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Stressed Out Fish?
Science / The Biological World
Monday January 07, 2019

Climate change is expected to be stressful on fish species worldwide: as the climate warms, so too will the oceans, putting a strain on creatures that depend on consistent water temperatures....

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50 Years Of Weddell Seals
Science / The Biological World
Friday December 21, 2018

For a half a century, generations of researchers have studied various aspects of the life cycle of generations of Weddell seals around Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, making them some of the most closely...

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New Ocean Floats Deepen a Carbon-Cycle Mystery
Science / Oceans and Atmosphere
Tuesday November 20, 2018

A new network of automated instruments throughout the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, is dramatically changing how scientists view the planet's least understood ocean....

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Science Bouncing Back From a Delayed Start
Features / Operations
Tuesday October 23, 2018

The first planes of the 2018-2019 Summer Season touched down at McMurdo Station's Phoenix Airfield in the afternoon of October 16th after more than two weeks of weather delays, the longest postponement...

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Researchers Release the Highest Resolution Antarctic Map Ever Produced
Science / Earth
Wednesday October 17, 2018

Researchers at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Polar Geospatial Center in September released the biggest and most detailed map of Antarctica ever produced....

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A South Pole Record
Features / People Profiles
Thursday October 11, 2018

The prospect of spending a winter at the desolate South Pole doesn't appeal to many. It's no small feat for the few dozen hearty souls each year who brave the constant below-freezing...

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Mountaineer Geoff Schellens kneels and takes a GPS measurement where the team collected a soil sample, with the Transantarctic Mountains in the background. An Ecosystem Grows in Antarctica
Science / The Biological World
Wednesday August 29, 2018

Antarctica's native microorganisms are a hearty bunch, able to eke out a living on the planet's coldest, highest, driest, windiest and emptiest continent. But the region wasn't always quite as hospitable as it is today.
Communications operator Rebecca Ricards (foreground) calls up field camp information at the MacOps control console. Josh Young looks on. Podcast: MacOps
Features / Operations
Tuesday August 21, 2018

The Antarctic Sun is taking a behind-the-scenes look at the workers and what they do to make science at the bottom of the world possible. This Episode: MacOps. Short for "McMurdo Operations," it's the central communications hub where operators keep tabs on everyone off the station.
Greg Balco, Grant Boeckman and Marie Bergelin operate the ice drill in the Ong Valley. Buried Treasure
Science / Ice and Snow
Thursday July 26, 2018

A team of researchers has brought home samples of some of the oldest ice ever discovered, more than twice as old as most previous samples. In the remote Ong Valley, the team drilled into a bed of ice - that first fell as snow two million years ago, or more.

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