During late December of 2004 and early January of 2005, Ina Timling (University of Alaska–Fairbanks) participated in an expedition that first took her to the extreme southern end of Argentina (the city of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego), then to the South Shetland Islands (Aitcho Island, Livingston Island and Cuverville Island) and finally to the Almirante Brown region of the Antarctic Peninsula. In Tierra del Fuego, samples of dead plant material for laboratory isolation of all three groups of mycetozoans were obtained from an alpine area (‘De Glaciar’) west of Ushuaia. Similar sets of samples were collected from both the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. / Dscn0444.jpg

Tierra del Fuego , the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula