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1/23/2009
As the U.S. research vessel Laurence M. Gould laid anchor off Antarctica, a team of scientists held its own presidential inaugural celebration on Jan. 20. The scientists dubbed their temporary study area "Ocean Station Obama."
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1/21/2009
For the last 50 years, much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to the rest of the world. In fact, the warming in West Antarctica is greater than the cooling in East Antarctica, meaning that on average the continent has gotten warmer.
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1/8/2009
NSF and NASA have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that will one day enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.
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1/7/2009
NSF's High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) will cover more than 24,000 miles in a series of five flights over three years to sample the atmosphere.
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1/6/2009
"Watching the drill going down the hole and then coming up to deliver ice to the core handlers is like a flawlessly executed ballet dance with everyone and every part of the system working in concert." -- Julie Palais, NSF glaciology program officer.
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12/24/2008
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program--a joint endeavor of NASA, NSF and the Smithsonian Institution--has again deployed to Antarctica. The team is sending short dispatches from its field camp as work progresses.
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12/23/2008
The Artist in Residence program offers professional writers, composers, musicians, two and three-dimensional visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, and artisans an opportunity to pursue their art at Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
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12/23/2008
Through the NSF-funded PolarTREC program, Wood, from Talbert Middle School in Huntington Beach, Calif. is part of a team from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology working at the volcano's summit. Read his journals.
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12/22/2008
NSF's Office of Polar Programs has signed cooperative agreements that create two new entities to support, advise and conduct ice coring and drilling used in polar research.
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12/19/2008
The U.S. will host the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Baltimore, MD in April. The annual diplomatic event will include nearly 400 diplomats as well as Antarctic program managers and logistics experts and scientists from 47 countries.
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