Polar Soils Blog

 We finally made it to Base Escudero, our home in Antarctica for the next couple of weeks! I haven't posted until now because we have be...

 We have boarded a plane to leave Punta Arenas! They wouldn’t get us this far if they didn’t think we had a good chance of landing. So, fing...

We have spent the past two days in Punta Arenas on weather delay. It can be very boring, because we’re not allowed to go far from our hotels...

As we suspected, we did not fly to Antarctica today. We are on a weather delay, meaning we can’t take off until the weather improves. Weathe...

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...