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Banded cliffs rise above barren slopes and a large glacier in the dry valleys of Antarctica. The region forms the coldest, driest, and windiest ecosystems known. (Credit: Michael Gooseff/CU Boulder)

How Earth’s most intense heat wave ever impacted life in Antarctica (CU Boulder Today)

Sept. 4, 2024

An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. Mike Gooseff and Anna Wright were part of a study revealing what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.

Mike Gooseff rows a raft on the Colorado River during field work.

2022 Alumni Awards: Michael Gooseff - MCivEngr’98; PhD’01 (YouTube)

Nov. 22, 2022

Presentation on Michael Gooseff, winner of the 2022 Robert L. Stearns Award, profiles his career as a polar science researcher and educator. Gooseff leads the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research project, chairs the Water Quality Control Commission for the State of Colorado, and was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board on Water Body Connectivity for the Environmental Protection Agency among other leadership and teaching roles.