Polar Soils Blog

Our final team member, Ross, arrived Saturday night. So, we are now a complete group of 4 from Dartmouth! Together, we've spent the past...

The plants and animals that live in the Dry Valleys are very small. Because they are so small, they are often difficult to locate, and even ...

This morning, Katie and I flew to the Lake Bonney basin for another two days of field work. While we are here, we will be working on a proje...

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...