Polar Soils Blog

We've begun our journey south! Jenn and I are on the bus to Boston now. The first leg of the trip has begun.

We're all packed up to go! Tomorrow morning Jennifer and I start our 5-day journey to Antarctica. First, we fly commercially to Christch...

We are at the one-week mark! We leave for Antarctica on December 11, exactly one week from today. I'm finishing all of the labwork that ...

Welcome to another field season of research in Antarctica with the Dartmouth polar soils research group! We are making preparations to leave...

We've been back at Dartmouth for about a month, now. Our soil and moss samples have been shipped from Antarctica so that we can continue...

Well, the field season is officially over! We have closed up the lab. We have shipped all of our samples. We've packed up our belongings...

The dry valleys are a very sensitive ecosystem. Because it's such a harsh place for organisms to live, they do not grow very fast. We do...