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A yellow living unit at an Antarctic ice drill site.

Husker expertise featured in new Antarctic study

November 27, 2023

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Nebraska’s David Harwood answers a question from Jackson Belva during a Geology 125: Frontiers in Antarctic Geosciences course. The class is based on Harwood’s experience in Antarctica. He returns this season as a principal investigator in the National Science Foundation-funded SALSA project.

Harwood to help lead new Antarctic drilling project

November 29, 2021

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David Harwood

Can United Nations conference save Antarctic glaciers?

November 29, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska’s David Harwood answers a question from Jackson Belva during a Geology 125: Frontiers in Antarctic Geosciences course. The class is based on Harwood’s experience in Antarctica. He returns this season as a principal investigator in the National Science Foundation-funded SALSA project.

Harwood’s Antarctica discovery surfaces in Nature

January 18, 2019

Nebraska's David Harwood

Nebraska team to help tap ecosystems beneath Antarctic ice sheet

December 10, 2018

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Studies: Ice melt from CO2 increase could raise sea level 100 feet

February 22, 2016

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UNL drillers Daren Blythe and Dar Gibson shovel snow into a melter that provides water for the hot water drill that melted a hole through 800 meters of ice on top of subglacial Lake Whillans.

UNL drill powers discovery of microbes under Antarctic ice

August 25, 2014

SCINI team members Bob Zook (left) and Alex Wilke work with an electronic component of the new Deep-SCINI remote operated vehicle. The team plans to deploy the new underwater robot in October.

Team to build deep-water robot for Antarctic exploration

July 29, 2014

Image from the 625-mile, 14-day traverse from McMurdo Station to the Lake Whillans drill site.

WISSARD named a top science story of 2013

December 17, 2013

ANDRILL's roving hot water drill is on the ground in Antarctica at McMurdo Station on Ross Island. McMurdo Sound and the Transarctic Mountains on the Antarctic mainland are in the background.

ANDRILL team prepping drill at McMurdo Station

December 3, 2013

UNL drillers at McMurdo Station last December before their deployment with the history-making WISSARD project. From left: Jeff Lemerey, Daren Blythe, Dar Gibson, Dennis Duling, Chad Carpenter, Graham Roberts and Justin Burnett. All are scheduled to redeploy to the ice this season along with a new crew member, Nathan Bowker.

ANDRILL project is a 'go' despite shutdown delay

October 30, 2013

ANDRILL to deploy two drills for 2013-14 season

September 18, 2013