Antarctica Content

Amanda Frazier: Holding Kindness

Katherine E Kerlin — August 08, 2022 - 10:00am

�ٺ��Ƶ polar fish ecologist Amanda Frazier on climate anxiety and the wonders of Antarctica and human kindness.

Outlook for the Polar Regions in a 2 Degrees Warmer World

Katherine E Kerlin — December 04, 2019 - 2:14pm

With 2019 on pace as one of the warmest years on record, a major new study from the University of California, Davis, reveals how rapidly the Arctic is warming and examines global consequences of continued polar warming.

The study, published today in the journal Science Advances reports that the Arctic has warmed by 0.75 C in the last decade alone. By comparison, the Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount, 0.8 C, over the past 137 years.

How Fast Are Ice Shelves Really Melting?

Katherine E Kerlin — February 22, 2019 - 12:55pm

A small group of scientists and doctoral students from the University of California, Davis, recently returned from Antarctica, where they became the first group to collect turbulence measurements from an underwater glider beneath an ice shelf.

This multinational collaboration being led by the Korea Polar Research Institute, or KOPRI, was only the second time a glider has been successfully deployed underneath an ice shelf.

The Last Stop: When There’s Nowhere Colder to Go

Katherine E Kerlin — October 18, 2017 - 4:22pm

Fish have been migrating to cooler water over the last several decades as the ocean warms. But in Antarctica, the coldest place on the planet, polar species have nowhere to go.

Marine life in Antarctica is especially vulnerable to climate change, which is warming oceans throughout the world. Anne Todgham, an animal scientist at the University of California, Davis, is studying how — and whether — polar fish will adapt to the changing conditions.

Beneath the Ice in Antarctica

Katherine E Kerlin — May 08, 2017 - 10:40am

Update Aug. 14: Watch KCRA-TV's coverage of Alex Forrest as he deploys underwater glider for climate change research in Lake Tahoe.

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To outer space and the deep ocean, add “beneath the ice” to the list of rarely charted frontiers of science exploration.