And even more wet feet day. Water is forming everywhere now, with rivers and lakes all across our way. We had to open up new routes on the glacier today to avoid wading until our hips in ice water. And of course the lake keeps… Read More »Another wet feet day
During our water sampling we have to rinse our syringes before the actual sampling. Someone clearly seemed to enjoy the process while hanging on a rope down a water filled moulin.
A search image for the weekend: Can you find my orange mooring close to the glacier front? I’m actually surprised that it is still in the original place after 11 days of heavy calving, loads of waves and strong winds. Let’s hope that it will… Read More »Spot the mooring!
The wind is still blowing quite heavy today and expected to become even worse tomorrow. We still managed to do some water sampling close to the glacier front and even opened a new sampling station close to the Kronebreen front. Now we are sampling both… Read More »Fjord sampling day
And another day in the Arctic. Today we had a bigger team out in the field, as we were joined by two planetologists who normally study landforms on Mars but were interested to learn more about our lake. The snow pack becomes softer every day,… Read More »Expect the unexpected
Yesterday we finally managed to get out in the field early, leaving town already at 10:30 in the morning (there is always a lot to prepare before going out in the field). The logistics person on watch was very happy to see us leave early,… Read More »Getting out in the field early
How crap gets up the mountain or how much are you willing to suffer for your data?
Late night laser scan. At the moment we seem to mainly do night shifts up there. There is always so much stuff to prepare in the mornings (e.g. programming 20 timelapse cameras) that we only make it out around lunch time. Then a 16 km… Read More »Late night work
Four days ago we concluded that there was absolutely no way how we could get the laser scanner and the necessary 50 or so kg up the glacier. Well, one evening with a couple of beers later we felt quite confident that we could do… Read More »Hangover aftereffects
To get to our water sampling location close to the glacier front yesterday, we had to drive through 5 km of dense brush ice. Basically no open water at all. Just ice everywhere, as the glaciers had a couple of days with pretty strong activity.… Read More »Increasing water temperatures