July 2021

Well, what shall I say?

More crap up the glacier. Looks like we are still not done installing our equipment everywhere on the glacier. We spent the entire day yesterday to get a seismometer up on the ice. And of course, the equipment wasn’t really designed for deployment in summertime.… Read More »Time to get more crap up

We are looking for moulins. Following the water along the glacier surface until it disappears under the snow close to the glacier front. Léo jumped on top of the snow depression, trying to break the snow plug, hoping to open up one of the several… Read More »Looking for moulins

Far too much wind to go out on Saturday, but Sunday was good. We were asked to give another group a lift to one of the islands in the fjord. Driving out there with 10 persons and a lot of gear on the boat, felt… Read More »Installing antennas

We are up to no good. Our team size increased yesterday. Now we are a team of seven, ready to run up and down the glacier. We also received a palette full of toys, which arrived by boat on Wednesday. 25 beautiful drifters (wait until… Read More »Reinforcement arrived

The water is still going up. No indication for drainage yet. We went back again. Going for more water sampling. This time accompanied by a freshwater ecologist, sampling for DNA, isotopes and gas that might be released by the lake into the atmosphere. Very curious… Read More »Time for DNA work

Another long day a the lake. Yet again, more water and more uplift of the ice. We’ve been running four kilometers of radar profiles over the floating ice, hoping over loads of crevasses. Looks like the lake is 50-60 m deep in places. The files… Read More »Running the radar snake

Not much can happen in less than 20 hours. Yeah, sure. Coming back to the lake one day later and again massive changes. More tabular icebergs with other icebergs on top. And of course more water. I start to wonder if the water will soon… Read More »What could possibly happen within 20 hours?

The excitement continues. Four days without having been at the lake and the changes couldn’t be bigger. Once again we struggled with recognizing the area. Everything has changed so much. The water level is still going up strongly. And so does the glacier. We have… Read More »Tabular icebergs

Finally, almost three days without any fieldwork. Definitely too much. Far too much. The wind calmed down and the conditions on the fjord got much better again. Getting out in the evening to continue our sea water sampling program. We couldn’t reach all our stations,… Read More »Finally the wind calmed down again