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.

17/08/2011

Sometimes to Entrust is to Abandon

(By Nick)
Karl of CED shipping has picked up 5 of 6 boxes of scientific equipment this morning. Till realized at the last moment that he needed more time prepping the Magna-Probe, and we need a US to UK adapter plug to charge one of its batteries. For sure, I have one at my house and will bring it tomorrow. All the gear should leave from Heathrow on Friday according to my diary. Directly I have spoken with Norwegian Air to change my flight back from Longyearbyen and to add another bag for check in. We'll certainly need more space now that we have to carry the batteries for our gear as THEY CANNOT BE SHIPPED. Tomorrow I'm going to see how the ultrasonic sensor works at the Vet College. Things have gone off without a hitch so far, and we have rarely had to extemporize. For sure, not all the posts will be this mundane, so please bear with!
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