Polar Soils Blog

As you've seen from my blog, Antarctica is cold, dry, and gray. But, there's one oasis in this polar desert: the McMurdo Greenhouse....

As we come into late summer here in Antarctica, the sea ice covering the Ross Sea has melted back almost as far as McMurdo. That means that ...

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

We finally made it back to one of the penguin rookeries that we needed to visit. After two days of trying to get to Cape Crozier but being s...

When people think of animals that live in Antarctica, they almost always think of penguins, seals, and whales. And, while those animals do l...

We've been trying for the past two days to get to Cape Crozier, one of the other penguin rookeries we want to sample. But, bad weather s...

We've had a very special guest in town at McMurdo for the past week or two. Sir David Attenborough is down filming for his new nature se...