Polar Soils Blog

After a long set of flights, we arrived this afternoon in Punta Arenas, Chile! Punta Arenas is in the southern end of Chile, on the Strait o...

Today, we begin our trip down to Antarctica for our next field season! We will continue our work on glacial succession sites, to better unde...

After a very long journey, we are finally back home in the U.S.  I spent about 25 hours in airports and airplanes to get home. I left Punta ...

We have spent the past two days in Punta Arenas organizing our cargo and samples for shipment back to the U.S. When we landed in the Herc, a...

It’s a good thing we packed all of our gear yesterday! We were scheduled to return to Chile on Tuesday on an Air Force plane. However, Chile...

Our work is coming to a close! We have completed our field work, and collected all of our samples. We have been working hard in the lab for ...

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...