Media Category: MCM

Morgan Wood and Abigail Borgmeier taking soil samples in the Dry Valleys.

Morgan Wood and Abigail Borgmeier taking soil samples in the Dry Valleys

The wormherders team out in the field!

Dr. Diana Wall running an experiment on the impact of water addition to the soil fauna (photo credit: Dr. Byron Adams). This is the same experiment that we are sampling in the following image!

Dr. Sarah Power taking field notes in front of a snow patch. You can see dark biocrust growing along the edge of the snowpack.

Meredith Snyder (left) and Dr. Jesse Jorna (right) having fun while sampling in the Fryxell Basin.

Dr. Sarah Power (right) and Meredith Snyder (left) sampling in the Dry Valleys. This photo shows the microtopography of the dry valleys. The polygon cracks (bottom left) accumulate salt and moisture.

Photo of biocrust in the Dry Valleys. The biocrust is the dark grey/black colored material on top of lighter soil.

Map of Antarctica. The Dry Valleys are circled in red on the map of Antarctica. The Fryxell Basin, where Dr. Power’s study was conducted, is shown in the image on the right.

Field crew at the MCM LTER.