McMurdo Station Antarctica

McMurdo Station Antarctica

Experiences and musings from the far south. This is a place to learn about McMurdo researchers and their experiments and experiences.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has been studying glaciers in Antarctica, looking at their reducing surface area. As the glaciers retreat, more open water is exposed, and lead author of a new study, Professor Lloyd Peck of the BAS found that large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula...  
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