Polar Soils Blog

Remember all of those boxes that we packed our frozen samples in while we were at the warehouse in Punta Arenas? They have just arrived h...

We are pack in Punta Arenas, Chile now. We docked about 8:00 this morning. Now that we're back in Chile, the work is not over! Today Uff...

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...