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Tyler is appearing here as my guest writer for this journal entry! My name is Tyler Mackey, and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis. This will be my fourth trip down to the McMurdo Dry Valleys, and I am excited by the scientific program we have

A day off??? This journal is brought to you by… * Mrs. Tara Peeper’s 4th grade students at Crosswind Elementary * Mary Pullen’s 2nd and 3rd grade students at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School * Ms. Norvell’s 2nd grade students at Lakeland Elementary * Gaston Community Center in Memphis, TN *

Scientists have long used models as a way to gain understanding of natural phenomena. As our technology has improved, so have our models. One ingenious tool for modeling objects is the KeckCAVES (Keck Center for Actual Visualization in Earth Sciences). It's a program that creates virtual

Celebrate Antarctica Day and Weddell seals! Join the webinar! Alex Eilers has returned to Antarctica to study Weddell Seals! She and the rest of the research team are hard at work at McMurdo Station. Join her for a PolarConnect Event celebrating Antarctica Day and Weddell seals and learn more

A Weddell Seal’s Teeth! This journal is brought to you by… * Ms. Allen and Ms. Richards 3rd grade classes at Germantown Elementary * Ms. Tony’s 7th grade class at St. Philomena School in Illinois * Crosswind Elementary Students: * Hadyn Gross in 2nd grade * Simone Nguyen in Kindergarten Open wide

We have a new member to our scientific team now, who arrived by helicopter a few days ago. Ian Hawes is an aquatic ecologist from New Zealand that this team has collaborated with many times before. He has extensively studied the underwater communities of the lakes here in the Dry Valleys, but he

Up until about 10 years ago, the only known organisms in the lakes of the Dry Valleys were microbes, like the ones we've been studying. It was thought that the glaciers expand and retreat and wipe the biotic slate clean each time, with only these microbial communities having the time to recolonize

Meet McMurdo: Extreme Recycling [Waste Management Center] At home in Memphis, I have two bins for my waste – one for trash and one for recycling. Every Tuesday, our trash gets picked up, and to be honest, after that, I don’t give it a second thought. Here in McMurdo, it’s a completely different

Meet Roxanne, graduate student researcher ### About YOU #### Where are you from? I was born and raised in sunny San Diego, California. #### Where do you live now? ‘Live’ is a relative term. In the next few years, I plan to bounce around from California to Alaska to New Zealand to Antarctica, and