Visiting Washington Land wasn’t originally on our schedule. We were supposed to spend two weeks in Hall Land and later move the camp to Ellesmere Island. However, Hall Land wasn’t exactly what you call a biologist’s dream.
One of the few things that are usually true about a research plan is that it doesn’t work as expected, and if you're lucky it will lead into something completely different but equally (or even more) exciting.
Field work is primarily about research and our effort is to collect as much data as possible but we still need to spend time with everyday duties like cooking and doing the dishes. A special task that is associated with field work in the Arctic is polar bear safety.
Our project, Arctic Islands, broadly aim at evaluating the potential effects of such marginalization on ecosystems properties and the ability to deliver critical ecosystem services in Arctic environments.
