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.
Article describing teacher Laura Lukes' hands-on teaching experiences and her 2011 expedition with an international group of two dozen students at Kangerlussuaq Field School in Greenland.