Polar Soils Blog

The past couple of days, Mike and I have been doing field work out at Lake Bonney. The weather has been very sunny for the past couple of da...

Most people think of Antarctica as being cold, snowy, and ice-covered. While that is true for some parts of Antarctica (like, the South Pole...

Happy New Year, from the bottom of the planet! Here's the first photo of 2008: This is the ice-covered Ross Sea and the Royal Society Ra...

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...