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The weather is against us. I am back at the “Hilton” in Constable Point with a few other scientists, who are likewise stuck ...

LoTUS buoy attached to the CTD for depth rating testing. Photo: Jari Krützfeldt Most of the measurements done during the Petermann ...

Wind at 35 knots and reasonable visibility at Constable Point this morning so we took off in the helicopter at 0900. We flew low ...

... morning in our Arctic paradise… High winds, more rain and low clouds – we were ready to go but increasingly poor weather has kept us grounded. Rescheduled for tomorrow morning at 0900. Weather is “supposed” to improve then. Have ...

Oden in front of Petermann Ice Shelf. Photo: Martin Jakobsson An ice shelf is a floating glacier. Most ice shelves are formed as extensions of one or several ice streams that drain glaciers and large ice ...

Took off this morning at 0900 for Mestersvig. Wind has dropped completely but we now have fog settling in. The plan was to fly low along the ...

At last!!!! The helicopter set off from Constable Point this morning at 0900 as planned. It stopped at Mestersvig to drop ...

We had our first look at the rocks yesterday after dinner. We climbed up from our camp at 820 m to the snow line on Celsius Bjerg and fanned out: ...

Även om vi är långt från civilisationen har vi haft gott om besök från andra varelser. Både håriga, kala, nyfikna, skygga och oinbjudna. En av de nyfikna ...

Spent the morning identifying and cataloguing our finds, which all had to be packed in our metal containers for transport back to Sweden. We have an ...

Time is running out. We have to split our team in two so that we can achieve both of our Celsius objectives before we leave in three days. Grzegorz and Lasse have therefore gone down ...

Åsa, Fredrik, Christina and Tomas is ready to leave for Washington Land. Photo: Patricia Pecnerova Visiting Washington Land wasn’t originally on our schedule. We were supposed to spend two weeks in Hall ...

Woke up at about 0100 to shrieking wind and the tent flapping. Better check the guys. I was almost pushed over by the freezing wind ...

Christina, Tomas, Åsa, Nico, Patricia och Fredrik på Ellesmere Island. Foto: Patricia Pecnerova Vår lilla fältgrupp har fått tillökning och vi är nu sex ...

Petermannglaciären från ovan. Smältvattnet skapar turkosfärgade forsar och sjöar ovanpå glaciären. Foto: Ida Kinner Efter att ha ägnat flera dagar ute i Hall ...

Fog had settled in over the fjord but we were still bright and clear at high altitude. All the specimens were carefully packed and Grzegorz retrieved the now cured silicon mould ready for ...

... metal boxes of rock samples had also been shipped in from Kap Stosch. Beautiful fish specimens and something else that was very special. More on that later… Suffice it to say there will be beers all round in Reykjavik on the way home to ...

Vilket äventyr! Ett äventyr i äventyret. Jag har nu tillbringat fem dygn i fält i Kanada med landteamet. Att få vara en del av detta kommer att vara oförglömligt! Efter att ”provat på” ...

... den Arktiska oceanen. Åldern på isflaken är ofta 4 år eller mer och tjockleken varierar normalt mellan 2 och 4 meter. Att isvallarna sticker upp 2–6 meter över havsytan är inte onormalt och i dessa finns även isberg infrusna. Isen som bildas ...

... närma sig sitt slut och om ett par dagar går solen ned för första gången på flera månader. Detta märks tydligt i naturen där de sista kvarvarande fåglarna har börjat försvinna från området och viden har sedan ett par veckor tillbaka ...