Polar Soils Blog

 Our field work for this project will be on the Antarctic Peninsula, which is the part of the continent that sticks up towards South America...

In my last post, we talked about "plant-soil feedbacks". I showed you some of the plants that live at our field site. When they gr...

Last week I wrote about the new project we are starting this year in Antarctica. We will study the changes that happen to the ecosystem as g...

The New Year is bringing some new adventures for our research team in 2022. We are starting a new research project in Antarctica!  The topic...

It's been almost a year since our last group of students traveled to the Arctic for the BioArt course. Things were very busy when we got...

We are at the end of our stay at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Students have been collecting their last bits of data. Yesterday, they pres...

We have been at the research station for over a week now, and we only have a couple more days left before it's time for us to leave. The...