Polar Soils Blog

So far, the research I've done in Antarctica has been out of McMurdo Station. That's on the side of the continent closest to New Zea...

Are you interested in polar science? Are you curious about how polar ecosystems work and what kind of change is happening in them? Do you li...

In my previous post, you see two different photos of moss in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. In one photo, the moss is green. In the other, it'...

I've posted before about some of our field work sampling moss in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.  Moss are important to understand becaus...

A lot of our field work tries to answer the question of how extra nutrients (like carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) affect soil bi...

During my field seasons, I blog about the field work we are conducting and the samples we collect. What do we do with all of the information...

Much of my research in Antarctica has been through the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research project (abbreviated ...