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Resource Type
Article
Region
Antarctic
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All Aged
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Eric Betz
Topic
General Earth Science
General Life Science
Life Science
Earth Science
Organisms and Their Environments
Paleoscience
Paleoscience

Researcher Egbert Schwartz and PolarTREC teacher Justin Kendhammer will travel to the Dry Valleys of Antarctica in search of life in the seemingly barren soil. One of the questions they will attempt to answer is whether microbes in the soil are native to Antarctic soil or whether they have been blown onto the continent from elsewhere in the world.

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