Polar Soils Blog

Yesterday we took a boat out to our next field site at Anchorage Island, which is an island near Rothera Station. So it is the farthest nort...

Now that we’ve collected soil samples, we need to extract and identify the organisms living in the soil. We also need to measure the chemist...

We have returned from a 9-day trip out to a few different field camps. We were finally able to start collecting our soil samples! The firs...

We STILL can't get to our field sites. Mars Oasis is too cloudy for the plane to  land. Maybe tomorrow! Instead, today I helped the ma...

Well, our flight was delayed due to bad weather at the field site. Because the plane has to land on a glacier, rather than a proper runway, ...

Happy Antarctica Day! Antarctica Day is celebrated in honor of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty on December 1, 1959. Today is the 55th ...

We finally made it into the field today! The winds from the storm we had over the past couple of days blew the sea ice away from the docking...