Operation Iceberg

After an eventful trip to Fram Strait, Peter and I had a quick refreshing stopover in civilisation (one night in copenhagen).  This morning we flew to Ilulisat (formerly Jakobshavn) in West Greenland to join the BBC Science team for the documentary Operation Iceberg (there's a link to the Op Iceberg homepage above). The ship this time is the Islandic MV Neptune and it is (in all honesty) not the Arctic Sunrise - I just miss all the funky hippie drawings and decorations. I'm sharing a cabin with Prof Peter and Keith Nicholls and Povl Abrahamsen of BAS, so it'll be cosy. We'll leave port this evening and will transit to the other side of Baffin Bay where we want to survey a huge (possibly grounded) iceberg (3 times the size of Manhatten) for the next 2 weeks. Oh yes - Ilulisat is fantastic, it's a small harbour town and there is thousands and thousands of small and large icebergs around. I hope that we'll have fairly steady internet on the ship so I'll soon write more about what the plan is and who is involved and why bother.