July 10, 2012 Finally....PERMAFROST! And Pictures of the Groups

Summary

Students spent the morning with Julia Bradley-Cook and Ruth Heindel about 1.5 km outside of town digging for permafrost. Students were assigned different types of vegetation...shrubs, grass, mix, etc and then each group dug down to the permafrost and examined the layers.

After lunch students are finishing up there work from the last two weeks. Tomorrow students will put all of their work together and give a presentation.

Group 5 Permafrost video

Pictures of each group

I realize I hadn't posted individual pictures of the groups so when I report that 'group 1 did weather today' you have no clue who I'm talking about. So here are pictures of each group

Group 1 from left: Alex Schmidt (US), Fie Thorup Hansen (DK), Bonna Berthelson (Grl), Kunuk Gundel (Grl)

Group 2 from left: Marisa LaRouche (US), Bikki Geisler (Grl), Charlotte Kjær Madsen (DK), Malou Paplis (Grl)

Group 3 from Left: Maeve McCormick (US), Cecilie Norholm (DK), Cecilia Olsen-Heilmann (Grl), Malene Rasmussen (Grl), Agnes Avakumoff (US)

Group 4 from Left: Malene Olesen (Grl), Nivi Amossen (Grl), Aggu Broberg (Grl), Sydney Barnes (US)

Group 5 from Left: Sasha Sethsen (Grl), Dana Cucci (US), Aviaq Fly (Grl), Nivi Rosing (Grl)

From Left: Lynn Reed, 12'-13' Einstein Fellow (US), Shelly Hynes 11'-12' Einstein Fellow (US), Kasper Busk Our Leader (Grl), Rikke Jørgensen (Grl)

Pictures from today's activities

Julia Bradley-Cook and Fie Thorup Hansen are creating a carbon dioxide graph based on data from NOAA

Group 1 digging for permafrost

Kasper Busk and Joachim from Germany. Joachim communicated via email with us and helped us find one of the geocache's near Lake Ferguson.

Student Blogs

Cecilie Sand Nørholm, Denmark

Cecilie Sand Nørholm

My name is Cecilie Sand Nørholm, I’m 17 years old and come from Herning in Denmark and am studying science and math on a technical high school and I want to read to an astrophysicist when I’ve finished high school. Today we went out to dig after permafrost together with Julia and Ruth from the Eric Post camp. All 5 groups dug at different places with different vegetation, we were hitting the permafrost after only 28 cm, which was only half the depth of some of the other groups’ holes. After digging the soil plot, we studied the layers in the soil, we had a lot of clayish soil, and some layers of more white and silt soil, so that was very interesting! This afternoon we have been working on our projects such as our charts with the most common plants, animals and minerals in Kangerlussuaq and this evening we are sharing our photos and videos from the trip. It’s sad that the others already are going home on Thursday, but I’m also looking forward to travel to Summit and Neem.