Approximately 0.3% of Antarctica is perpetually ice free, with the largest single area being the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land. These glacially carved valleys are thought to be some of the ...

Tracking data from Garwood Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, Joseph Levy, a research associate at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics, shows that ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 3 (2014), pp. 811-826 (16 pages) The water of the ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys is derived primarily from glacial melt streams and to a lesser ...

The newest exhibit in the CU Museum of Natural History’s BioLounge takes a deep dive into the Earth’s southernmost continent, beyond the ice, to the ancient Dry Valleys—where CU conducts world-class ...

Former MCM PhD student Anna Bergstrom, pictured here at an Antarctic Family Day event, studies Cryoconite holes in the Dry Valleys. Cryoconite holes are holes in a glacier's surface caused when dirt ...

Many people think of deserts like the Sahara, but Antarctica receives even less precipitation. Some parts of it, like the McMurdo Dry Valleys, have not seen rain for millions of years. Even though ...

Power, graduate student Meredith Snyder, and Professor J.E. “Jeb” Barrett, in Taylor Valley, one of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, in January 2023. Power and Snyder, along with Barrett ...

Romancova, and R. M. Morgan-Kiss. 2014. An integrated study of photochemical function and expression of a key photochemical gene (psbA) in photosynthetic communities of Lake Bonney (McMurdo Dry ...