Certain places on Earth seem far too extreme to support life, but that assumption is far from true. Rather, life apparently has a habit of finding a way.

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 ...

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 ...

Antarctica’s Blood Falls is a mysterious crimson flow in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, discovered in 1911 by geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor. The bright red water seeping from the glacier into the ...

She currently works with the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER), and her research focuses on understanding carbon processes in Antarctic glacial melt streams and ...

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 ...

I am a Ph.D. student researching glacier melting and stream hydrology in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, throughout the Holocene and late Pleistocene. My passion for Earth sciences is inspired by ...