Sun, 9 Oct 2022 4:09 PM Hi Keith, my current schedule (along with a few other details) is:
Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine
Oldest Marine DNA Discovered In Antarctic Sediments
Scientists have discovered one million year old marine DNA in deep-sea sediments of the Scotia Sea, north of the Antarctic continent.
Learning About The First Animals On Earth From Life At The Poles
The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier than the oldest fossils suggest according to new […]
Host-associated Phages Disperse Across The Extraterrestrial Analogue Antarctica
Extreme Antarctic conditions provide one of the closest analogues of extraterrestrial environments. Since air and snow samples, especially from polar regions, yield DNA amounts in the lower picogram range, binning […]
Robots Race Against climate Change On The Antarctic Seafloor
New Zealand’s Antarctic scientists are racing to document life on the seafloor in the Ross Sea before ecosystems change, possibly forever, as the world warms. Underwater robots have been deployed […]
Underwater Snow Gives Clues About Europa’s Icy Shell
Image: Mounds of snow-like frazil ice under the Antarctic ice shelf. According to research from UT Austin, Europa’s ice shell could be made of the same stuff. © Helen Glazer […]
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 25 December 2021: Merry Christmas From Cape Town
Dale Andersen: “Merry Christmas to all from Cape Town, South Africa! My team and I returned from, Antarctica Thursday and are awaiting our next set of flights home on the […]
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 22 December 2021: Return To Novo Station
Just got this from Dale: “The IL-76 arrived yesterday in preparation for an airdrop of fuel at Halley station. Hopefully that will take place tomorrow and we will return to […]
Abundance Of Life Discovered Beneath An Antarctic Ice Shelf
Far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic, there is more marine life than expected, finds a recent study in the journal Current Biology, published this week (20 December 2021).
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen Antarctic Status Report 4 December 2021: Day Trip To Lake Obersee
Message from Dale Andersen on 4 Dec 2021 at 4:23 am ET “I’m starting my trip. Follow along at my MapShare site! Heading to lakeObersee for the day.” Update a4 […]
