McMurdo Station, Antartica

The project establishes continuous data collection for McMurdo Station - the flagship research outpost for U.S. Antarctic Program-supported research. For the first time, station staff can access live temperature, salinity and tide data for the seawater at their doorstep. Doing so, Cziko said, is important for station operations and ...

It is outfitted with skis over its landing gear for the flight to the McMurdo Antarctic station, and lands on an ice runway. McMurdo is the main U.S. base in Antarctica, and there the team draws the rest of the supplies for the expedition, including tents, stoves, food, snowmobiles, and meteorite collection kits.

While these aren't the first vegetables grown in Antarctica — McMurdo Station has been growing fresh vegetables for a while — they were still a welcome sight to the 10 researchers working at Neumayer Station III. Their supply of fresh veggies from late February had long-since been consumed. Now that ...

The following year, Meg spent a season on the “Ice,” as a helicopter specialist for Antarctica Support Associates at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. In 1998, as a warranted contracting officer, she became the aviation resource specialist for the Department of the Interior Office of Aircraft Services (OAS), then ...

Blue-green algae covering the floor of a meltwater pond on the McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica. The ponds have liquid water in summer and freeze in winter. The environmental conditions are extreme and only microbial life can thrive in these unique Antarctic ecosystems. Image credit: Taylor & Francis ...

It is outfitted with skis over its landing gear for the flight to the McMurdo Antarctic station, and lands on an ice runway. McMurdo is the main U.S. base in Antarctica, and there the team draws the rest of the supplies for the expedition, including tents, stoves, food, snowmobiles, and meteorite collection kits.

"We were 900 miles away from McMurdo Sound, the main Navy base in Antarctica, 900 miles away from the South Pole base and 400 miles from the Antarctic Ocean. So we were out in no-man's land." Making matters even more desolate, cargo planes and other aircraft stopped delivering supplies and ...

More than a hundred structures perched next to a frozen sea, near a volcano, McMurdo Station was originally built to support human life in one of the planet's most hostile climates for an operational lifespan of two years. It just turned 62. This aging complex is the primary logistical facility for the pursuit of ...

It's like something out of a dream: a minke whale gliding by under loose sea ice near McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. ... in a channel of water cleared by the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to allow both the U.S. research facility, McMurdo Station, and the New Zeland station, Scott Base, to resupply.

She was trying out a new underwater-camera prototype designed by Anthony Powell, an Antarctic filmmaker at production company Antzworks, only ... "The plan was to film continuously across the icebreaker channel that is prepared for the re-supply vessel to cross McMurdo Sound," Eisert said in the ...