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‘Scherer’ beauty: Blog by NIU geology professor chronicles life, historic...
A lounging Weddell seal, wandering Adelie penguin, stark white landscapes, the Transantarctic Mountains and lots of scientists in action. All of that and more can be found on this micro-blog created by...
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Life on, and beneath, the ice
NIU geology major Brian Guthrie in Antarctica. Brian Guthrie, a senior NIU geology major, says his recent experience in the Antarctic as part of a major research team was, well, out of this world. The...
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NIU’s Antarctic-bound robotic submarine making its maiden voyage at Lake Tahoe
NIU Ph.D. student Tim Hodson works with DOER engineers preparing the robotic submarine instrumentation for testing. Northern Illinois University’s 28-foot-long, 2,200-pound robotic submarine, built for...
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Federal shutdown imperils Antarctic research
The government shutdown has put in jeopardy the upcoming field season for the U.S. Antarctic Program – a potentially major blow to dozens of research projects nationwide, including a large-scale...
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Fallout from government shutdown: Antarctic season canceled for NIU...
NIU geologists Ross Powell and Reed Scherer in the Antarctic earlier this year. The government shutdown was resolved last week, but it wasn’t soon enough to save a multimillion-dollar NIU research...
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World-renowned scientist Richard Alley to speak Oct. 17 at NIU
Richard Alley Richard Alley, a riveting speaker and one of the most famous climate scientists of our time, will visit NIU this month to give a public talk on the impact that fossil fuels have had on...
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Exploring the unseen West Antarctic coastline
[vsw id=”oVtlIB-EbXg” source=”youtube” width=”425″ height=”344″ autoplay=”no”] The coastline, or grounding zone, where the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet atop land meets the Ross Sea, is considered...
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NIU students preparing to leave for Antarctic
Jason Coenen It’s a continent of extremes, boasting arguably the harshest environment on the planet. And it will become a research laboratory for three NIU geology students who will arrive in...
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NIU researchers, students part of exciting Antarctic discovery
NIU Geology Professor Reed Scherer holds a sediment samplerecovered from the grounding zone. Credit: WISSARD Using a specially designed hot-water drill to cleanly bore through a half mile of ice, a...
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NIU geologists appear on Chicago Tonight
Having just returned from a highly successful research expedition in Antarctica, NIU geologists Ross Powell and Reed Scherer appeared as guests during Tuesday evening’s broadcast of Chicago Tonight on...
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Tales from a shrinking continent
Reed Scherer Antarctica is melting, according to evidence brought back to Illinois by NIU Geology professor Reed Scherer and his students. At the next STEM Café, Scherer will discuss his Antarctic...
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Big ice, big science, tiny fossils
Reed Scherer Reed Scherer’s doctoral research set out to test a radical hypothesis put forth in the 1970s that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet “collapsed” during the interglacial period that immediately...
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