Polar Soils Blog

Katie and I have successfully arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand! Our flights were long, but relatively easy. Travel to Antarctica is alwa...

My travel to Antarctica has begun! I'm currently on the bus heading to the airport. Keep your fingers crossed that the weather cooperate...

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...