Polar Soils Blog

Today was our last day of field work. (We are scheduled to leave Escudero on Monday!) Our main task was to take down an experiment we set up...

Today is Angelica's birthday!  Last night, we decorated the dining room so that she would wake up to a festive birthday celebration. In ...

Yesterday was a banner day for Hannah! First, she had the TRUE Antarctic field work experience! We were able to go back to Carlini to finish...

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...