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
Sometimes it is better to not comment on the pictures from our water samplings. I rather leave it to the audience to come up with the commentary.
2 days of bad weather, forced to stay in town and working on data. Slightly too much. Starting to get the cabin fever. Not saying that this doesn’t happen in the field either.
No fieldwork today. 25 m/s wind at our field site, rain and high waves prevent us from going out. Luckily we got our sea water sampling and CTD profiling done yesterday. Even got to meet some local wildlife hanging out at the glacier front. Probably… Read More »Meet the local wildlife
2 days without fieldwork felt like being an alcoholic on depriviation. But finally we managed to get out again yesterday and pull a long day in the field. 9 hours at the lake in addition to all the time spent hiking up and down and… Read More »The ice is coming up
I had to wait 4.5 years to repeat my steam drilling picture with Léo. Admittedly the light was better last time. Well you can’t compare October in Hornsund with June in Kongsfjorden. Please note the size of the gas bottle we are hauling around on… Read More »The gas bottle