Arctic Climate Impact Tour 2011

Nick Toberg and Till Wagner went to the North Greenland Sea in September 2011, to measure the properties and thickness of the sea ice aboard the Greenpeace ship ARCTIC SUNRISE - to document their work they started writing this blog.

As the ice was reaching a new record low (see the NSIDC sea ice extent graph) this year, we went back to carry on our work.

Last year, we were joined by SCANLAB, who performed 3d laser scans of the surface of the ice. They are on board again this year, but now we're getting the bottom as well: Hanumant Singh from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is joining with his team to get 3d profiles of the underside of the ice.

So now, for a historic first, we got the whole 3d picture of sea ice floes in the Arctic Ocean.

On board as well this year was the master of it all, our group leader Professor Peter Wadhams.

After the Arctic Climate Impact Tour, Peter and Till travelled to West Greenland and took part in expedition Operation Iceberg - a BBC funded science project that was subsequently featured in the 2 part BBC 2 documentary Operation Iceberg.

13/08/2011

Packing

Location: Cambridge, UK
(by till)
Preparations have really kicked off now. Yesterday we fortunately could source a petrol drilling head and delivered it to Karl the shipping guy. Today we went in detail through clothes and equipment and packed it all up.
Ghostbuster Nick in the DAMTP cold room.

Great news of the day: the magnaprobe, 'Maggie', which  I thought I had fried last year in Antarctica (by short circuiting her over a car battery) has undergone a wondersome resurrection and is happily beeping away again!
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