Polar Soils Blog

You might remember the field work we were conducting a couple years ago on water tracks. (You can read more about them in my posts from Octo...

I made it back to Phoenix, Arizona last week according to schedule. It was a long journey, taking about 25 hours total. When I got home, I c...

After almost two months at Rothera Station, we have begun the journey back home. We flew from Rothera back to Punta Arenas, Chile. While w...

We've been spending a lot of time on the microscopes looking at our samples. We are interested in the invertebrates living in the soil. ...

People have been coming to the Antarctic for over 100 years. I get to fly down on airplanes and live in heated buildings with electricity, t...

Welcome to 2015! We had a great New Year's Eve. Our day began by visiting Leonie Island, which was our final sampling site. It's a...

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...