Polar Soils Blog

Four days left before I leave for Antarctica! We are busily packing up everything we'll need for our 2 months of field work. A lot of wh...

We have just a couple more weeks here at Dartmouth before we leave for Antarctica! Katie and I will leave Dartmouth on December 6, which mea...

Welcome to another field season of research in Antarctica with the Dartmouth polar soils research group! If you are new to the Polar Soils b...

For fun the last week, a few of us went kayaking across the fjord, and we saw a ptarmigan with 9 youngsters. (click here to learn more abou...

Well, the 3rd week offered us something different! Our course contracted a small ship, the M/S Stockholm out of Gotenburg Sweden, for three...

There are many tourist ships, and people come here to see glaciers and ice and the many beautiful flowers and mosses, the large numbers of b...

I have been giving the news, but thought a bit of background might be helpful. Svalbard became Norwegian territory in 1925, though the Russi...