Polar Soils Blog

It is 2009 down here at McMurdo! We returned from the field on New Year's Eve. We quickly unpacked and took care of all of our samples f...

A very important part of doing research out in the field is staying well fed. All of the food we bring out with us to the Dry Valleys comes ...

We flew back to McMurdo Station from Lake Fryxell two days ago. That ended our first week of field work. During the past two days in town, w...

To celebrate Christmas, we went to another camp nearby on Lake Hoare to be with several other science groups working in Taylor Valley. Chris...

We have been at the Lake Fryxell Camp for a few days now. There are a few permanent buildings here. The circular building is called a Jamesw...

Soil in the dry valleys of Antarctica is a hard place to live. It is very cold and very dry. There's not a lot of water available, and m...

This morning we flew from McMurdo Station to Lake Fryxell in Taylor Valley. We left from the helicopter pad at McMurdo, where they loaded al...