Need For Speed
It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn State researchers.

Keeping Track
Mike Goebel uses high- and low-tech methods to find what Antarctic fur seals had for dinner. The interest in diet isn't simply for curiosity's sake. Goebel and his NOAA colleagues use the information to study the health of the marine ecosystem around Livingston Island.

Going on a Diet
There's an old saying: You are what you eat. But the krill-based diet of penguins breeding and living on King George Island off the northern end of the Antarctic Peninsula first tipped scientists off that food could provide an altogether different insight.

Away From the Lab
Science doesn't just happen in sterile labs. Researchers interested in studying one of the world's fastest-changing ecosystems spend months at a time living out of a handful of wooden buildings on the South Shetland Islands just off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Previous Stories

• Remote Operations
• Going With the Flow
• Cosmological Crisis
• 'Antarctic Souls'
• Focus on IPY
• Tourism Influx
• Ice Rescue
• Bridge to the Past
• Connecting the Pieces
• Biological Pulse
• Deep Into WAIS Divide
• Martin A. Pomerantz
• Lost Fossils