Polar Soils Blog

Yesterday, all four of us went to Cape Royds where there is an Adelie penguin rookery. Adelie (pronounced uh- dell -ee) penguins are one of ...

Today, Julia and I went to the Lake Bonney basin to take some measurements on the stoichiometry plots. This is the experiment I posted about...

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...