Polar Soils Blog

The research project we are working on is a collaboration between the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and the Chilean Antarctic Institute (or ...

Today we spent some time in the warehouse collecting our gear to stay warm and dry while in Antarctica. The U.S. Antarctic Program stocked u...

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...