Matt Siegfried, a physical glaciologist and new assistant professor of geophysics at Colorado School of Mines, is currently in Antarctica contributing to the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project, and his work, to service one of the continent's remote GPS stations, was featured by the Gizmodo news site Earther. Funded by the National Science Foundation, SALSA aims to improve understanding of the interactions between the Antarctic ice sheet and the recently discovered rivers and lakes that exist beneath the ice. In December, a team of 50 scientists, support and technical ....