With final preparations done at McMurdo Station, the 2025-2026 NSF COLDEX field team is very close to deploying to our deep field site at the Allan Hills! Read more about what it’s taken them to get to this point.

The NSF COLDEX 2025-2026 field team has made it to McMurdo Station! After a week’s worth of travel, trainings, and delays, the team has finally arrived in Antarctica, where they have been settling in and putting the final touches on their field camp deployment.

NSF COLDEX is gearing up for another field season to Antarctica. This year, a team of our scientists and drillers are heading back to the Allan Hills, where ice as old as 6 million years has been found. Learn more about the area, the work we’ll be doing there, and who is going in our first 2025-2026 field season blog post!