Our team’s season has gotten off to a great start! So good that the field team was whisked into the field site early; so fast they couldn’t even get off a blog post. So I will fill you in from a nice comfy office in Colorado.
If you have followed our blogs in the past, or any Greenland research blog for that matter, they usually start out something like this, “Due to another weather delay we are still waiting for our flight into the field.” This usually goes on for a few weeks before the “WOW we actually made it to the field” blog is posted. In truth, we generally double the amount of time needed for the measurements to accommodate weather delays. Well this season is different!
Half the team arrived Kulusuk, Greenland, on July 22 and the rest on July 24. They quickly organized the gear, arranged helo loads and were setting up camp at the field July 26. They started taking science measurements on July 27. This is certainly a record for us and after a very tough weather season in the spring we are hoping the sunny summer weather around 0 C (32 F) will help us.
Olivia did manage to get out a few photos from Kulusuk which is much more thawed out than it was a few months ago. Check out this old post with picture from Kulusuk just three months ago to see the change that occurs during the Arctic summer.
View from flight into Kulusuk with broken up sea ice (flat round ice) and icebergs that have calved from the nearby glaciers (taller, more jagged ice).
Camp gear at Kulusuk Airport being organized for helo flight into the field.
Open Fjord in Kulusuk with icebergs.
Summer flowers.
Tags: cryosphere, drilling, Greenland, Greenland Aquifer Expedition 2015, ice