Posted: Feb 18, 2013 10:06 AM by Suzanne Philippus - MTN News
Updated: Feb 18, 2013 10:07 AM BOZEMAN - Several Montana State
University scientists recently returned from the summer research
season in Antarctica. MTN reporter Suzanne Philippus has a rare
glimpse of what takes place on the ice at the bottom of the
world. A group left Bozeman right before Thanksgiving and we're
in Antarctica until the middle of February. After 37 hours in
the air, traveling over 10,000 miles, the ski-equipped military
cargo plane landed on the southern-most continent in the world.
"In the broadest sense, Antarctica is the place to come to study
global climate change because it's the end member environment,
because it's the coldest place," explained Reed Scherer a
scientist on the Wissard Project. Scientists from across the
world descend upon this vast continent during the Antarctic
summer, for a chance to work in one of the most unique and
minimally disturbed laboratories on earth. From ancient geologic
microbes to climate chang