Polar Soils Blog

All sorts of organisms live in the soil all over the world. When you walk on the ground, you're walking on thousands and thousands of cr...

We've been working hard in the lab. We're processing our samples that we collected in the field from the elevation transects. The sa...

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...