Science Education Week Group picture after NEEM visit
Summary Nivi Rosing of Nuuk was the first student to leave at 8:05am followed closely by Aggu Broberg and Cecilia Heilmann. The Danes left next followed by the Greenlandic and Danish teachers…
The Dome at NEEM
Summary This post contains all of our activities at NEEM. We arrived on July 19 and left on July 20. We arrived at NEEM yesterday and have been busy since we hit the ground. Yesterday students…
Charlotte Madsen (DK) airing up the raft
Summary Students spent the morning working on their Summit video and the afternoon with Lisa Pratt's Indiana University group. The group is testing various types of equipment to determine whether…
Cecilia Olsen-Heilmann taking Aggu's callsign during the hike to the waterfall
Summary In the morning students worked with IGERT fellow Kaitlin Keegan. Kaitlin had the students use their snow pit measurements they took at Summit to calculate the snow density as a function of…
Fog Bow at Summit Station Greenland July 2012
Summary Bag drag was at 6:30am and students boarded the flight by 10am. When the C-130 landed several Kangerlussuaq residents were on the flight as a "turnaround" tour. Aggu Broberg of Disco Bay…
Kaitlin Keegan explaining snow layers in the backlit snowpit
Summary Students spent the morning watching a LC-130H land on the skiway and then visited the backlit snow pit where IGERT student Kaitlin Keegan showed the students how the layers tell the story of…
Panorama of Summit Station on July 14, 2012
Summary After the 8am morning meeting the students headed out with the science techs to complete the days standard experiments. Two science techs walk to various small stations around the "Big…
Cecilia and Fie launching an Ozonesonde (Ozone balloon)
Summary Science Education Week Group picture before leaving for Summit at 7am. We had a 3am wake-up call for our flight to Summit this morning which was delayed until 7am. But we made it before…
Aggu Broberg
Summary First group Science Education Week Picture. From left: Cecilie Nordholm, Nivi Rosing, Cecilie Olsen-Heilmann , Charlotte Madsen, Alex Schmidt, Aggu Broberg, Fie Thorup Hansen, Marisa…
Summary Students are spending today working on their presentations. Any "old" work; videos, reports, etc are also being completed and uploaded to the appropriate journal, so look back over the…
Students digging for Permafrost
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…
Kasper Busk, Dana Cucci and Nivi Rosing identifying plants
Summary - More updates to come! Asa Rennermalm of Rutgers University is spending the day with the students discussing and doing her research. This morning she is explaining her research to the…