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Big Ideas Climate Change Ice Astronomy in Antarctica The South Pole(s) Antarctic Geology Penguins more ideas » Arctic Projects The Bears of Summer Reading Snowflakes Trans Fat, Algae, and Arctic Climate Change Expedition to Greenland Breaking the Ice The Changing Arctic more projects » Antarctic Projects Shedding Light on an Ecosystem in the Dark Wilkes Land Expedition First Descents: Exploring Seas Under the Ice Monitoring Earth’s Atmosphere Frozen History Ross Sea Penguins Under the Glaciers more projects » Polar Media Polar News About Links Meet Our Crew For the International Polar Year, we gave polar scientists cameras and blogging tools and asked them to document their field work. Follow along on their adventures and see what it’s like to be a research scientist in the Arctic or Antarctica. { Read More» } For downloadable images and videos, visit the Polar Media Collection . Adrienne Block Mapping the Last Mountain Range on Earth Andrea Balbas Seeing the Past with Sound Cassandra Brooks Antifreeze Fish Christina Riesselman Drilling through time David Ainley Ross Sea Penguins Diane Chakos Floating Ecosystems Doug Kowalewski The Oldest Ice on Earth? Heidi Roop Frozen History Howie Koss Seeing the Past with Sound Jack Holt Peering through East Antarctica Ice John Cassano Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Jake Walter Under the Glaciers Jean Pennycook Ross Sea Penguins Kathryn Schaffer Miknaitis South Pole Telescope Kelly Carroll Pulse of the Poles Lucas Beem Under the Glaciers Maria Vernet Floating Ecosystems Melting Antarctica Mark Krasberg IceCube Mattias Cape Shedding Light on an Ecosystem in the Dark Nadine Quintana Krupinski Under the Glaciers Nick Morgan Monitoring Earth’s Atmosphere Rob Dunbar Wilkes Land Expedition Robin Bell Mapping the Last Mountain Range on Earth Saffia Hossainzadeh Under the Glaciers Slawek Tulaczyk Under the Glaciers Stacy Kim First Descents: Exploring Seas Under the Ice Zoe Courville Into the Great White Open Amy Breen The Changing Arctic Anne Jensen Ancient Bones and Iñupiaq Culture Billy D’Andrea Trans Fat, Algae, and Arctic Climate Change Doug LaVigne Digging Deep for Climate History John Whiteman The Bears of Summer Ken Tape Alaska’s Arctic Landscape Then and Now Kevin Fall Breaking the Ice Laura Thomas Ancient Bones and Iñupiaq culture Phil McGillivary Breaking the Ice Richard "Chico" Perales Behind Polar Science Steve Hastings The Breathing Tundra Zoe Courville Reading Snowflakes Summit Camp, Greenland webcam South Pole webcam McMurdo Station webcam The South Pole(s) » When you imagine the South Pole, what do you see? An empty, frozen, white expanse with a red- and white-striped pole sticking out? { Read More» } Monitoring Earth’s Atmosphere » Scientists at NOAA’s Atmospheric Research Observatory (ARO) at the South Pole are measuring global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from the cleanest air on earth. { Read More» } [Watch Video] Get the Flash Player to see this program. IceCube Neutrino Telescope Join us as we talk to scientists working with IceCube, a neutrino telescope buried in the ice under the South Pole. Running Time: 00:39:52 { See all Videos» } Most popular tags: Adelie AGAP airplane Alaska Antarctica Antarctic Plateau archaeology Arctic atmosphere Atmospheric Research Observatory audio dispatch Barrow Basler aircraft Beaufort Sea behind polar science Bering Sea biology birds botany C-17 C18A camping Camp Winter Cape Crozier Cape Royds capture Christchurch Climate Change climate history data deep field camp diatoms drillers drilling Dry Valleys early explorers East Antarctica East Antarctic Ice Sheet ecology ecosystem Extreme Cold Weather Extreme Weather food glacier glaciers GPS Greenland Greenland Ice Sheet Hagglund helicopter Ice icebergs icebreakers ice core ice sheet JOIDES Resolution krill LC-130 aircraft McMurdo Sound McMurdo Station Mt. Erebus ozone Paleoclimate penguins permafrost phytoplankton Polar Bears polar logistics polynya pressure ridges radar Ross Sea Ross Sea Penguins SCINI Scott Base Sea Ice seals sediment cores sedimentology Siple Dome skidoos snow snow pit Southern Ocean South Pole south pole station South Pole Telescope subglacial lakes Summit Camp survival Transantarctic Mountains tundra twin otter Unmanned Aerial Vehicles video dispatch WAIS Divide West Antarctic Ice Sheet whales Whillans Ice Stream zooplankton Browse all tags . Breaking the Ice Ears of the Deep, Part IV: Recovering and Deploying Moorings » by Kevin Fall , September 24, 2008 ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY , ON THE BEAUFORT SEA– Recovering a mooring of any significant size essentially amounts to getting it to the surface and picking it up with a ship using a crane... { Read More» } . Ross Sea Penguins Snow Storms Are Hard on Adélie Penguins » by Jean Pennycook , December 16, 2009 CAPE ROYDS, ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA– This year the breeding colony at Cape Royds has experienced several large snow storms. A little snow is okay, but this year the amount is more than usual... { Read More» } . Under the Glaciers - 57 Degrees with Wind Chill » by Saffia Hossainzadeh , November 21, 2008 MCMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA Any person who is required to venture off base, or out of McMurdo, has to take a course called Snowcraft 1 or ‘Happy Camper School’. We learn the basics of camping in Antarctica with our survival kit... { Read More» } . Floating Ecosystems Primary Production » by Maria Vernet , June 27, 2008 SOUTHERN OCAEN Phytoplankton were active in these waters during this June cruise. 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