"Mysterious Mountains" and Warmest Year

I've been absent from the blog lately, but I'll have a few more materials trickling in this summer. Nonetheless, polar science and outreach remain strong throughout the year. Here's some recent news:

--Mysterious Mountains Hidden Beneath Antarctic Ice Revealed at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference happening this week (the things that get me the most are the liquid lakes that lie beneath a one- to two-mile thick ice sheet).

--South Pole Has Warmest Year on Record
(On a related note, read my Q&A with South Pole meteorologist Tim Markle. Tim recently experienced temperatures below -100 degrees Fahrenheit in April, which is very early in the year for the Pole to be that cold; 2009 was also Earth's second warmest year on record.)

Dan Satterfield and I are also presenting about Antarctic science at the American Meteorological Society's 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology in two weeks. Should be fun! More soon ...