The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — A new e-book will describe Montana State University researchers' long-term study of Weddell seals in Antarctica. Two MSU professors Jay Rotella and Emeritus Robert Garrot have been ...

Researchers outfitted the seals with Conductivity Temperature Depth-Satellite Relay Dive Loggers, which collected a total of 8,913 days of behavioral data from 59adult seals. The data shed light on ...

Researchers attach devices to the heads of unconscious seals to gather data regarding the movement of these creatures.

Antarctica is the coldest, driest continent on Earth. As a result, it is virtually uninhabited by humans. At the same time, it contains much of the world's ice and freshwater. Among many of the ...

A decades-long research project in Antarctica spearheaded by Montana State University ecologists recently received $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. The five-year grant from the NSF — ...

TOKYO, March 1 – A seal wearing a helmet with an antenna might look unusual, but eight Weddell seals, each with a 580g monitoring device on their heads, have been helping Japanese researchers survey ...

Oceanographers have great difficulty conducting investigations by ship in Antarctic continental shelf areas where ice is attached to the shore, so a team of researchers have replaced these boat-based ...

Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice. This time, however, her team began the expedition during the Antarctic winter, the harshest ...

Oceanographers are using seals to investigate Antarctic continental shelves, which are virtually unreachable by ship because they are covered with landfast ice. Antarctica’s continental shelves are ...