Polar Soils Blog

Today we spent some time inspecting moss species at one of our main research sites. This is a great way to see some of the soil organisms th...

When most people think of Antarctica, they think of penguins. They are certainly the most popular Antarctic animal. So, of course I have to ...

Everybody of course loves penguins and seals, who are the most famous Antarctic animals. But there are a lot of other animals that don't...

Yesterday we had some very nice weather! It was foggy and misty, but there was no rain and very little wind. Antarctica is a very windy cont...

We have had a productive day of sampling! We visited a new site on Nelson Island, which is nearby to the peninsula where the research statio...

The weather here at Escudero hasn't been very good, so we've had to mostly stay indoors for the past couple of days. We've had a...

The main research goal for our project is to understand how plants and soil interact with each other during ecological succession. After a g...