Intensiva dygn i Khatanga
Det har varit ett par intensiva dygn i Khatanga. Mer än hälften av alla Pers plastlådor hade spruckit under frakten, vilket förstås inte alls var bra då det är där ...
Khatanga – Bien venue!
So, we are back in Khatanga and taking up the final field-work part of my project Taymyr revisited – a quest for Eurasian Ice Sheet margins and ...
Marin säkerhetskurs
... expedition med isbrytaren Oden spenderade två dagar i slutet av maj på Öckerö Maritime Centre. Där fick vi öva på att flyta i överlevnadsdräkt, bli upphissade i helikopterlina, träna på hjärt- och lungräddning och släcka bränder. Första ...
A sort of ”hell week”
Monday saw decent weather and we made good geologic work by logging two sections with marine sediments hosting a very rich mollusc fauna. This ...
River and weather gods are with us again (the latter maybe a bit too much)
... sections revealing marine sediments, the best section of course – as in 2010 along the Bolshaya Balaknya – being beneath a pelerine falcon’s nest, having three newly hatched ckicks in the nest and one egg to go. The parents dived and ...
A week of not so much geology, and a very strange weather
... off on Monday until noon, and then blue skies again. All had a rest, sleeping until the brunch was served, and after that sorting up the mess after the storm. The evening was beautiful, comfortably warm and with a light breeze. We had our ...
Travel to Longyearbyen
Waiting here at Tromsö airport for the continuation of the flight to Longyearbyen is the right time to start the expedition diary. As an ...
Equipment check and a shooting exercise
... Polar Institute today to check equipment, to get the survival suits and to hire the rifles. We had a shooting exercise at the shooting range, supervised by the Norwegian Polar Institute. It’s good to see that all of us were able to ...
En kort rapport från 80°N
... – 7 plusgrader, sol och måttliga nordvindar. Arbetet med provtagningar kom igång genast. Vi höll också ett informationsmöte om praktiska rutiner och presentation av alla deltagare. Under natten till onsdagen hade vinden och sjön lagt ...
Arrival at Richardlaguna
Position of NOA-Svalbard camp 1: 78º46.540’N, 10º56.254’E No time to write yesterday. At 8 am we met up at the harbour where the captain and owner of M/S FARM, Stig Henningsen, was already waiting for us. ...
A reconnaissance trip
Today it is again cold and windy. We decided to go for a reconnaissance trip through the late Neoproterozoic Taylorfjellet, Glenbergdalen and MacNairrabbane units. Majek and Jarek felt ”at home” with ...
Rapport från Oden
Isbjörnsspår på isen. Fredagens stora händelse var att vi mötte upp med professor Yngve Kristoffersen och hans svävare Sabvabaa. Han har varit strandad den senaste veckan på ...
A good hunting week
Monday came with chilly winds and fair enough weather, good for geological digging and documentation. We had a go at our previously discovered river section within ...
Electronic repair
... for the computer – otherwise there wouldn’t have been more entries here. After some electronic repair with a Leatherman multitool the charger is functional again, but without protection for wrong polarity anymore… I just ...
To Bouréefjellet
... this time pulling one of the lower trip wires… Majek didn’t even hear the bang and, hence, we decided that it’s better that he will not take a gun during nighttime. The camp fox. Photo: Henning Lorenz The weather was fine ...
A trip to Grimaldibukta
... We made the Zodiac ready for a trip to Grimaldibukta, to look for more high grade metamorphic rocks of the Pinkie Formation. Our camp fox visited us again and was even less shy than before. Unfortunately, Kuba had a bad knee after twisting ...
Expedition blog part 1
4 July 2012 Wow! After a really long flight with a re-fueling break in Tura (not too common for a plane!) we arrived in Khatanga. The time change of 6 hours left many pretty zoned, but we still unload all the gear, get it to the hotel, and grab ...
Expedition blog part 2
19 July 2012 The weather is fine and our camp re-location is a ‘go’. It’s nice when the weather is good, because packing wet soggy tents, ...
A look at the Sutorfjella conglomerate
... the New Siberian Islands, Svalbard… Well… Today we walked to the western side of the island to look at the Sutorfjella conglomerate, a unit of uncertain age. Most of its clasts resemble local units – like the big pieces of ...
På multibeam-"kontoret"
... Odens brygga, 6:e våningen, 30 m över havet, och vart vi än tittar ser vi bara packis, ibland med turkosfärgade smältvattenpölar. Helikoptern har varit på spaningsflyg ett flertal gånger under dagen för att leta efter den minst svåra vägen ...