Back to yesterday’s view. Sivorgfjella with Scharffenbergbotnen and Svea at the base. Photo: Karin Winarve Still happy from yesterday’s the field trip to Svea. After just a few hours of sleep we put the work clothes on and its time to...
Jenny Newall is the PhD student on this expedition. The Magic DML expedition will be an essential part of her thesis. Photo: Henrik Törnberg Nat Lifton is an expert in lab methods and sampling techniques. He help to decide whether it’s worth...
Coffee break on our way to Milorgfjella. On the trailer you can see gray Jet-A1-powered snow melting device that provides drinking water for us together with an assortment of GPS and sampling equipment. The rest of our camping and field equipment...
Ready to get more boulders. Photo: Karin Winarve The field team once sent us a message along the way to their new camp site. The way to Heimefrontfjella and the depot at Steinnabben went really fast thanks to the good weather. They refueled...
Pär Ljusberg. Photo: Henrik Törnberg There’s a lot of technical equipment at a polar research station. At Wasa we have seven snowmobiles, four tracked vehicles, two off-road vehicles, two diesel generators, a water system with a snow melter,...
The MAGIC-DML field camp on the ice at the mouth of Kibergdalen. Photo: Ola Fredin Inside the mess tent. Photo: Jenny Newall Inside the toilet tent – yes, really! Photo: Jenny Newall Neil relaxing in the tent after a long day in the field. Photo:...
From whence we came… Photo: Nat Lifton Tottanfjella, with the Johnsonhogna, Cottontoppen, and Vardeklettane/Ardusberget nunataks from left to right. Photo: Nat Lifton In our first major expedition from Wasa, we visited Milorgfjella, the...
Our medical doctor Henrik. He always has his medical equipment with him. He keeps the most sensitive drugs next to his body and keeps it in the sleeping bag so that they won’t freeze when we are out in the field. Photo: Henrik Törnberg...
Our Expedition Leader Henrik Törnberg on Månesigden Ridge, Antarctica. Photo: Nat Lifton Every expedition needs a great leader and we are lucky that we have Henrik Törnberg in that role. Henrik was involved right from the start in helping us with...
The Petermann 2015 expedition is a perfect example of how we study iconic systems. This is the canary in the coal mine for how the world changes. In particular whats interesting with this place is that it has an floating ice shelf that protects...
Approaching Milorgfjella on the autobahn. The four wheeled car plus trailer loaded up for the ‘”lightweight” expedition. The two snowmobiles and fuel took up most of the space on the cars. Photo: Karin Winarve Learning from our success...
Night and full moon over Aboa. Photo: Carl Lundberg Trying out various kitchens in the contest ”Guess which kitchen boils a liter of water the fastest.” Karin was our judge and Neil won. The combination of two different kitchen was...
Looking down to the ice runway at Wasa. From what we could see it was perfect weather for our flight to Troll Station. Apparently the weather is not quite so fine at Troll hence the cancellation of our flight. Photo: Jennifer Newall This morning...
Karin against the wind! Photo: Carl Lundberg Hi there The other day we got notice the pickup would be early – the day after at noon. So we put in high gear and got everything parked, packed and ready to leave. At nine the day after the early...
Nathalie Van der Putten from the Department of Geology, Lund University, will participate in Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) which is the first research expedition of the Swiss Polar Institute. The expedition is divided into three legs...
We could literally see the front coming, it’s been with us ever since. Photo: Carl Lundberg Yesterday’s weather reports indicate that the weekend is our best bet to leave Wasa. We don’t know why, but we didn’t get a weather...
So, we are officially delayed and the mess with missed connections is on. For a while the planning pointed towards flying out yesterday, but that got cancelled. Ola F., Neil, and Henrik H. passing time while the storm roars. Photo: Carl Lundberg...
The last few days have passed slowly, we switched to low-power mode and just waited out the storm. When the winds were at their strongest, the anemometer almost broke down and we had to take it inside. Then it sounded as if the storm got even...
The stubborn storm and our involuntary extended stay at Wasa, meant that we had time for a proper closing of the station. The closing procedure is basically the reverse of the start-up procedure – there is a checklist to follow and we just do it...
Researchers from Stockholm University have been invited to participate in the Polynyas, ice production, and seasonal evolution in the Ross Sea (PIPERS) expedition on board the U.S. icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer. Read more about the expedition to...
