Most of our research is done at Explorers Cove, Antarctica, which is on the shores of McMurdo Sound (part of the Ross Sea), south of New Zealand. It's near the main American research station, McMurdo, which is on Ross Island.

Explorers Cove operations:

New for November 2003: Follow our field team's current project in the 2003 Cove Diary.

What lives in Explorers Cove? Stuff we care about, and lots more too.

Explorers Cove Datastore: Information about our research sites in Antarctica.

The cold life: how to live in Antarctica.

Home and away: The Bowser lab in Albany and Antarctica.

Cove diaries: Bowser lab, Tina King's experiences, Bob Sanders tells an icy tale.

Antarctic Sun article on our research

Our current project, supported by the NSF Antarctic Program (scroll down to "Seasonal dynamics of giant agglutinated foraminifera", about halfway down.)

As others see us: Other people talking about our work. ABC News talks about foram glue, photographer Norbert Wu dives Under Antarctic Ice (and pays New Harbor, Explorers Cove, and our camp a visit), Congressman Boehlert visits our field camp, UNAVCO support services, Terry Trimingham, Dale Stokes (scroll down to entry 10).

Where is Explorers Cove, anyway?

New images of Ross Sea, December 2002

General information about Antarctica:

United States Antarctic Resource Center

Current McMurdo Station weather report

NOAA photo archive

Another group explores

Robert Holmes on Antarctic experiences past and present

Don't forget our James Eights Resource Pages, for a 19th century explorer's Antarctic tales.