Polar Soils Blog

For a long time, Antarctica was an unknown continent. In the 1400's and 1500's, Antarctica was just a hypothesis. So, at the time th...

We have been busy working in the field to set up our main experiment. This is an important way that we can study the plant-soil feedbacks d...

Because I study soil, I talk a lot about the microscopic organisms that live in soil. But there are, of course, other, big animals that spen...

Antarctica is a harsh continent, so only specialized organisms survive here. These are species that evolved to withstand the freezing temper...

To collect our soil and plant samples, we use a corer. That's a piece of metal pipe that is in Hannah's hand in the photo below. Tha...

The Collins Glacier here on King George Island has been shrinking. The edge of the glacier has receded back further than it was even just a ...

When we woke up today, we found that the weather is very rainy and foggy. There will be no field work today! It is not safe to leave the bas...