McMurdo Station Antarctica

Landscapes of Exploration at the Peninsula Arts Gallery Landscapes of Exploration is being held in the Peninsula Arts Gallery – within the University’s Roland Levinsky Building – and draws together for the first time the works of 10 visual artists, one musician and three writers who undertook residencies in the Antarctic between 2001 and 2009. They were all working alongside scientists based on the continent under the auspices of the British Antarctic Survey, in a project funded by Arts...Read Full Story

Vostok is the largest of several bodies of water buried under the Antarctic ice Related Stories Antarctic lake bid edges closer Antarctic lake mission gets ready Race to drill hidden polar lake It is not yet clear whether Russian scientists have succeeded in their quest to drill into Lake Vostok. National media on Monday reported a breakthrough into the lake, the largest of more than 300 bodies of liquid water buried under Antarctica's ice. But Valery Lukin, the Russian...Read Full Story

On January 23, I joined seven other members of a joint U.S.-Russian Federation team that departed Christchurch, New Zealand, for the United States' McMurdo Station in Antarctica to conduct inspections of facilities maintained by other nations in Antarctica. Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest, and most isolated continent on Earth. Despite these challenging conditions, there are more than 100 facilities of various sizes and capacities in Antarctica established by almost 30 Antarctic...Read Full Story

Researchers at the University of Delaware are examining tiny worms that inhabit the frigid sea off Antarctica to learn not only how these organisms adapt to the severe cold, but how they will survive as ocean temperatures increase. The National Science Foundation study, led by Adam Marsh, associate professor of marine biosciences in UD’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment , also will compare the process of temperature adaptation in the polar worm, known scientifically as Capitella...Read Full Story

Vostok Station, Antarctica: Specialists at the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute predict they will find 'the only giant super-clean water system on the planet-- ancient Lake Vostok, the largest and deepest sub-glacial lake in Antarctica --under 2.5 miles of...Read Full Story

Multiple ancient tectonic events may have formed youthful looking mountain range. National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded researchers may have at last answered a 50 year-old conundrum. They may now know how Antarctica's Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains were formed, which has been a question for scientists since their discovery in 1958. Researchers have probed the depths under Antarctic ice to reveal a map of the Gamburtsev Mountains (see inset to the right). Credit: Zina Deretsky...Read Full Story

Next week a British engineering team heads off to Antarctica for the first stage of an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice. This extraordinary research project, at the frontier of exploration, will yield new knowledge about the evolution of life on Earth and other planets, and will provide vital clues about the Earth’s past climate. Transporting nearly 70 tons of equipment the ‘advance party’ will make a...Read Full Story