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On any given morning in the Crary Laboratory aquarium room, University of Hawaii PhD Candidate Caitlin Shishido can be found looming over the sea tables, staring intently into one particular aquarium, and shifting her gaze every few moments to record something in her notebook. Shishido is performing

Calving Fronts are Amazing Places The Pine Island Glacier, or PIG, is 68,000 square miles, or roughly the size of Oklahoma. It is Antarctica's leading source of melt water, leading to 0.11 mm per year sea level rise for at least the last 45 years. Pine Island Glacier is also the fastest moving

I touched a glacier for the first time the other day. The river of ice flowing down the slopes of Mt. Erebus and out into McMurdo Sound near Cape Barne is known as the Barne Glacier. Where it runs into the ocean, it's close to 30m/100ft tall and towers in a craggy, fissure-filled wall over our dive

Surveying Thwaites Glacier, Marie Byrdland, Antarctica High, wide, and lonesome. I've heard that used to describe the high plains of Wyoming or eastern Montana, but not the high glaciers of Antarctica, but it's a good description. Thwaites Glacier is an extremely broad and fast moving glacier

The oxygen hypothesis operates on the idea that the maximum size of an animal is related to how much oxygen is available in its environment and how much it uses. The energy that powers all of the reactions and processes that make up an animal ultimately comes from its food source. Most of us

Okay so my friends will say (and I will admit) that I'm not exactly the most touchy-feely guy out there, but today I headed out to Turtle Rock and Hutton Cliffs to get an idea what the team from Montana State University has been up to while doing the Weddell seal census – one of the longest

No it's not Sunday, but since this post is a review of unposted photos and videos of the last week I'm going to call it that again. McMurdo life is nothing if not busy – the population is rapidly moving up to 900 and there are now lines in the cafeteria. Community is ramping up to full speed and

My working hours are pretty evenly divided between diving with the team and running a sea spider physiology experiment in one of the Crary lab's "environmental" rooms. Environmental rooms are small sealed chambers that allow researchers and engineers to conduct experiments and tests under stable