Antarctic Guide Blog
Lake Vostok finally breached!
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/russians-drill-into-previously-untouched-lake-vostok-below-antarctica/2012/02/06/gIQAGziNuQ_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop Russians drill into previously untouched Lake Vostok below Antarctic glacier By Marc Kaufman, Tuesday, February 7, 5:38 AM Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never-before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, according to a source quoted Monday by Ria Novosti, a state-run Russian news agency. “Yesterday, our […]
Lake Vostok – more conjecture
www.AntarcticGuide.com Editorial – Sigh. While Sci-fi fans are dreaming of The Thing and X-Files and the world waits for word from the Russian team drilling into Lake Vostok. “They are missing” we hear. “No they are not” says the Daily Mail. But reading closer we learn that an Arctic expert “believes” all is well and […]
Where on earth are they?
www.AntarcticGuide.com Where on earth are they? Russian scientists searching for underground ‘alien’ lake still missing on SEVENTH day as Tuesday ‘date of no return’ looms By ROB COOPER and THOMAS DURANTE Last updated at 6:05 PM on 5th February 2012 The scientific community is holding its breath for a team of Russian scientists that has […]
28cm amphipod discovered!
http://www.asianscientist.com/topnews/giant-superprawn-amphipod-28-cm-long-new-zealand-kermadec-trench-niwa-2012/ ASIAN SCIENTIST NEWSROOM FEBRUARY 3, 2012 Scientists aboard the RV Kaharoa have discovered ‘supergiant’ prawns in New Zealand’s Kermadec Trench that are 28 centimeters long and 10 to 14 times larger than regular prawns. AsianScientist (Feb. 3, 2012) – Scientists aboard the RV Kaharoa on a recent expedition to one of the deepest places […]
Lake Vostok scientists lost contact
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/ Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen ‘Land of the Lost’? A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues — and as the days creep by, the fate […]
Explorer’s grandson feels weight of history
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/6208886/Explorers-grandson-feels-weight-of-history Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s grandson says his visit to the explorer’s original Antarctic hut on January was an “incredible” experience. Falcon Scott will leave Scott Base today to volunteer with the Antarctic Heritage Trust as a carpenter on the restoration of his grandfather’s later Terra Nova hut at Cape Evans. He said the […]
Tracking the magnetic south pole
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.nature.com/news/tracking-the-magnetic-south-pole-1.9676 Tracking the magnetic south pole Return to Scott’s Antarctic camp marks 100-year anniversary. Nicola Jones Two scientists from New Zealand will travel to Antarctica today in a quest to continue a 100-year-long record of Earth’s magnetic field: a record begun by British explorer Robert Scott at the start of his ill-fated expedition to […]
Shortage of icebreakers could lose US the race to the Antarctic
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://io9.com/5873385/shortage-of-icebreaker-ships-could-lose-us-the-race-to-explore-the-antarctic PESSIMISM BY KEITH VERONESE Shortage of icebreaker ships could lose us the race to explore the Antarctic What happens when scientists need supplies, but are hundreds of miles from civilization and surrounded by an 8 foot thick sheet of ice? Billion dollar, specially designed icebreaker ships act as mobile science platforms and make […]
Mountain Range Found Under Antarctic Ice
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.voanews.com/english/news/environment/Scientist-Finds-Mountain-Range-Under-Antarctic-Ice—136661463.html At Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a short drive north of New York City, more than 300 scientists and researchers are delving into the geophysical mysteries of our planet from virtually every angle. One project is to discover what’s happening beneath the world’s largest ice sheet in remote eastern Antarctica. It’s late afternoon […]
Penguin cam to keep watch on the waddlers
www.AntarcticGuide.com http://www.smh.com.au/environment/penguincam-to-keep-watch-on-the-waddlers-20111229-1pe3e.html Penguin-cam to keep watch on the waddlers Jo Chandler IT SEEMS no one, and nothing, is safe from the all-seeing gaze of remote camera technology. And it doesn’t get much more remote than Antarctic penguin CCTV. Over the past six summers scientists working from the Australian research stations of Mawson, Davis and Casey […]