In early 2019, I was invited to participate in a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project studying seaweed population ecology and genetics on the Ross Sea Ice Shelf near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. After years of delays caused by COVID, climate-driven changes to the ice shelf, and infrastructure limitations, a small team finally deployed to McMurdo Station from early October through early December, 2025.

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Over nearly eight weeks on the continent, I had the opportunity - above and below the ice -  to document the science, natural history, and daily life in and around McMurdo Station.