Polar Soils Blog

Mike and I flew across the lake yesterday. From the helicopter, we got a great view of one of the glaciers that comes into the valley! Glaci...

This is our second full day in the field. The weather is much nicer. It is just above freezing outside, and very sunny! Yesterday, it was co...

It snowed here Thursday night! It was only a dusting, but that's a lot of snow for this area. The bad weather did not keep us from getti...

So far, we've been at our "home base" of McMurdo Station, which is on Ross Island. So, right now, we're technically not si...

Yesterday I went to Snow School. This is a camping trip where we learn survival skills to help us when we're out in the field. Antarctic...

Here are some pictures from the area around McMurdo: In the background you see Mt. Erebus , the most active volcano on Antarctica. You can ...

We have arrived on Antarctica! Friday morning we left New Zealand on a US Air Force C-17 airplane (crewed by the awesome 62d Airlift Wing fr...