Som vi skrivit om i flera bloggposter tidigare så befinner vi oss i en mycket karg och ödslig miljö norr om 81:a breddgraden på nordvästra Grönland. Vi tillbringar dagarna till fots och efter att ha vandrat till alla olika punkter som vi ska...
Nu har vi arbetat en vecka i fält på den halvö som kallas Hall Land. Våra första tvivel om lämpligheten med att forska på biologi i ett så här tillsynes sterilt landskap har bytts ut i förundran över hur många varelser som trots allt verkar klara...
Efter en dryg vecka ombord börjar jag landa. De flesta ombord har gjort expeditioner förr, men för en skolfröken från Gimo är resan en omvälvande upplevelse som tar tid att smälta. Jag har tappat perspektiv för både tid och avstånd. Det är ljust...
Meanwhile back in the camp…. It has rained constantly for three days. We sat in camp and sorted through our fossils for shipping. Grzegorz ventured out in the rain to take some samples for laboratory analysis. He also managed to get upriver to...
Inlandsisen. Grönlands inlandsis. Världens näst största landismassa. Endast Antarktis är större. Ett ismassiv lika stort som nästan en femtedel av Europa i yta. En sak är att se det på TV. En annan att höra om det. Eller läsa om det. Men det är så...
Investigating a snowy owl eating stone. Photo: Åsa Lindgren 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...
The weather is against us. I am back at the “Hilton” in Constable Point with a few other scientists, who are likewise stuck because of the storm. Apparently there is a big low-pressure centre hovering over Iceland that is hitting the East...
LoTUS buoy attached to the CTD for depth rating testing. Photo: Jari Krützfeldt Most of the measurements done during the Petermann expedition on Oden give scientists either a pictures of the current situation or they enable them to look back into...
Wind at 35 knots and reasonable visibility at Constable Point this morning so we took off in the helicopter at 0900. We flew low through the valleys to avoid the worst of the wind on the mountains. Made it about halfway to Mestersvig before coming...
Another fine 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 sheets by transporting ice to the ocean....
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 valleys or up along the coast, whichever allowed us a clear passage. We got about half way along Klitdal,...
At last!!!! The helicopter set off from Constable Point this morning at 0900 as planned. It stopped at Mestersvig to drop off both Ben and the provisions before flying straight up to Kap Stosch to pick up the project. The team then flew in from...
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: Grzegorz concentrating on the sandstone blocks to look for footprints; Henning and Ben for outcrops...
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 och väldigt håriga är den isbjörnshona som några dagar efter expeditionens start kom på...
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 unprecedented amount of new and very complete Cunegonathus material. There is also a bonanza of...
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 slope to make the silicon mould of the tetrapod track way while...
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 Land and later move the camp to Ellesmere...
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 when I finally got out. All the tents were still standing, but leaning over alarmingly. We had built up walls of...
Christina, Tomas, Åsa, Nico, Patricia och Fredrik på Ellesmere Island. Foto: Patricia Pecnerova Vår lilla fältgrupp har fått tillökning och vi är nu sex personer, vilket gör att vi kan effektivisera arbetet ytterligare genom att gå i tre team med...
