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Most of us are familiar with Neutrons, the neutral particle that often resides in the nucleus of atoms. Those are the particles that the CosRay neutron detectors are investigating. They are liberated from nuclei during collisions with cosmic rays (see my [previous journal](https://www.polartrec.com

Hull Glacier-2 and the Getz Ice Sheet What is inside the plane is just as amazing as what is outside the plane. The phrase NASA uses is “the most sophisticated suite of instruments ever assembled”. The scientists and engineers working onboard are just as impressive as the landscape and instruments

Foraminifera are protists and can be found all over the world in both fresh water (a very few) and marine waters, primarily living in the seafloor sediments. You've encountered them often though you may have never known it since they are single-cellular and are generally smaller than 1mm. This group

Training is one of those things, just when you think you've completed it all, it turns out there's some more. I returned to the classroom yet again for training on sea ice safety since I will soon be heading out to the dive shacks and meeting up with teams that are working out on the sea ice

Sea Ice on the Weddell Sea Today we are traveling to the Weddell Sea to study the extent and thickness of the sea ice. This is of special interest to Nathan Katz, our mission scientist who started studying sea ice with his advisor in graduate school. While their original work was focused on

Finding common ground between 24 nations and the European Union in designating the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) was no easy task, and the final compromise took five years to reach. For a single country, establishing MPAs inside territorial waters is a matter of passing internal legislation

On October 28th, the 24 member countries that make up the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR - pronounced "CAM-ler") voted to protect an expansive portion of the Southern Ocean known as the Ross Sea for the next 35 years. The agreement will prevent the

Its been a few days since the announcement of Gordon Hamilton's accident on Saturday, October 22nd and the team has slowly come to grips with this new unpleasant reality. The team has supported each other fully, the staff

Flying Off the Map Mission control: "Data - Are we going to fly off the map today?" We've all found ourselves without a map when we need one, but this is different. We headed to the South Pole today to run a baseline flight of highest priority. This is a first trip to the pole for the year and the

On October 24th, the date of the last sunset, at a ceremony on the viewing deck of McMurdo Station's administrative building, representatives of the National Science Foundation hoisted flags of twelve nations on twelve separate flagpoles. Significantly, these twelve nations - Argentina, Australia