Polar Soils Blog

Well... we were all geared up to leave for Antarctica today, but nature did not cooperate.  Dr. Hannah ready to brave the weather in her INA...

We are in our last day of quarantine! Tomorrow we leave Punta Arenas, Chile and fly to Escudero Base to begin our field work! Base Escudero ...

We have been in Punta Arenas for a few days. We are in quarantine until we go to Antarctica. Everyone is being very careful to make sure COV...

We have arrived in Punta Arenas! We left Santiago very early in the morning, and landed in Punta Arenas just in time for a late breakfast. C...

We have started our journey to Escudero Base in Antarctica! The journey will take us over a week. First, we have to travel to Chile. Here is...

 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...