Polar Soils Blog

It has been a busy time on base these past few days. We have a big ship in port, called the James Clark Ross.   This ship brings in relie...

The Larsen Ice Shelf is a huge piece of ice that sits on the other side of the Antarctic Peninsula from Rothera Station. It is divided into ...

Christmas was very festive here at Rothera Station. One Christmas Eve, everyone on station gathered together after dinner to sing carols, dr...

There are a lot of neat creatures living in the ocean around Antarctica: not just whales, seals, and penguins! There’s quite a diversity of ...

Most of the scientists that work from Rothera Station study either ice or the ocean. There are not many soil scientists. One of the question...

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...