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.

12/08/2012

Fast Forward (The End (again (for now)))

I do apologize for the rapid decrease in online activity over the last 2 weeks. There was a number of factors that contributed to my premature blogging-demise - the main one was definitely the lack of internet over the last week on the MV Neptune. We then had a horrendous journey back home, with what's probably the worst flight time to waiting time ratio ever (6h:21h), and it took me a good few days to settle back in.

And then I also didn't want to take all the excitement away from Operation Iceberg (I also had the impression that the makers of the show would appreciate if I didn't shout out all our incredible adventures into the bloggosphere before they've shown their film).

But if you're really keen to know how the story went on (and don't want to wait until mid-September when the show is aired on BBC 2), then I'd be very excited to receive your emails, or give me a call (my details can be found on my website, click here) - or leave a comment and I promise I'll answer any questions in full detail.

One thing that I will give away though is that we managed to record (for the first time) the breakup of an iceberg. I think that's pretty cool.

Thanks for all your help and support and messages. I'll post some more photos and the time and date of the airing of the show asap.

See you all (be)for the next trip!
Till
at 08:19

1 comment:

  1. Cayit13 August 2012 at 03:21

    Can´t wait to see the show!
    Having a sunburn is for quitters!

    Right on Till, that is really amazing what you doing the last couple of years.

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