Polar Soils Blog

I usually post about the results of our experiments as they are published. This time, I don't have to post, because it was covered by a ...

In the past, I have posted about working in the penguin rookeries. Most people associate penguins with ice and water, but Adélie penguins ne...

While we were in Antarctica earlier this year, we were able to do some of the analyses we need to measure on the soil we collected. However,...

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. ...