2025 Ocean Sentinel Mission

The Sentinel Mission is a challenge to circumnavigate the global ocean following nautical rules by an underwater robot. The mission will use the newly developed Teledyne Marine’s new Sentinel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Our vision…

Happy Antarctica Week 2020!

  In honor of Antarctica Day (December 1), our colleague Kasey Walsh has been posting a new blog each day focused on long-term data trends as observed at Palmer Station.  Kasey was part of the Palmer LTER team last winter and…
Wave-carved Iceberg, Western Antarctic Peninsula

#Science Literacy Week and Polar ICE

Check out our new guest blog post on the Arctic Relations website. This post is in support of #Science Literacy Week.  
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Palmer LTER on CBS News

Palmer LTER scientists were on CBS News segment yesterday for Earth Day. Here’s the link !
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Facebook Live at Palmer Station

https://twitter.com/PalmerLTER  
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2018 Antarctica Week

Antarctica Week, 3-7 December 2018 Columbia University is  offering schools an opportunity to talk to a ‘polar expert’ at 10am and 11am local time for around 45 minutes. More details of how it will work are on the ITGC website .  …
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Rutgers Roommates Head for Antarctica to Study Climate Change

Taylor Dodge and Rachael Young, Rutgers University-New Brunswick seniors, are friends, roommates, South Jersey natives – and headed to opposite ends of Antarctica this field season for separate research projects to gather data on the effects…
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University of Virginia Welcomes Palmer LTER Scientist Dr. Scott Doney

Scott Doney recently joined the UVA Department of Environmental Sciences as Professor of Environmental Change.  He introduces himself to the UVA community in this blog post, which places his research into the context of studying the impact…
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Drones at the Long term Ecological Research (LTER) at Palmer Station

The Duke University Marine Lab is the first to win Federal Aviation Administration certification to operate scientific drones and provide training.  Dr. David Johnson, assistant professor of the practice of marine conservation ecology at Duke…
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California student scientists knock it out of the park!

There was a buzz in the air as the students talked through how the ecosystems of Antarctica had changed over time. Were we witnessing a class report on Antarctica that they had looked up on google? No! On February 24, 2017 we were…
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You’re the Expert Podcast with Oscar Schofield is OUT!

Hi Everyone - Please check out Oscar Schofield's podcast with the NPR show You're the Expert.
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Talking about the Sci-I Project with the U.S. Secretary of Education

Pam Gildersleeve-Hernandez, Superintendent/Principal at San Antonio Elementary School, traveled from southern Monterey County, CA to Washington D.C. to talk with the U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. John King, in late October. As one of…