The biggest ice-and-snow-free region in Antarctica is a desert known as the McMurdo Dry Valleys. These valleys have very low ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences. As Totten Glacier oozes off the ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For decades, scientists have attempted to chart this buried landscape ...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) are a cold desert region of Antarctica supporting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems that host microbial food webs, with few species of primitive animals (like ...

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 ...

Many people think of deserts like the Sahara, but Antarctica receives even less precipitation. Some parts of it, like the ...

Morgan-Kiss and her collaborators are in the second year of a six-year grant to investigate the ecosystems of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a polar desert on the coast of east Antarctica. The McMurdo Long ...

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 ...

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 ...