Love, love, love, love this video. Marine scientist Cassandra Brooks strapped a camera to the front of NSF’s icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer as it sailed for two months through the ice-choked Ross Sea off Antartica. But unlike her, you don’t have to sit through two-months of ice smashing while fighting your shipmates for the . . . → Read More: Break through 2 months of Antarctic sea ice in 5 minutes
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By Dr. Martini, on  May 6th, 2013  5 comments  Expeditions, Life At Sea, Polar, Sea Ice, Vessels and Equipment  Antarctica, Ice Breaker, penguins, polynyas, Ross Sea By Dr Bik, on January 4th, 2013 Leave a comment Expeditions, New Research, Organisms Antarctica, biogeography, Genetics, genomics, invertebrates, Organisms, scientific cruise, scientific expedition, Species Diversity Genomics, Biodiversity, and Antarctica – three of my favourite things! For all you expedition junkies, these three things are exactly the focus of the 2013 “Ivy Inverts” cruise. My Gulf oil spill collaborator at Auburn University, Ken Halanych (along with an international team of students and colleagues), is currently steaming towards Antarctica aboard the Research . . . → Read More: “Icy Inverts” 2013 Cruise – Scientific Adventures in Antarctic Waters
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 2nd, 2012 7 comments Ecology, Pictures and Movies Anemone, Antarctica, Diving, Jellies, jellyfish, McMurdo, scuba Big tip ‘o the hat to @RebeccaRHelm on Twitter for sharing this beautiful video with great music on it. Make sure you stick with the video to about 2/3′s of the way through to see what happens to the jelly! Video information: United States Antarctic Program divers, Henry Kaiser and Rob Robbins, both videotape . . . → Read More: Beneath Antarctic Ice: Gelatinous Edition
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 1st, 2012 2 comments Expeditions Antarctica, Cold Dark Benthos, deep sea, McMurdo, Microbes, scientific expedition, Scripps, Tonga Trench Expedition, Trench Looking for vicarious adventure? Check out two new expedition blogs, both of which are underway right now! The Tonga Trench Expedition team The Tonga Trench Expedition is a Scripps Institution of Oceanography student cruise, led by Scripps graduate student/chief scientist Rosa Leon Zayas. (and if anyone out there is looking for a kick-ass female Latina . . . → Read More: Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica
By para_sight, on November 23rd, 2011 6 comments Environmental Sciences Antarctica, BBC, Frozen Planet, Ice, starfish, urchins I just can’t wait until the BBC series Frozen Planet airs here in the states. Take this clip for example, which the BBC released today. It shows a “brinicle”, which is a sort of underwater icicle that forms under sea ice in winter. As the surface ice freezes, it preferentially takes up fresh water, leaving . . . → Read More: The icy colder finger of death
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 6th, 2011 10 comments Climate Change Antarctica, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, glacier, global warming, graphs, ice sheet, IceBridge, Independent Media Centre Australia, NASA, Pine Island Glacier A new addition to my Confronting Climate Contrarianism series, much too long in waiting. Found this interesting animated gif on Andre Nantel’s G+ stream. He found it with no attribution on Reddit (UPDATE: graph from an excellent post on Skeptical Science). Gernot commented on that stream with a link to a Sydney Morning Herald piece . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism III: Data Realism and the Rabbit Hole
By Miriam Goldstein, on December 14th, 2010 6 comments Organisms Antarctica, Clione, Doctor Who, Limacina, Mollusc, Predation “Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And don’t blink.” – The Doctor The Weeping Angels are the monster of the week in one of my very favorite Doctor Who episodes. They look like saccharine angel statues…until they strike. The Weeping Angels could very well have been modeled . . . → Read More: Angels in Antarctica
By Dr. M, on December 8th, 2010 2 comments Life At Sea, Natural Disaster, Vessels and Equipment, Weather Antarctica, Drake Passage gCaptain brought my attention to cruise ship rather unfortunate encounter with the Drake Passage. For those who don’t know, the Drake Passage is the hell hole between the tip of South America and the Antarctica Peninsula infamous for the roughest seas in the world. Go ahead type “roughest seas in the world” into Google, . . . → Read More: Cruise ship encounters heavy seas in Drake Passage
Antarctica – Below Zero from Alex.Be. on Vimeo. Hat tip to Chris Mah. By Kevin Zelnio, on March 22nd, 2010 Leave a comment Expeditions, Organisms Antarctica, Clam Beds, cold seep, David Honig, glacier, Icerberg, LARISSA, Larsen Ice Shelf, Methane Seep, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, Ross Ice Shelf, sea ice, Vesicomyidae, Weddell Sea 
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
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