Polar Soils Blog

I've spent the past five days in the dry valleys. As you've heard, we were weather-delayed getting out there. Then weather delayed m...

We finally got a small enough window in the bad weather for me to get out to the field yesterday. Now I'm back at Lake Fryxell. The work...

After 4 days at station working in the lab, we were supposed to be going back to the field today. But we have yet another bad-weather day th...

Our other two group members, Ross and Julia, arrived yesterday in Antarctica. Our group is now complete! We've been very busy working in...

Jen and I finally made it back to McMurdo Station! We got stuck at Fryxell camp for a couple of days. The weather over McMurdo was bad, so t...

Most people think of Antarctica as being a big, barren land with no animals or plants living on it. That is not true! In fact, there are pla...

Merry Christmas from Lake Hoare, Taylor Valley, Antarctica! Before we left F6 to come to Lake Hoare, Santa and his elves came to visit us by...