05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Christopher J. Carson, a senior Antarctic geoscientist with Geoscience Australia in Canberra, makes his way across Eliza Kate Island northeast of Stornes Peninsula. Carson and Edward S. Grew, a research professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine in Orono, ...
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Reflection of nearby hills can be seen on the calm surface of Lake Ferris in the evening. This view is looking northeast from a camp on Stornes Peninsula that was set up by researchers studying minerals in the Larsemann Hills in Antarctica. In November 2003, Edward S. Grew, a research professor ...
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Researchers studying minerals in the Larsemann Hills set up their camp on Stornes Peninsula. This view, taken facing north, was taken after the researchers returned to camp from a traverse. For several days, approach to camp was blocked by rising water from nearby Lake Ferris that necessitated a ...
05/08/2015 01:05 PM EDT
U.S. Presidents on the advance of science, from Harry S Truman to Barack Obama. May 10, 1950--Congress passed, and President Truman signed, Public Law 81-507, creating NSF.
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Worm-like intergrowth of the borosilicate tourmaline (black) and quartz (gray) can be seen in this granitic pegmatite sample from the northern Stornes Peninsula. The yellowish-pink mineral is microcline feldspar. Pegmatites are igneous rocks that contain crystals and sometimes contain minerals ...
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
The yellow-orange phosphate mineral Wagnerite in a matrix of biotite mica, the borosilicate prismatine, cordierite and oxides. This sample of schistose granulite was taken from the base of Gneiss Peak on the northern Stornes Peninsula. The sample was collected as part of a research study of ...
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Blue prisms of the borosilicate grandidierite in gneiss with the aluminosilicate sillimanite (white prisms) and the borosilicate tourmaline (dark) can be seen in this sample from the Wilcock Bay area on the southern Stornes Peninsula. The sample was collected as part of a research study of ...
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Christopher J. Carson, a senior Antarctic geoscientist with Geoscience Australia in Canberra, walks on sea ice in Barry Jones Bay, west of Stornes Peninsula, Antarctica. An iceberg is to his right. Carson and Edward S. Grew, a research professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at ...
05/08/2015 05:05 AM EDT
Christopher J. Carson, a senior Antarctic geoscientist with Geoscience Australia in Canberra, stands in a steep depression partially filled with drifting snow. This view, facing north towards Johnston Bay in western Stornes Peninsula, illustrates the ruggedness of the Larsemann Hills, where Carson ...
05/08/2015 01:05 PM EDT
Excerpt from President Harry S Truman's State of the Union Address, January 4, 1950
05/08/2015 01:05 PM EDT
NSF staff take time out to thank a teacher who challenged, supported and encouraged them toward a career path in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
05/08/2015 01:05 PM EDT
Excerpt from President Harry S Truman's State of the Union Address, January 4, 1950.
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