Polar Soils Blog
Track the adventures in research of soil ecology in Antarctica.
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Return to Chile
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On Thursday, we packed up the rest of our research at Escudero Base and began the journey home. Our flight back to Chile was on a chinstrap ...
Friday, March 11, 2022
Research wrap-up
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We spent our last week finishing our research projects. One of the final projects we've been working on is Dr. Angelica's climate wa...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Photosynthesis & respiration
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We have been busy working on our research projects. We completed our transplant experiment, which we like to call our little garden. We have...
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Mesozoic Antarctica
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Antarctica hasn't always been the cold, icy continent that it is now. In the Mesozoic Era, 60-250 million years ago, Antarctica was lus...
Monday, February 28, 2022
A history of exploration
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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...
Friday, February 25, 2022
Antarctic gardening
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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...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Birds on the Antarctic Peninsula
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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...
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