Polar Soils Blog

The Drake Passage is the body of water between the southern tip of South America (called Cape Horn) and the northern tip of Antarctica (ess...

We left Palmer yesterday morning, after picking up cargo and some passengers. We headed back up to Livingston Island, where there is a fiel...

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...