NIU professor, student part of drilling project exploring continent’s warmer past. As a kindergartner, Justin Dodd went to “career day” as a geologist. As a teenager, Finlay McElmeel fell in love with astronomy. Those passions will converge late this year in an unlikely location: the windiest, driest and coldest continent on the planet.
Our 2024/25 season is underway! The Antarctica New Zealand traverse arrived at KIS3 on 15 November, after a 15-day, 1328 km journey across the Ross Ice Shelf.
An ambitious mission is underway for critical geological records to forecast future sea-level rise, with the first team members departing on a 1128 km journey over ice to set up…