Antarctica, the Ozone Hole, and Global Warming
Are Global Warming and the Antarctic Ozone Hole related? Yes. Before I explain that, some basic facts. We live in the lower part of the atmosphere called the troposphere where …
Antarctica: The Problem Child of future sea level change in this century
Iceberg Ross Sea, Antarctica. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk A few weeks ago I posted about discoveries that showed dynamic collapse of marine-based parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is …
Antarctic Ice Sheets – the fuse has been lit.
Snowmobile party crossing the blue ice of Balchen Glacier, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk Have the Antarctic Ice Sheets reached the Point of No Return? This …
Big Dead Place – The Man Who Loved Antarctica
Reprinted here is my Amazon review of this book… Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson Snowmobiles in the Birchall Peaks, Marie Byrd …
AAAS; What We Know – about Climate Change, Antarctica
Terra Nova Bay, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Photo © B. Luyendyk The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) recently issued a web page and a short booklet (http://whatweknow.aaas.org) addressing issues …
FORCE Team explores Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
Hercules from VXE-6 unloads FORCE team, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, December 1989. Photo © B. Luyendyk Our work focused in on the Fosdick, Phillips and Chester Mountains in the northern Ford …
The FORCE Expeditions (Ford Ranges Crustal Exploration) 1989-90, 1990-91
Tucker, Steve, Cain, Dave, Bruce and Christine, Put-In day to Ford Ranges. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk White Ocean of Ice deals with investigation of plate tectonic history in the Southwestern Pacific. …
White Ocean, Richard Byrd and the Ford Ranges
Birchall Peaks. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk Richard E. Byrd first explored Marie Byrd Land (MBL) in West Antarctica in the early part of the Twentieth Century in three expeditions. Byrd’s expeditions …
Antarctic Ice Sheet – growing or shrinking?
Posted by SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research): “What will Antarctica and the Southern Ocean look like in 2065?” The 1st Martha T. Muse Fellows Colloquium; 22 April 2014; Queenstown, New …
A Memoir of Exploration in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica
My first post in my first blog. This quotation explains why I am writing a memoir of my first expedition to Antarctica: “We have two or three moving experiences in …