Polar Soils Blog
Track the adventures in research of soil ecology in Antarctica.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Beautiful Antarctica
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We’ve been moving right along with our sampling. Our original schedule was to sample five locations, with two additional sites that we coul...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Seals galore
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Our research is about soil and the microscopic organisms living in it, but we also get to see a lot of bigger animals that live in Antarcti...
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Katabatic winds
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We’ve been trucking right along with our sampling! Our sampling at Elephant Island was quite a challenge. The katabatic winds coming do...
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Following the footsteps of Shackleton
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Antarctica is the most remote continent on the planet, but people have been coming here for over 200 years. The earliest visitors were wh...
Friday, March 4, 2016
Two more sites
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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. ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Processing samples
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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...
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