Polar Soils Blog

Today we went back to Nelson Island, which is "next door" to the island we're currently on. Base Escudero is on King George Is...

 We've spent the past couple of days working on samples from a new field site. One of our main goals for this project is to measure plan...

We have continued to work diligently on our sampling. On Tuesday we collected samples from our transplant plots, and we have spent a lot of ...

 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...