Polar Soils Blog

Antarctica is the most remote continent on the planet, but people have been coming here for over 200 years. The earliest visitors were wh...

A couple days ago we made it to our second sampling site: Signy Island. Signy is at the top of our transect, all the way up at 60 ° S. ...

We have had a busy few days working in the lab to process the samples we collected at Biscoe Point. First, we spent a day at Palm...

Today we made it to our first sampling site!  As you read in an earlier post, we are looking at soil biodiversity at many stops all along ...

We finally made it through the Drake Passage! It was a rough ride, so I’m glad it’s over. Today, we were helping out another project. O...

After about a day of calm sailing out of the Strait of Magellan, we entered the Drake Passage. Boy, has it been quite a ride! Winds have av...

We are at sea! Yesterday, we stowed all of our gear on board our ship, the Laurence M. Gould (or LMG for short). This will be our home f...