24 July 2010 Rain and snow!

A lot of our kitchen and living room in Gammel Stasjonen which means the Old Station where the instructor's live have been made into a lab.  In the living room, we have Al, Greg and Diana working on the Interval-o-meter.  A very important instrument that collects sediments and measures the interval the sediment fell into the trap   In the kitchen, we have Simon filtering the sediments in the water sample which he collects from the outlet of the glacier every two hours.  In another part of the kitchen, we have more common equipment to make hot caffeinated liquids.  

Today, some of us went out to Linne Lake to make measurements on the biological activity of the lake.  Some of us went to the Karst ponds to make bathymetric measurements, which is measuring the depth of the ponds.  A third group went up to the Linne glacier to collect readings on ablation stakes where the loss of the snow on the glacier is being measured and sediments being collected every two hours at the outlet of the glacier.  The weather was not great today and the visibility was very low but everyone was still able to get their measurements.