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Calving of the Larsen Ice Shelf ###The Larsen Sea The Larson Sea is the site of the calving event 15 years ago that broke off the Larsen B ice shelf, sending it towards its demise to the north. This event got a lot of news coverage so you might remember seeing an image of it. Now, the area is a

This week, McMurdo Station hosted Secretary of State John Kerry, the highest ranking US official ever to visit the continent. The Secretary's visit was a weather-delayed forty-eight hour whirlwind tour of the Dry Valleys, the Cape Royds Adelie penguin colony, Ernest Shackleton's 1907 supply hut, and

This journal entry was written a number of weeks ago and is only now being posted (Nov. 12). It has been a long few weeks dealing with the loss of Gordon, but I wanted to finally share my thoughts on his passing and the man. On Saturday, October 22nd, after a day in the field with Gordon, Lynn, and

Sixty-five feet (20m) beneath the ice, I'm laying on the bottom of McMurdo Sound holding a magazine-sized piece of plexiglass in my gloved hands, waiting for Dr. Bret Tobalske to touch his forehead. To my left, he's lying prone with his camera lined up and focused on an unsuspecting sea spider. The

To The Divide! After a down day for some repairs to the Airborne Topographic Mapper and staying on the ground to avoid some strong cross winds, our mission today was to measure the ice near the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide, known as WAIS Divide. A divide is a topographic high that separates

Steven Lane stares down the eyepieces of a dissecting microscope as he deftly adjusts small knobs on a desk-top instrument mount to his right. Lane, a graduate student at the University of Montana, is carefully threading the tip of a glass oxygen-measuring electrode inside the detached leg of a sea

November 8 is election day in the US, so how do US citizens in Antarctica vote? While McMurdo Station has its own Wells-Fargo automated teller machines, post office, and station store, there are no polling stations because US citizens working here don't officially reside in Antarctica. Instead

Get Me Some Getz! A visit to the most dynamic part of the Getz Ice Shelf brought us to some ice terrain that was heavily crevassed. This flight line allowed us to see the front of the shelf where it met the water – gorgeous! We were also treated to some really pretty sea past the calving front. We

In less than two months I will be leaving for Antarctica. Before I leave I want to provide a few journal entries with a little bit of background information about tardigrades. To start things off here is some general information and a few pictures. ##First Encounters I don't remember how I first