Antarctic Projects

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Shedding Light on an Ecosystem in the Dark Studying how a polar marine ecosystem responds to an ice shelf collapse Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Studying Air and Sea Interactions at Terra Nova Bay Monitoring Earth’s Atmosphere Measuring Global CO₂ from the Cleanest Air on Earth Frozen History Using ice cores to read the story of the earth’s past climates		Wilkes Land Expedition Drilling into Antarctica’s Deep Climate Past Peering through East Antarctica Ice Mapping the Icy Continent from Above First Descents: Exploring Seas Under the Ice Building an underwater robot for Antarctic marine science The Oldest Ice on Earth? Investigating buried glacier ice in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
Floating Ecosystems Thriving ecosystems—made up of phytoplankton, seabirds, and more—form when free-floating icebergs melt into the sea. Seeing the Past with Sound Imaging Antarctica's climate history Mapping the Last Mountain Range on Earth Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Mountains IceCube Using the world's largest neutrino telescope, buried in the ice below the South Pole, to detect violent events in distant galaxies Pulse of the Poles A network of geosensors on both poles will monitor bedrock beneath the ice.		Into the Great White Open Traversing the ice sheet from pole to troll Ross Sea Penguins Studying how penguins respond to climate change in Antarctica Under the Glaciers Investigating the lakes, floods, and waterways beneath the West Antarctica Ice Sheet Chasing Science in Antarctica Penguins, neutrinos, and Mars on Earth Melting Antarctica Measuring ecological change and warming at the Antarctic Peninsula
South Pole Telescope Viewing the distant universe from the bottom of the world Antifreeze Fish Studying Antarctic toothfish and the special proteins in their bodies that help them thrive in subfreezing waters		Drilling through Time Bringing up deep sediment cores from under ice-covered seas at the edge of the Antarctic continent Sky-High Science Studying cosmic rays, antimatter, ice sheets, and more using scientific balloons