Polar Soils Blog

We flew back to McMurdo today. We had finished the work we needed to do during our first week in the field. Now, we're back at "hom...

Today Mike and I hiked up another elevation transect to measure changes in soil chemistry with increasing elevation. So we are very tired ag...

Well, it's Christmas on Antarctica! Santa Clause did not forget us, even though we're so far from home! He brought me a little stuff...

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...