... 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, ...
... night, and that we expect a Mi8 helicopter on Monday morning, retrieving the now empty fuel drums and garbage, taking out Dima to Khatanga, and taking Kenneth’s frozen sediments samples to a freezer and all my sediment samples for dating ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... – from tents via sleeping bags to clothes – and went later for fieldwork along the southern shore of Selvågen, looking mainly for the tillite (glacial deposits) marked on the maps. What a surprise that we instead found a highly deformed ...
... 4 am, but getting us and the Zodiac ready took longer than expected. We left the camp at half past five, probably waking up the sailor who had anchored his mighty yacht in the deep water on the other side of Selvågen. The water in ...
... two and half weeks washing/bathing in glacial streams. 🙂 Yesterday we were occupied by sorting equipment and packing the camp. Then Stig and Bjørn on M/S FARM picked us up in the late afternoon and also brought Karolina Goluchowska, our ...
... reindeers However, on Tuesday after lunch there was a sudden change; within an hour the wind went down and the breaking waves died out. We quickly packed down the camp into boats and were off up-streams the Khatanga River in the early ...
