Polar Soils Blog

Today I flew back to the camp at F6 on Lake Fryxell in Taylor Valley. Because there were two stops we needed to make before dropping me at F...

Friday evening I returned to McMurdo Station from Cape Royds. In Antarctic lingo, we call that going back to "Mactown." There, I m...

Yesterday evening I left Lake Fryxell and flew to Cape Royds, one of the penguin rookeries on Ross Island. While I am here, I will be measur...

This is my second day of field work in the dry valleys. Today I was sampling along stream edges for moss. I've been sampling moss for a ...

Today I left McMurdo Station and headed to the dry valleys to being my field work. Every time I go between McMurdo and my field sites in the...

There are a lot of reasons that working in Antarctica can be dangerous. It's cold, windy, and very isolated. One danger that is not as o...

I've spent the past couple of days at McMurdo Station setting up our lab and prepping for the field. McMurdo is the largest of the three...