February 4, 2009
Heading home
Stories by Robin Bell
January 22, 2009
Skiway silence
January 19, 2009
Suspended animation
January 15, 2009
Line by line
January 6, 2009
A picture is worth a thousand words
December 30, 2008
At AGAP camp at last
December 24, 2008
Rising frustration
December 23, 2008
A long weekend at the South Pole
December 19, 2008
Kicking rocks
December 19, 2008
Running into an invisible wall
December 17, 2008
Almost calibrated
December 11, 2008
Crackling pretzels
December 10, 2008
At last, people moving!
December 9, 2008
Audacious Plans, Nasty Weather
December 4, 2008
Old bones and socks
December 3, 2008
Wiggles and bits--We have data!
December 2, 2008
Bookshelf science
December 1, 2008
Thanksgiving Day (in Antarctica) blizzard
December 1, 2008
Moving the Chess Pieces
November 24, 2008
A shoveling scientific community
November 21, 2008
A flight to a continent dressed in white
November 18, 2008
Getting to Antarctica--Or not
November 12, 2008
Dispatches from the Bottom of the Earth: An Antarctic Expedition in Search of Lost Mountains Encased in Ice
Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet and will be updating Scientific American readers regularly. Following are her initial thoughts as she--and her team--prepare to set off.
EnvironmentFebruary 1, 2008
The Unquiet Ice
Abundant liquid water newly discovered underneath the world's great ice sheets could intensify the destabilizing effects of global warming on the sheets. Then, even without melting, the sheets may slide into the sea and raise sea level catastrophically