Polar Soils Blog

Aside from our measurements and samples that we take in the field, we have a few other pieces of equipment we use in the field to learn abou...

Happy New Year! It's already 2013 here in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Our entire crew is finally all together at Lake Bonney camp. We had a...

Yesterday we moved to a different field camp further inland at Lake Bonney. Here, we will be sampling another water track. So, today, we tra...

We are now at Lake Hoare camp sampling water tracks. My role is to measure soil respiration on the water tracks. That means I'm measur...

We finally made it to the field! The weather yesterday was very nice, so we were able to fly across McMurdo sound to the Dry Valleys! First,...

Well, we never made it to the field. The weather didn't clear up enough to be safe for flying until after the holiday break began. That ...

We were scheduled to fly this morning to New Harbor, but we woke up to falling snow. This is what it looks like at McMurdo Station right now...