They specifically looked at the glaciers grounding line where ice slides off and meets the ocean. The animals inhabit a wedge of . Once we got back home and made sure everyone was all right, we got on with working up the data and getting a whole load of papers ready for submission, Turney said. After that his trail went cold. What B09B has done is effectively fast track an area of East Antarctica and given us an insight into what the rest of the place might be experiencing if the trend continues, Turney said. Scientists the world over are watching the Antarctic and Greeland ice sheets with keen interest, because as they melt in response to global warming, global sea level will rise, wiping out coastal communities. So the mystery is still unsolved, and the only thing we know for sure is it's probably a bad idea to go hiking alone in the foothills of southern Chile. According to ECS Nepal, Bista was an anthropologist of great acclaim today he's remembered as the father of Nepalese anthropology. Previously, Howe has released the testimony of another military whistleblower, Brian, who was a Navy flight engineer who had flown numerous support missions with the Antarctic Development Squadron from 1983 to 1997. What has happened in Commonwealth Bay may be echoed around the continent in the future. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is a thematic organisation of the International Science Council (ISC), and was created in 1958.SCAR is charged with initiating, developing and coordinating high quality international scientific research in the Antarctic region (including the Southern Ocean), and on the role of the Antarctic region in the Earth system. The latest casualties were identified as John Coll, 23, of Glasgow, Scotland, Ambrose Morgan, 22, of Hampshire, and Kevin Ockleton, 22, of Yorkshire. A couple ships went out in search of Rusanov in the years that followed, but the closest anyone ever came to learning the fate of the ship was a few "personal effects" found on Popova-Chukchina Island, and awooden column on another island inscribed with the ship's name, "Gerkules." Bounds on Earth's climate sensitivityhow far temperatures will eventually rise for a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxidedid not narrow for 40 years. The NASA Ames Research Center even volunteered to steer a high-altitude aircraft over the search area. Before his disappearance, Mutch was the Associate Administrator for Space Science at NASA and the author of two books on the geology of the Moon and Mars. While the oldest known core of ice dates back approximately 2.7 million years, per Science, the oldest continuous ice core dates back just 800,000. The land of snow and ice was once a flourishing continent. A rescue mission swung into operation. According to Russian Arctic Seas: Navigational Conditions and Accidents, after a successful expedition into Svalbard in 1912, Rusanov and 11 of his crew decided to sail to the Pacific Ocean via the Northern Sea Route, which was by all accounts kind of a stupid idea. Also, some mountains look a bit pyramid like from some directions. We've received your submission. People who try to climb Mount Everest sometimes die from "summit fever," which is a sort of psychosis. So not only is Ernst Priesner still missing today, but his work has been set back until someone else steps up to the plate so we can better understand how and why cockroaches get it on, and stuff. Vostok is right in the center of the Antarctic platter, he said, situated somewhat to the East. There was disruption and we were incredibly grateful to everyone for their help. I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week, he said. Scientists say that the lake disappeared from the Amery Ice Shelf sometime . Priesner was a well-known biologist who was interested in pheromones, collaborating on some of the great works on the subject, like Olfactory Receptor Response to the Cockroach Sexual Attractant and Wind-tunnel study on attraction inhibitor in male Coleophora laricella Hbn. After his disappearance, NASA honored him by renaming the Mars Lander the "Thomas A. Mutch Memorial Station." BERLIN (AP) Scientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets. 2022 BGR Media, LLC. According to a study published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers have discovered a massive living world below Antarctica's icy surface that could be as big as 5 million square. Pearce knows well enough, having spent 15 years working in and on Antarctica. Market data provided by Factset. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -129degreesFahrenheit (-89.4 degrees Celsius). On its website, the AAE says it hopes to release most of its key findings to the public domain within a year of the expedition's return to New Zealand. In 2019, a team of 13 US and British scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration traveled to the glacier for about six weeks and used mooring data, sensors and an. Scientists have recently discovered a hidden world underneath Antarctica. At a remote Antarctic outpost, cameras have been installed to capture time-lapse images of geological features in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Temps are dropping below -40 Celsius [-40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station, Dr. John Priscu professor of ecology at Montana State University and former head of the Whillans Antarctic exploration program told FoxNews.com via email. One scientific theory claims that once upon a time Antarctica was ice-free and home to an ancient civilisation. This is the 46th U.S. expedition to Antarctica in which USGS scientists have participated. Vostok is right in the center of the Antarctic platter, he said, situated somewhat to the East. At the bottom, they noticed multiple blurry, tiny specks flashing in front of the video feed. The birds are now commuting 40 miles to get food for their young. The. The expedition will return to Hobart, Australia, rather than to its home port of Bluff, New Zealand, and the planned stop at Macquarie Island is, in Stone's words, "so not on." . LOS ANGELES, April 15 (UPI) -- Electronic dance music artist Calvin Harris is Taylor Swift's newest romantic interest, but Harris, 31, reportedly doesn't want a song written about him. We all went to a local Mexican restaurant and after dinner, we kept talking until after midnight outside in the restaurant parking lot under trees. Its the worlds largest ice shelf and has been the focus of multiple research projects over the years. Some of these, like the warming effect of water . Brian and his crew also saw a huge, football-field-sized hole in the ice only about five to ten miles from the geographic South Pole that was supposed to be a No Fly Zone. Now to be fair, he was known for doing research alone in remote places, but he was an anthropologist, so it's unlikely he would have been conducting research in places totally devoid of other humans. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. AmundsenScott South Pole Station. Davis added that the joint studies could can help make more accurate projections about sea level rise, which can be fed into efforts to mitigate climate change and protect coastal communities. The new findings fill in the missing pieces to previous studies about the glacier, according to the authors. DEEP WOO: DID MUSKS OPEN A.I. And that the air sampling station (big hole in the ice) was actually ajoint base with the scientists and the E.T.s., Brian, retired Navy Flight Engineer, Antarctic Development Squadron Six, July 1, 2016 Phoenix, Arizona A year and a half ago in January 2015, I received an email from a retired 60-year-old U. S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer, who asked me to only call him Brian. [See June 30, 2016 URL link to new reprint of whole original interview at end of this report below.]. The glacier is still in trouble despite small amounts of melting there is still rapid glacier retreat, so it seems that it doesnt take a lot to push the glacier out of balance.. Chilean authorities concluded he drowned while trying to cross. Valdimir Korshunov and Alexi Brushlinski, Russian scientists who worked in the microbiology field, were murdered in Moscow within two weeks of each other in early 2002. Prior to the discovery of the ozone hole, the ozone layer over Antarctica had been monitored from ground-based and balloon-borne instruments for many decades, and by satellites since 1970. Live Science features groundbreaking developments in science, space, technology, health, the environment, our culture and history. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. The Russians have their own way of dealing with things, particularly the media, which I respect, he told FoxNews.com. The researchers, led by professors from the University of New South Wales, were on the way home from a voyage to retrace the 1911 to 1914 route of Australian geologist Sir Douglas Mawson, in an expedition that combined adventure with science and public outreach, when they got stuck. Still, the absence of information after nearly a week has the worlds scientists worried and wondering. Here's a list of a few (more or less) modern scientists who are still missing today. Get a daily look at whats developing in science and technology throughout the world. The three were last heard from Aug. 13 near Petermann Island, 6 miles from their Faraday Antarctic research base. Built by an ancient and powerful race and hidden under the ice. Fawcett was never found, but his lost City of Z kind of turned out to be a real thing. Turney and his team are especially interested in learning whether the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is stable or in danger of melting, studying shifts in the circulation of the Southern Ocean, and noting changes in populations of marine mammals, birds, and plant life. Two studies published Aug. 10 and led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reveal unexpected new data about how the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass in recent decades. Since his failed expedition, archaeologists have discovered huge cities of stone fortified by walls hidden within the jungle, not too far from where he disappeared. The findings, published. Loading from SPACESHOT76: HAS Q MADE A RETURN? This rough-looking vessel carries some 30 scientists; four Zodiac boats; three tracked, floating, all-terrain vehicles called Argos; and an assortment of scientific equipment. "It's always an inherent risk," expedition leader Chris Turney told Popular Mechanics via Skype on Dec. 27. The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below . We don't actually know for sure what happened to him, though, as he went off into the wilderness by himself with no witnesses and no one to come back and tell his friends and family about his unfortunate fate. Still, the absence of information after nearly a week has the worlds scientists worried and wondering. Thwaites contributes to about 4% of annual sea level rise due to shedding billions of tons of ice into the ocean, according to researchers. BGRs audience craves our industry-leading insights on the latest in tech and entertainment, as well as our authoritative and expansive reviews. "The other guys dropped a core into the seabed today and did really well, so they got some sediments as well. I dont think theres anything sinister or ominous, Pearce said. The voyage was meant to retrace the steps of Douglas Mawson, the great polar explorer and scientist who led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911. A group of scientists discovered ancient viruses frozen in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China, and most of them are unlike anything ever seen before. Gray's friends and colleagues weren't about to give up, though. The ship itself was never found, and neither was the crew. When the weather gets bad, they. 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