We spent another long day up on the glacier working at the lake. The lake and the surrounding moulins are filling up fast and there is still more than one meter of snow up there. Plenty of meltwater to come. We managed to install the… Read More »Horizontal climbing
Finally got out timelapse camera delivery. Now we have 20 timelapse cameras ready to be distributed along the glacier to monitor what is going on. We already installed the first one two days ago. 19 cameras to go.
Finishing off the day with some late evening water sampling close to the glacier front. We will keep sampling close to the glacier front over the coming weeks to establish how the nutrient concentration in the fjord is changing as an effect of water coming… Read More »Evening sampling
Nothing beats the view, when working on glaciers. Also a reason to not only work in caves.
Sometimes you are just lucky. Two days ago I didn’t even know that we would have a solar eclipse in the Arctic today. Then we had a snow storm and I didn’t expect to see anything. But the snowstorm stopped for a few minutes during… Read More »Eclipse
Time to get on the glacier surface. We spent the day yesterday opening up a safe route to our field site. After months of starring at high-resolution satellite images and mapping out loads of moulins and crevasses, we roped up and made our way. Planning… Read More »Roping up
A happy bunch reemerging after cave survey.
First achievement of the day: Getting our mooring out in front of the glacier at 50 m water depth. Took only 11 months of planning and preperations and here it is. Now we only have to hope that it will not be crashed by big… Read More »The mooring is out
We managed to not only explore but also map the entire cave until the end. Now we can plot the flowpath of the water on a map and then we will hopefully be able to send drifters through this system once it is full of… Read More »Cave mapping
There is always a solution to a problem. Even a cave full of water can be solved. We spent some time creating a channel for the water and breaking the dam at the cave entrance. In the end we successfully managed to lower the water… Read More »Cave exploration