environments, and the potential for human contamination in even the most pristine places. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2862.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Fungi Erupt on Erebus (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Hubert Staudigel Researcher Hubert Staudigel takes temperature measurements in Wormhole Tongue ice cave on Mount Erebus. Staudigel and colleague Laurie Connell recently published findings that showed a fungal community in nearby Warren Cave contained species linked to humans.
Fungi erupt on Erebus
Disco... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2862 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6f9722c1bf5c48ff07af196e8e21c07ac620d3d79b8737d4886ab93e0f695874.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:37 | null | null | After 25 years of conducting research in the Antarctic, glaciologist Robert Bindschadler finally got his wish — a true color map of the continent that offers unparalleled details of its features. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is the first major, tangible product to emerge from the International Polar Ye... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1301.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/LIMA mosaic.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: NASA A collage of images from LIMA, generated by NASA. The LIMA mosaic is the first major product to emerge from the International Polar Year. It offers a true color map of the continent at the highest resolution currently possible. It will be used for research as well as for planning expeditions and for ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1301 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e206b38c9ab84d286cd6ea535cba1cd9add4df4dd0059d77d25a94fad1a64773.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:21 | null | null | The ability for Weddell seals to return to the same breathing hole from more than a kilometer away caught the attention of researchers who are investigating whether the seals employ a magnetic sense to navigate under sea ice. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4102.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/seal-hole-vdr-pondering-fuiman.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Magnetic personality?
Scientists investigate how Weddell seals navigate under sea ice
Weddell seals spend much of their lives swimming and hunting for prey underneath Antarctic sea ice. These marine mammals – capable of diving down hundreds of meters in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean for nearly an hour at a ti... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4102 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/79a6a4b3b87262da9fea588a1b5acd241af4196d419b7f848b3e31c9dfc12357.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:53 | null | null | The devastating earthquakes that struck New Zealand and Japan earlier this year demonstrated that scientists still have much to learn about these catastrophic events. The NSF responded to the need of collecting data that could be applied to better disaster response in the future by funding 42 RAPID grants for a total o... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2537.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Shifting through the pieces | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: New Zealand Defence Force Image from Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K Orion that conducted aerial surveys of areas affected by the Feb. 22 earthquake in Christchurch. NSF funded about a dozen grants after the earthquake so that data collected could be applied to better disaster response in the future.
Shi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2537 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/86dc07d261aff0deb14e4a7a9ba963fea4e7bd92f5c9fad62e0e66141db1043d.json |
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"The National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:35 | null | null | Analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive detector deployed deep within the ice sheet under the South Pole Station, recently provided new insight into one of the most enduring mysteries in physics, the production of cosmic rays. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2647.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/ICECUBE_ICL_DARKSECTOR.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek/Antarctic Photo Library IceCube technicians lower a cable with digital optical modules into the ice at the South Pole Station during the final year of construction in December 2010. Data from the massive neutrino detector suggest gamma-ray bursts are not a source of the high-energy particles.... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2647 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/20fba29c987ea087b29400a2a78fafc6536c167d836eba202c28e615b1331de7.json |
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"Richard Jeong",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:15 | null | null | McMurdo Station is busier than Grand Central Station during the austral summer, when hundreds of scientists pass through the hub of the U.S. Antarctic Program for research on everything from penguins to paleontology. The winter is a different story. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2883.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 SuperDARN (Super Dual Auroral Radar Network) near McMurdo Station is a radar array that monitors the highest layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is one of a dozen or so experiments that runs through the winter at McMurdo.
Night shift
McMurdo science takes on different look during the winter
... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2883 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a0e961b78f70356655f5e3b1cd004192614c7fdb58a8f12ee91f4ea2efe641de.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:17:03 | null | null | And then there was one. Last year, the U.S. Antarctic Program disassembled the iconic Dome Station after it had far outlived its shelf life. This austral summer, the original station, built in little more than a month by a handful of U.S. Navy Seabees for the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, was demolished fo... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2368.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Blast to the Past (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Andy Martinez Keith Frazer, assistant explosive handler, John Rand, consultant engineer for CRREL and Jason Dietz, general assistant, from left, use a hotwater drill system to make a hole in the snow above Old Pole so explosives can be lowered down. The area above the first South Pole Station had become u... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2368 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/0c68088c4ca407c3aa845b1f1853cf1c7aa01a9ceeb7c68cedc8034899e3a86b.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:10 | null | null | Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet, tipping the scales at the equivalent of 800 trillion suns, and holding hundreds of galaxies. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2283.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/cluster_image1.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Daniel Luong-Van/Antarctic Photo Library Red lights illuminate the South Pole Telescope during the 2010 winter. Researchers using the telescope have found the most massive galaxy cluster to date, tipping the scales at 800 trillion suns.
Heavyweight discovery South Pole Telescope finds most massive galaxy ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2283 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/55d7ae76d320a14f91bd62d3170580e352d25ba333d6b2966db7e4df32160732.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:06 | null | null | Four former U.S. Navy service members recently received recognition in the role they played nearly 35 years ago in the recovery of more than 250 bodies from a plane crash into the side of a volcano in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3018.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images5/erebus-medal-nz.jpg | en | null | Heroism not forgotten | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Chris Dean/Antarctic Photo Library An aerial view of Erebus volcano crater, where in 1979 a tourist flight from New Zealand crashed, killing all 257 people on board. Four former U.S. service members were recently honored for their role in the recovery effort.
Heroism not forgotten
Additional U.S. personne... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=3018 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/dcd44a3b57cd367b95be5e16bfc49d6626cb612a126fed964ab9749b1e4432d6.json |
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"Steven Profaizer"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:30 | null | null | Sridhar Anandakrishnan led a science team to the South Pole this season to learn more about a subglacial lake that rests about 16 kilometers away from the U.S. Antarctic Program station. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1246.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/pole lake sled (top image).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Sridhar Anandakrishnan Two researchers run the hot water drill used to obtain a seismic profile of a subglacial lake near the South Pole. The tripod is the tower for the hose and the sled on the left is the water heater. The sled to the right holds the snow melt.
Team probes buried Antarctic lake
Scientis... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=1246 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/074e6c7c7d73ee5ebdfa04f611b3dfd3b202a56459ea291b64fb3161e191559a.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:58 | null | null | Nearly two years after NASA scientists discovered a huge crack across the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, an iceberg bigger than the city of Chicago calved off into the Amundsen Sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2872.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: German Aerospace Center (DLR) A German satellite captures an image on July 8 of an iceberg forming to the left of Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf. While the calving event is considered a natural phenomenon, the glacier upstream that feeds into the ice shelf is one of the fastest moving in Antarctica, contri... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2872 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d391a0ef8fc00511ff9e42d07aea57dabf3fac4bf3e8561ffc1836868a65192f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:32:41 | null | null | The San Francisco-based science museum Exploratorium is bringing polar research in the Arctic and Antarctic to a laptop or home computer near you with live interviews and reports from the field. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1451.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/explo_chico.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Exploratorium Mary Miller, seated, interviews penguin biologist David Ainley, seen on monitor behind her, during a live Exploratorium Webcast with McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Miller is the principal investigator on an International Polar Year Project called Ice Stories, which brings live interviews and r... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1451 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/98df4344372c67a1ce3676ac3b0bcae3340d600506063eababe56a38b50bdb77.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:22:33 | null | null | The most ambitious and extensive network of seismographs ever deployed on an ice shelf promises to reveal new information about two very different subjects. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4106.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images6/Doug-Bloomquist-the-seismic-sensor.jpg | en | null | Two for One (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Doug Wiens Scientists and engineers install a seismic station on the Ross Ice Shelf by snowmobile. This season they installed the most extensive network of seismographs ever deployed on an ice shelf to study wave interactions and the deep earth below.
Two for one
Pair of projects examine Ross Ice Shelf ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=4106 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b9c333c997d11252be7c7b1970cb1eb1eb806201b1f329ac7bf758bd8da11257.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:26:34 | null | null | The world’s oceans play a huge role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But that service comes at a price: The oceans are projected to become more acidic over the next century. The cold polar oceans would be the first to acidify. Three projects funded by the National Science Foundation are studying this pr... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2631.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | The world’s oceans play a huge role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, especially as human emissions of the greenhouse gas continue to rise. But that service comes at a price: The oceans are projected to become more acidic over the next century.
As CO2 dissolves in the water, it lowers the pH, which shrin... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2631 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c905732644595d7ff56c465ead45f3894d014f0a0f32140252c5191ac228cfaa.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:27 | null | null | Microbiologist Jill Mikucki first saw a photo of Blood Falls during a class for her master’s degree at Portland State University. It immediately captivated her. Now she and her U.S. and German colleagues are preparing to delve even further into the mysteries underneath the red-stained glacier. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2982.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-globe.gif | en | null | The Next Step (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Video Information In the time-lapse video above, scientists and engineers test the IceMole drill at Canada Glacier in Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys. The maneuverable drill, designed and built by German engineers at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, is capable of boring into ice and making turns within the ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2982 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/d5361745e97f2254b3d09fb0a984ec2e299af5ebae305746b6af70c3742e4235.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:11 | null | null | Ellen Mosley-Thompson helped pioneer ice core research beginning in the 1970s, when she and her colleague, Lonnie Thompson, discovered that dust particles could tell scientists much about past climate. At age 60, she's planning her first ocean-going expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1481.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/science/images/dome(1).jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: John Perry/Antarctic Photo Library Navy Seabees constructed the South Pole Dome Station in the 1970s, during which time a 100-meter-long ice core was extracted from the site. Researcher Ellen Mosley-Thompson used the core to reconstruct a 900-year climate record, using the dust content and isotope analysi... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1481 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/03b55f810aded4cb6b9ca3455a465fdefeb3b784ed273f2d935f7d68a04fc337.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:33 | null | null | It hasn’t been a good year for climate scientists. It started in November 2009 with the illegal release of thousands of e-mails and other documents from that climate-change critics seized upon as proof that global warming was a conspiracy. For researchers involved in the U.S. Antarctic Program, the recent backlash agai... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2284.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Winter of discontent | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Palmer Station personnel navigate a Zodiac through the nearby islands and icebergs around the Antarctic Peninsula, which is one of the fastest warming regions on the planet. Most scientists believe humans are to blame for climate changes here and elsewhere.
Winter of discontent USAP researche... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2284 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a1854306a1f4b4021cda5965a43ffa9dad8d3aca1707e00d02a526904bb36c66.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:16 | null | null | It only took Clive Oppenheimer about 15 minutes to find a piece of history on the flanks of Antarctica’s southernmost active volcano. The volcanologist used historical photos and journals to find two century-old field camps occupied by a team of British explorers. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2791.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images4/erebus-campsite-stones.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Clive Oppenheimer Members of the Mount Erebus research field team stand on the volcano's summit on Dec. 12, 2012, after reenacting a historic climb. Two century-old campsites used by the expedition were recently found on the volcano.
Repeating history
Scientist discovers century-old campsites on volcano, ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2791 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/9c5df5e1d5922bb00ec2e36bacf23a0287d28bc445468ce8fbf8e3c61885ceb2.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:57 | null | null | The thawing of frozen soil in the Arctic is becoming a familiar story. The picture in the Antarctic is less clear, largely due to the scarcity of monitoring sites until recently. An international effort involving U.S. researchers is now under way to learn more about the characteristics of Antarctic permafrost and its s... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2517.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Hitting the ground | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James Bockheim University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate students Adam Beilke, left, and Kelly Wilhelm drill a shallow borehole at a site known as Old Palmer on an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The researchers are monitoring changes in permafrost.
Hitting the ground International pr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2517 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c129617dd961c19ec3016ca6ff53db2f0896ff9c0eddd824006b992af3f60601.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:19:34 | null | null | Dr. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, the former South Pole physician who was diagnosed with breast cancer during the middle of the Antarctic winter, succumbed to the disease on June 23, 2009. She was 57. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1812.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-pdf.gif | en | null | RIP Dr. Jerri Nielsen | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Graphic: Peter Rejcek
RIP Dr. Jerri Nielsen Former South Pole winter-over doctor who fought
breast cancer dies at age 57
Dr. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, the former South Pole Station physician who was diagnosed with breast cancer during the middle of the Antarctic winter, succumbed to the disease on June 23, 2009. ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1812 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b5458f9b57d096a283c3b89df7c975667dc579dd72735d496f7a45013c6db4e4.json |
[
"Michael Lucibella"
] | 2016-08-26T12:55:16 | null | null | In a show of gastronomic diplomacy, McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s Scott Base swapped chefs for a few afternoons in December, giving the cooks a chance to pick up new tricks and station residents a taste of each other’s culinary culture. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4195.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/rosengarden-allison.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michael Lucibella Chef Keith Garrett from New Zealand's Scott Base Shows McMurdo how to prepare lamington dessert squares.
Baker Swap
In a show of gastronomic diplomacy, McMurdo Station and New Zealand’s Scott Base swapped chefs for a few afternoons in December, giving the cooks a chance to pick up new tr... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4195 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/f787432fa201383ae8575cfc27641b4ca7e29062d686b594eae8780fd52b5ddf.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:25:12 | null | null | New data from the South Pole Telescope indicate that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2737.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/button-top.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Keith Vanderlinde/Antarctic Photo Library Auroras shimmer above the South Pole Telescope during the winter. New data from the experiment indicate that the birth of the first massive galaxies that lit up the early universe was an explosive event, happening faster and ending sooner than suspected. Explosive... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2737 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b8684a1ff35d0bee1dae82cea337b01f5364173a5c85467a6c53f1da48272a18.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:20:13 | null | null | Byrd Polar Research Center is one of the nation's premiere facilities for studying the Antarctic, Arctic and alpine regions of the world. The Antarctic Sun takes a closer look at the center and its faculty in a series of articles. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1428.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/bprc_campus.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Orton Hall on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus houses the Department of Geology, which includes offices for several researchers affiliated with the Byrd Polar Research Center, including Terry Wilson and Larry Krissek. At the forefront Byrd Polar Research Center evolves with... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1428 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/c2a79d292df06eb633e25d0a914a34d7222ab0e43ecc92a4ce5aa7f65f44e429.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:16 | null | null | In the surface waters of the ocean, where microscopic plants called phytoplankton live, the lack of iron limits the productivity of these organisms that form the base of the food web. A team of scientists on a seven-week cruise to the Ross Sea earlier this year investigated at least four sources of the trace element. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2667.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images3/dennis.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Stephanie Hathcock PRISM participants Randy King and Dan Powers prepare to bring the SeaHorse ocean profiler aboard the research vessel NATHANIEL B PALMER during a cruise around the Ross Sea earlier this year. The instrument takes a number of oceanographic measurements. Scientists aboard the ship are stud... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2667 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2d22667685a0b9de12ffc87c2d551cf3de4ba31bc3aa73ca966aada71a736bd5.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:00 | null | null | For some scientists, Antarctica’s ice is the main focus of their research. For others, the continent’s vast cover of frozen water is an obstacle to be overcome, an impediment to the secrets buried below. In the case of a team of researchers hoping to recover sediments tens of millions of years old in the Ross Sea regio... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2469.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/ANDRILLCORETOUR.jpg | en | null | On the Ice Edge (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Frank Rack, ANDRILL Science Management Office, UNL A Caterpillar tractor hauls modules for the ANDRILL field camp from McMurdo Station to the Ross Ice Shelf, where scientists hope to drill through more than 250 meters of ice into the seafloor to access sediments that could reveal what the climate was like... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2469 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ef27b0f1339aedaab5ed7483e77c4e2425230a10e39f9ba8af3d5cfffe66eefd.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:46 | null | null | Scientists have described how a mountain range the size of the European Alps – but buried under Antarctica’s giant ice sheet – came into existence through a process that began a billion years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2546.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/mountains_illustration.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Lamont-Doherty Radar images of the Gamburtsev Mountains, buried deep under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, reveals chiseled peaks, some towering 4,500 feet above deep valleys. New research suggests the process that began to form the subglacial mountain range began a billion years ago.
Mystery solved Mountai... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2546 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/06dd6249ee0b149cfaa7d065da587554cc693ae64b0b88772b4fc76d8813eda8.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:46 | null | null | Halley VI Research Station looks a bit like a giant centipede, its eight segments apparently in frozen stasis on the Brunt Ice Shelf. The design of the space-age-looking Antarctic base is the brainchild of Hugh Broughton Architects, which is part of a new project for an atmospheric laboratory at the National Science Fo... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2948.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Location, location ... relocation | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James Morris/Hugh Broughton Architects The new British Halley VI Research Station looks a bit like a giant centipede. It was completed in 2012 after four years of construction. The company that designed the station is involved in a project to build a new atmospheric research lab in Greenland for the Natio... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2948 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/ec3197d0ec162236cdc48299820b0a84877db2be04db78bc6e7aba4e9ff92126.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:39 | null | null | The recent discovery off the coast of Greenland of the remains of the SS Terra Nova, the ship that carried Briton Robert F. Scott and his team to Antarctica in 1910, generated headlines around the world. It also perpetuated a little factual inaccuracy. Here's the rest of the story. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2738.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Rest of the story | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James Flynn/USCG The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Atak in 1942. The converted trawler was the ship that came to the rescue of the SS TERRA NOVA on Sept. 13, 1943. Earlier reports had said a former polar icebreaker had rescued the TERRA NOVA crew when news broke earlier this year that the famous ship had been f... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2738 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a4831d447f2402a06515454ba1ea7a31ab43315abf27b58d81eace34fd5cc1eb.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:40 | null | null | Larissa Min’s family is originally from Korea. She was born in Brazil. At age 12, her family migrated from South America to the United States. The creative writer naturally tackles themes of identity and displacement. Her next continental shift will take place in Antarctica. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2826.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Developing new perspectives | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Devin Castendyk Artist Larissa Min assists with an experiment in the McMurdo Dry Valleys during her visit to Antarctica in 2012-13. Her project proposes to tell a story that merges nonfictional Antarctica with a fictional narrative of a girl living in the Amazon.
Developing new perspectives
Writer tackles... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2826 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2aeb92e4e2bfdc09c1b1b2c3b8988ce6e831ad5503b62cd91cc1023ec5b407c9.json |
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"Bill Spindler",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:40 | null | null | A unique gathering of polar veterans recently met for the eighth annual Polar Technology Conference. The conference brings together engineers and polar scientists to exchange information on the latest research needs and technology solutions that have been successful in polar environments. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2649.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/untitled-event---2878.jpg | en | null | Latest and greatest | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Michelle Brown A field camp is set up to work on an automated geophysical observatory (AGO) in East Antarctica. The space weather station, with its communication and power requirements, was a topic of conversation at the annual Polar Technology Conference.
Latest and greatest Polar Technology Conference s... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2649 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/49fa25c9b283c97a484c0f0e81cecad9df0e7ac29d987d5bf58191e871b760d6.json |
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"Lyra Pierroti",
"Special To The"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:46 | null | null | After more than two years since launching the SuperTIGER Long Duration Balloon, a joint team of scientists, mountaineers and support personnel finally recovered the buried instrument from a remote spot in the middle of Antarctica earlier this year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4155.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/supertiger-plane-tent-lyra.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: James King The SuperTIGER recovery team loads a section of the instrument onto an airplane. The balloon-borne instrument landed in a remote part of Antarctica after a record-setting trip high above the continent.
Remote recovery
Team ventures to hinterland of Antarctica to retrieve SuperTIGER instrument
A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4155 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/93cd32b5639f61ba67cb8276d6907a38d9462d0b78b04da1db08aec5b4136dc0.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:58 | null | null | Those who knew Capt. Pieter J. Lenie – the scientists who depended on him to reach the unreachable and the crew that depended upon him for their lives – the long-serving master of the research vessel Hero was, well, a hero. His death at age 91 marks the end of an era. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D4150.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images6/capt-lenie-vertical.jpg | en | null | Passing of a Legend (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Miguel L. Brand-Wiener/Antarctic Journal Capt. Pieter Lenie views ice conditions after the research vessel HERO met impenetrable ice on Dec. 3, 1977 at the entrance to Arthur Harbor on the first trip of the season to Palmer Station. Lenie passed away at age 91 on March 1, 2015. He served as master of the ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=4150 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/7e64c4e30688364fa3e0886a247c57fbd3f9d1df01370690057d34fcfd0d33ee.json |
[
"Steve Martaindale"
] | 2016-08-26T13:21:35 | null | null | A small team of men was deposited at the South Pole in the early morning hours of Nov. 20, 1956, charged with the task of building a permanent research station. Barely 45 days later, on Jan. 4, 1957, the last of the 24 men returned to McMurdo Station, leaving behind a functioning facility in the hands of those who woul... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1214.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/features/images/Seabees in galley (top image).jpg | en | null | Pole turns 50 | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Dick Prescott U.S. Navy Seabees in the South Pole galley in 1956. Left to right are Nolan, Williamson, Randall, Wagner and Bowers.
Pole turns 50
Station celebrates birthday on Jan. 4 after Navy Seabees finish oasis in middle of polar desert
A mere 20 days after it was demonstrated that an airplane could l... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1214 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/de22f1521b5725d2fd27978f5e2e1c5fafcffc012a950e9c858b5ae7973ad391.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:28:51 | null | null | Researchers and technicians from around the country, including young scientists working on their doctorates, spent part of their summer at the National Ice Core Lab in Denver helping to measure, catalog and cut pieces of an ice core drilled in West Antarctica that scientists will use to understand both past and future ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2233.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/waiscpl_tommy.jpg | en | null | On the Line (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Science technician Tommy Cox measures a section of the WAIS Divide ice core as it begins its journey down the core processing line at the National Ice Core Lab near Denver. The technicians will cut the ice so it can be sent to labs around the country for anlaysis.
On the line Researchers spen... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2233 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/e51f9122d9242cc927f24891ca69d3278482991465e476590a6826325b2ebebd.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:31 | null | null | The term “now we’re cooking with gas” takes on a different meaning atop Taylor Glacier, where scientists are extracting and melting big ice cores to measure ancient concentrations of methane. Understanding the source of the greenhouse gas will offer clues about abrupt climate changes in the past. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D3015.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Cooking with Gas (page 1) | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek IDDO driller Mike Jayred measures an ice core atop of Taylor Glacier during the 2013-14 summer field season. Scientists need large ice cores to extract enough ancient methane for analyses that will pinpoint the source of the greenhouse gas, offering clues to how the Earth responded to abrupt ... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=3015 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/2fd78c4055557b4ccafbebe2d2ca1e5bfe1e3fc5e4558a864aa28c7a83d38577.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:43 | null | null | Paleontologists working on a high peak in the central Transantarctic Mountains have recovered more than half of the fossils belonging to the first dinosaur found in Antarctica – 20 years after its initial discovery. And the unearthing of yet two new Early Jurassic dinosaur species this season promises to keep scientist... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2407.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/ctam_dino_bigtent.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter J. Makovicky A helicopter approaches the landing zone on Mount Kitkpatrick in the central Transantarctic Mountains where paleontologists recovered dinosaur fossils. Mount Falla is in the background. Given the location, all equipment, people, and rocks had to be trasnported by helicopter.
Return of t... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2407 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/aab7f9da452e267ee31f6a80190ce49ba0d4a34768a5c8fce4435d8f842c3a72.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:58 | null | null | Racing against the wind is never a good bet in Antarctica. But for a team with NASA doing a major upgrade to a 10-meter antenna housed in a golf ball-shaped dome, the gamble paid off. The refurbished NASA McMurdo Ground Station started receiving its first data for a new international collaboration earlier this year. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2392.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/radome_pedestal.jpg | en | null | Getting a lift | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek A crane lifts a part of the antenna pedestal into the air for placement into the uncorked radome at right. The operation to do a major upgrade and refurbishment to the NASA ground station required calm winds because of the danger that an item dangling from the crane could become airborne.
Get... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2392 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/fac34de3b621eb74848e59f423bed7fa01c42f5699c837a85520ef2bf542287f.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:26:12 | null | null | The International Polar Year resulted in astounding discoveries and built new observation networks in the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet. But perhaps one its most enduring legacies won’t be found in a journal or dataset: The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists has grown into a major force in... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2681.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: José Xavier José Xavier, left, and student José Seco at Hannah Point on Livingston Island off the Antarctic Peninsula study gentoo penguins during the 2011-12 field season. Xavier is one of the founding members of APECS, an organization dedicated to helping early-career polar scientists.
Getting started A... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2681 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cda318be06feea0fe3fdf71a17d848d09abc99b653d9663f158ee0b8d60bf391.json |
[
"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:27:46 | null | null | A team of seasoned geologists braved hurricane-force winds in the central mountain range of Antarctica to learn more about the continent's ancient landscape, which they believe might have influenced its climate hundreds of millions of years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2415.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/ctam_tectonic_elliot.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: David Elliot Scientists John Isbell, Danielle Sieger and Zelenda Koch, left to right, work on the stratigraphy from the Permian era on Mount Bowers in the Transantarctic Mountains. The researchers are interested in understanding the evolution of the landscape, and its influence on climate.
Tectonic evolut... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2415 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/67d0f86e8bfd4064e32e53aa65ba15e734268efae79ba1196b460f97a6a09ea8.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:52 | null | null | The radio station at McMurdo got a makeover during the 2011-12 season, updating to a fancy new digital-analog radio station system. But the set-up includes a couple of turntables for the station's rare vinyl collection, which some say includes records from Vietnam once spun by famous Army DJ Adrian Cronauer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2604.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/radio_ralph_records.jpg | en | null | Turn up the volume | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Peter Rejcek Volunteer DJ Tristan Eames of New Hampshire queues up a song on the new McMurdo radio station software, which includes thousands of songs from country to rock. Defense Media Activity upgraded the radio station this season, but included a pair of turntables for the station's unique vinyl recor... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2604 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/a0d09a0432785e88b62f08e765f9d31b11be2a6e5c4ee5862e13ca83a1afed5f.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:37 | null | null | One of the iconic images that has survived from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration shows Norwegian Roald Amundsen and three members of his party gazing sublimely upon a small tent pitched at the South Pole. A century later, the search to locate the artifact of polar history, now buried deep under the ice sheet, co... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2551.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/tent_amundsen_mugshot.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Polar explorer Roald Amundsen and three members of his South Pole party look upon the Norwegian flag that flies from the pole on Polheim, the tent erected and left by the team to mark their successful journey to the bottom of the world. The location of the tent has intrigued many over the last 100 years.
Seeking shelte... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2551 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8ca4c70851f076958586bb187fc09fae3a23d59b1032a4d54ba00a0c4fc16b55.json |
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"National Science Foundation"
] | 2016-08-26T13:23:10 | null | null | National Science Foundation-funded researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, while using a camera-equipped robot to survey the area under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, unexpectedly discovered a new species of small sea anemones that were burrowed into the ice, their tentacles protruding into the frigid water ... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2972.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images5/sea-anemone-ross-ice-shelf.jpg | en | null | On the flip side | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sea anemones hang out on the bottom of the Ross Ice Shelf. The new species was discovered in 2010 by researchers using a camera-equipped robot to survey the ice shelf for a project to drill into the seafloor below.
On the flip side
New species of sea anemone found underneath... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2972 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/751bc63b99e12b9f552946351ddae52e62de0fe4a959c82bb59e4d9c7b147593.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:17:44 | null | null | Two Basler BT-67 aircraft landed at the South Pole Station on Oct. 17, ending about eight months of winter isolation for 49 scientists and support personnel at the U.S. Antarctic Program's southernmost research base. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2533.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images2/pole_basler_fueling.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Schwarz
New arrivals Basler aircraft land at Pole, first planes since February
Two Basler BT-67 aircraft landed at the U.S. Antarctic Program's southernmost research base on Oct. 17 (local time), ending about eight months of winter isolation for 49 scientists and support personnel. Above, one of th... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2533 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/bca08c8050dd85f6393b8fc5de880a71fb6685de021328ec789f34a1d5683c68.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:18:22 | null | null | Historic interest in the world’s coldest continent often focuses on the great polar explorers of the past. Earlier this year, a nearly forgotten footnote in Antarctic history got a permanent page in the record books with the dedication of a bronze plaque commemorating the first and only nuclear power plant to operate o... | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2175.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: U.S. Army The nuclear power plant on Observation Hill overlooking McMurdo Station, circa 1965. The plant was part of a military experiment to construct mobile nuclear power plants at remote places.
Powerful reminder Plaque dedicated to former McMurdo nuclear plant marks significant moment in Antarctic his... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2175 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/b5bc9b8c1a07d735e24c57f721f16fb4fa8cacd9a62fe76e6fdd75e14bfbee6e.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:29:06 | null | null | Scientists plan to go to the literal edge of Antarctica in hopes of learning more about its climactic past, long before ice sheets covered 98 percent of the continent’s surface. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2092.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Frank Rack The ANDRILL drill site on the McMurdo Ice Shelf during the 2006-07 field season. This year the team will head to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf to determine the feasibility for setting up a similar operation to drill into seafloor sediments that date back millions of years.
Moving target ANDR... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=2092 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/cded976ae5e7a461a8a327c4774b9a4974bd11650df0c3711ef783d21b577b99.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:31:50 | null | null | About a quarter of a billion years ago, the most severe extinction event in the planet’s history wiped out just about every form of life on Earth. Why? That’s the big question that spurred Matthew Saltzman and colleagues to go to the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica to find the answer. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1511.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images/extinct_ridge.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Courtesy: Matthew Saltzman A ridge in the Transantarctic Mountains where the Permian-Triassic extinction boundary is evident. Matthew Saltzman and colleagues spent five weeks in the region collecting samples to see if they can find clues as to what caused a mass extinction 250 million years ago.
The Great Dying S... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1511 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/17d3a5bd7121d46777f77e81ebb2ff3aa689370cbe0c0811388c093f75268ed1.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:50 | null | null | Who needs outer space when you have the South Pole? Not Robert Schwarz. His aspirations to be an astronaut never quite worked out. But he’s spent more time at the bottom of the Earth than any human has orbiting the planet. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D2642.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images3/schwarz.jpg | en | null | The Ice Man | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Robert Schwarz South Pole winter-over Robert Schwarz stands within the SPUD telescope ground shield (the telescope's five detectors are behind him) just before the 2012 sunset. The South Pole Station can be seen in the background. Schwarz is on his eighth winter at the South Pole.
The Ice Man Schwarz sett... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=2642 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/6403e2efac9ed93dbd49112fed0ee91a81eb9b0b6de35d55fdc40ec8200fbdda.json |
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"Peter Rejcek"
] | 2016-08-26T13:19:35 | null | null | More than 250 people labor at the South Pole each austral summer, supporting and conducting a dizzying array of scientific research. But scientists aren’t the only ones attracted to the Pole. A handful of tourists venture south each year, and the number, while modest, has quadrupled in the last five years. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Ffeatures%2FcontentHandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1594.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/features/images/FEB08AERIALSCOT11.jpg | en | null | The Antarctic Sun: News about Antarctica | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Scot Jackson/Antarctic Photo Library An aerial view of the South Pole Station from January 2008, when most tourists visit 90 degrees south. The number of tourists to the South Pole has quadrupled in the last five years, leaving the USAP weighing alternatives on how to handle the influx.
Tourism influx Ste... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1594 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/04df265448dea15a0aeabea4dfd45bb89929608747d716bcc41273b61ddfd4e6.json |
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"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-26T13:30:06 | null | null | Two National Science Foundation experiments at the South Pole will be featured in a live Webcast as part of a special event marking the 2009 Year of Astronomy. | http%3A%2F%2Fantarcticsun.usap.gov%2Fscience%2Fcontenthandler.cfm%3Fid%3D1737.json | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/antarcticsun/media/grafx/icon-flag.gif | en | null | Spotlight on astronomy | null | null | antarcticsun.usap.gov | Photo Credit: Keith Vanderlinde/Antarctic Photo Library The IceCube neutrino detector laboratory collects the data from the strings of detectors buried in the ice below the South Pole. Winter-over scientists with IceCube and the South Pole Telescope will take part in a 24-hour Webcast in celebration of astronomy around... | http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1737 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | antarcticsun.usap.gov/8c6e1020de93cd63cfc977816b4483cbc8adf6ce4ab7d92f34b042310d69c12d.json |
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