Image

Summer Scenery

August 30, 2013

The sights of summer in Antarctica invariably include ice. Researcher Emelia DeForce captured this image of a well-worn iceberg in January 2013, the height of austral summer during a cruise in early 2013. DeForce was aboard the National Science Foundation research vessel Laurence M. Gould near Palmer Station on the western Antarctic peninsula as part of a team investigating how global climate change is affecting the Antarctic ecosystem.(Photo by Emelia Deforce, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)