Polar Soils Blog

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. For the holiday, I hiked from F6 with the Stream Team to Lake Hoare, where everyone in Taylor Valley ...

One of the most noticeable features of the soil in the dry valleys are the strange shapes that cover the ground. These are most noticeable w...

A helicopter delivered a package to F6 camp. It was our new outhouse! At the camps in the dry valleys, there is no plumbing. All of our wast...

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 ...