Dale Andersen

"Within our solar system there are two worlds where rock and ice and chilling winds rule bleak landscapes. Once both were warmer, and rivers wandered through valleys where today the highest temperatures just barely pass t...

While camped in the mountains of Queen Maud Land, we did have some challenging weather. A few times the winds hit close to 100 mph at the camp causing white-out and near white-out conditions. This is a small example.......

During the PLRP field season of 2009, Dr. Ian Hawes and I made several night dives. Here you can see Ian exploring the microbiaites, searching for grazers such as amphipods and snails that might have an impact upon the ov...

Ctenophores, or comb row jellies, are among the most beautiful creatures in the ocean, with the rows of luminescent cilia. Beroe cucumis may reach lengths up to 15 cm. Filmed in McMurdo Sound near Hut Point.

I shot this short video just off of Arrival Heights near McMurdo Station in Antarctica in the early 1990's. This particular dive was made early in the season when the water was still very cold, clear and the anchor ice wa...

Underwater video taken with my Sony PMW-EX1 in a Gates Housing of ongoing research in Pavilion Lake. Dr. Ian Hawes is seen measuring photosynthetic competency within the microbialite structures. The instrument he is using...