Mike Carmody conducts a field meteorology class for Glenn Helkenn and Jonathan Hayden, from left, in September in Denver before they head south to Antarctica.
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Weather Warrior
How does weather forecasting in Iraq prepare a person for work in the U.S. Antarctic Program? The only difference, according to meteorologist Mike Carmody, between a remote outpost in Iraq and a field camp in Antarctica is temperature. And maybe a few improvised explosive devices.
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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.