Polar Soils Blog

It is time for the Second Annual McMurdo Field Camp Hair Contest! The water restrictions in the dry valleys means that we are not able to sh...

After a full day of weather delays on Saturday (and our wonderful luau), we finally made it back out to F6 on Lake Fryxell. However, the bad...

The weather has been very uncooperative for the past week and a half! It was hard getting everyone back into town after our field work last ...

Nitrogen is the most common element in the atmosphere and the air we breathe (78%), and it is a necessary element for life. It is an importa...

Most people think of Antarctica as being a big, cold, dead place. When you see photos of our research in the dry valleys, you don't see ...

Well, we finally made it out to the field. The weather at McMurdo has been very patchy. There's been snow and a lot of clouds. But, the ...

Because the Dry Valleys are so remote, we fly on helicopters to get there. Today we were supposed to fly to Lake Fryxell and Lake Bonney. Bu...