Polar Soils Blog

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from Palmer Station! We're done with field work, so we've been using our time to wrap things up in t...

Yesterday we arrived back at Palmer Station. We'll be taking on some cargo and people that need to get back to Punta Arenas with us. Whi...

We traveled to Cape Evensen, which is an extra site that we added to our trip. Because we were so far ahead of schedule, we got permission t...

Since we can’t do science today, I thought I’d tell you a bit about life on the LMG. We live and work on the research vessel. I’ve told...

We’ve been moving right along with our sampling. Our original schedule was to sample five locations, with two additional sites that we coul...

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...

We’ve been trucking right along with our sampling! Our sampling at Elephant Island was quite a challenge. The katabatic winds coming do...