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In her 2015 book Spineless: Portraits of Marine Invertebrates, the Backbone of Life, photographer Susan Middleton succeeded in presenting dozens of marine invertebrates the way they're seen in their world: from eye level. Most famous

This is an audio journal from David Thesenga. David describes the team's first day of field work out on the Shear Zone.

After two weeks at McMurdo Station, I've got the essential lay of the land down but I'm constantly discovering nooks and crannies with interesting things to offer. A couple of these revelations came this week inside my own dormitory, a nondescript three story building unassumingly named "Dormitory

The light comes from everywhere and nowhere. You're not in a cloud, it's more like you're in a space with no borders, but there is an indeterminate depth - dimensionless dimensions. The intersection between sky and snow - a faint changing of color, tracks disappearing, shadows coming and going. It

This is an audio journal from David Thesenga. David describes leaving McMurdo Station, heading across the sea ice, making it onto the ice shelf, and setting up camp in the Shear Zone.

Toto - I don't think we're in Antarctica anymore I woke up around 0730 and felt my stomach rumble. I walked to my kitchen and quickly realized that Mike, Ralph and Andy were not in my kitchen cooking bacon and

Scientific scuba diving is defined by US law as a special type of underwater work that supports scientific research. It is specifically set apart from recreational (aka, pleasure) diving and commercial diving (think underwater construction tasks, like welding). It allows researchers with the proper

Prefield Call Yesterday I had a pre-field call with the team of people who are helping me get to the pole. We talked about everything from what to pack, to internet connectivity in Antarctica, to where I’m staying when. Here are a few highlights of what I can expect: * **At the South Pole

After two weeks in Antarctica, the enormous and rotund Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) is the first warm-blooded animal we've encountered. With the approaching southern hemisphere summer, their numbers seem to be multiplying rapidly. Looking out onto the sea ice from the Crary Lab, more and