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News Release 16-124
Season of intense melting in Antarctica offers insights into continent's future
Papers by scientists conducting NSF-funded research document effects of 2001-2002 continent-wide melt, foreshadow impacts of global climate change
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Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Credit: Dave Haney, NSF
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The National Science Foundation's Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Credit: Kurtis Burmeister, NSF
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