... the processes responsible for this retreat. This newfound knowledge, and more generically, the experiences gained working in a modern glaciated environment, will certainly bring new insights to ongoing work in the Arctic and – like all good ...
... befolkningens undervisningsbehov. Strategin är på intet sätt unik för Argentina. Till Frei/Marsh stationen på King George Island på Sydshetlandsöarna, har Chile lockat chilenska familjer att bosätta sig och sedan år 1984 har ...
... very different weather conditions; from unexpected warm weather in the beginning of the week with temperature peaking at 22°, more or less forcing us to take a swim in the river, to this morning with fog lying close to the ground and ...
... a two-day helicopter ride for sampling boulders for cosmogenic nuclide dating of the large moraine ridge systems, marking the former positions of retreating ice sheets. I managed to re-schedule these flights to this week, and by that also ...
... perfectly fine now! A big relief. Installation of convenience, with a view. Photo: Per Möller Our burners for cooking – very expensive Swedish multi fuel (it was said) Primus stoves – became a problem already in the end of the first week. ...
... temperatures at 22 °C. After unloading all stuff and brought to a temporary storage room for later sorting and packing, a cold beer tasted just awesome. Per Möller, Department of Geology, Lund University
... and water- and sewage pipes everywhere over ground (cant get them down due to the permafrost), the latter often leaking and giving a foul odour. The roads are constructed of the waste from the coal-fuelled energy plant, giving everything a ...
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 Late Quaternary ...
... rapids some 50 to 150 meters at each place. The wind getting harder and harder generated half meter high waves breaking at ours sterns and cascading us with water and filling the boats. However, we pressed on and reached our planned ...
... cumulus clouds over our head, and then changing wind speed; no wind mosquitoes, hard wind sand in our ears when working in sections. Monday it was 18 °C in the afternoon, Wednesday it was 24 °C, and on Sunday afternoon an incredible 32 °C, ...
Cooking. Photo: Per Möller After the thunderstorm Sunday night the rain continued on and off on Monday until noon, and then blue ...
... the NOA project back in 2010. Today we registered at the Governor of Svalbard’s office and began with checking the reservations of equipment that were made for us, and we had to discover that we would only get floatation suits ...
... cloudy and a few rain showers. The river was tricky for the first 10 km, having a lot of shallow sand bars making it hard to judge where the main channel was. And the current was slowing the boats as we now travel upstream the Logata ...
... our hotel rooms. Work today involved 1) splitting our field gear out from the glaciology group, 2) buying and packing up food supplies, and 3) sorting our personal gear. My team of five is ’lean ’n mean’, very efficient ...
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, clothes, sleeping bags, etc., is NO FUN! After a few false starts, we manage to select solid ground for ...
... what we see, there’s no proof. Kuba ”tested” his knee today on this 22 km roundtrip and it is working again, although a little bit slower. On the way back the rain caught us and the weather is now of the more uncomfortable ...
... point. Everything is getting wet just by being exposed to the air. An hour of thinner clouds with some sun peeking through was the ideal occasion to get out of the sleeping bag. The ”holiday” started with pancakes for ...
... connection was the last one – many conversation minutes which can be used in a better way, e.g. calling home and asking my wife to look it up for me. Cheaper and really nice. 🙂 Unfortunately, tomorrow the forecast predicts the same windy ...
... they always find our water! Peter on the ice. When the helicopter comes in, Bea, Laura and I are ready to start working with the water. Peter helps with filling the experimental bottles, but then he needs to eat and rest for a while after ...
... the weather was even better, a totally calm morning giving way for a light breeze later. I spent the day in camp making sample lists on the computer, dressed in shorts and T-shirt. A few of us made some additional investigations in the till ...
