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Professor William Detrich works in the Marine Science Center, in Nahant, Massachusetts, on June 15, 2015. Photo: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Antarctica is no longer the cool place it used to be for its cold-adapted fish. So what changed?

Northeastern professor William Detrich has visited Antarctica so many times that an island on the continent is named after him. His latest odyssey is documented in “Expedition Antarctica,” a YouTube series that chronicles his team’s journey and research discoveries.

by Khalida Sarwari - contributor October 29, 2018

Five things people get wrong about Antarctica

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Gusts of wind blowing across a vast, empty tundra? Droves of penguins dancing and sliding across the ice like the ones in Disney’s Happy Feet? Well, all of that is wrong, according to Jake Grondin, a third-year Northeastern biology student who has been working on the vastly misunderstood continent since May.

by Sophia Fox-Sowell September 25, 2018

Antarctic island named after Northeastern professor

William Detrich has been making research trips to Palmer Station in Antarctica for more than 30 years. Now, in recognition of his notable discoveries, a small island less than a mile away from the research facility has been commemoratively named after him.

by Greg St. Martin March 2, 2016

First genome of an Antarctic notothenioid fish sequenced

Northeastern is part of an international research team that has sequenced the first genome of an Antarctic notothenioid fish. The breakthrough will shed light on the animal's unique evolutionary adaptation to freezing waters.

by Greg St. Martin November 10, 2014

Antarctic co-op: The mission

This is a guest blog post by Eileen Sheehan, a biochemistry student at Northeastern University who is on co-op at Palmer Station, Antarctica. She will…

by Angela Herring May 9, 2014

Antarctica is no longer the cool place it used to be for its cold-adapted fish. So what changed?

Five things people get wrong about Antarctica

Antarctic island named after Northeastern professor

First genome of an Antarctic notothenioid fish sequenced

Antarctic co-op: The mission

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