Without Pier
Features / Operations
Friday December 02, 2011
An aerial sweep of the sea ice that fills McMurdo Sound reveals a few small, snow-streaked islands. And then there are the telephone poles, vehicle trailer and Jamesway building sitting half-buried in snow. How the McMurdo Station ice pier ended up there is an easy question to answer. The more difficult problem is getting all that stuff off the ice-locked pier before it floats out to sea.

Subra Suresh on the Ice
Features / Life on the Ice
Friday December 02, 2011
Subra Suresh, the director of the National Science Foundation, visited U.S. Antarctic Program stations and field camps during a five-day visit in November, accompanied by the heads of some of the nation's leading science agencies.