Dale Andersen: Our research in the perennially ice-covered lakes of Antarctica involves long, hard days, but they are always fun and exciting.
NAI scientists from the University of Wisconsin Team and their colleagues have shown that the true age of this famous meteorite is 4.091 billion years, about 400 million years younger […]
Loren Williams, “Where Did Protein Come From?” Date/Time: Tuesday December 8, 2009 2:30PM Pacific Speaker: Loren Williams (Georgia Institute of Technology) Abstract: Ribosomes are RNA-based macromolecular machines responsible for the […]
Date/Time: Tuesday November 10, 2009 2:30PM Pacific Speaker: Kevin Hand (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Abstract: The plumes and observed heat flux in the South Polar Terrain of Enceladus remain a considerable […]
There’s not much in the ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to interest anglers looking to land the big one. But for scientists who want to know more about […]
The “Martha T. Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica” is a US $100,000 unrestricted award presented to an individual in the fields of Antarctic science or policy that […]
The traverse train is not only the wave of the logistics future in Antarctic, but it may soon use some high-tech gadgetry to complete its mission even faster. Paul Thur […]
The robot that scientists deployed last year into ice-covered Lake Bonney in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys isn’t small.
One of the things Scott Parazynski will be looking or during his ascent of Mt. Everest is evidence of habitable zones for microorganisms. Given the low temperatures, air pressure, high […]
Methane (CH4) is an important greenhouse gas in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for approximately 20% of the observed greenhouse effect. With an atmospheric lifetime of about ten years, methane levels […]
