Mark in Iqaluit
Coming to the PolarTREC orientation 8 years after my PolarTREC field experience gives me a chance to reflect on how the experience has changed my life. How Science is Done Through my field…
Project Team
After the wind-down of the field season and the students' presentations of their science talks in Longyearbyen, this phase of our REU has ended. So we felt it appropriate to let everyone who has been…
Snow on Amundsen
Snow in August We arrived in Longyearbyen on Thursday afternoon after a bit of touch-and-go over whether we'd actually get out of Ny Ålesund. After 4 weeks of almost nonstop nice weather, we awoke…
Morning Run in Ny Ålesund
Closing up Shop We've just packed up all the science equipment and are heading off to Longyearbyen where we'll spend our last two days before coming back to the U.S. Moving the boxes to the dock…
Standing on the Vestre Lovenbreen glacier.
Yesterday we did our last bit of science – we picked up the HOBO to finally bring it back to the lab. Rebecca, Liz, Daksha and I said goodbye to the glacier for the last time! It was fitting that the…
George in Longyearbyen airport
Today's journal is written by REU student George Roth, who is a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is majoring in oceanography George on a hike just outside of Ny Ålesund…
View from Ny Ålesund
A Warming Climate Motivates the Research I've really had a great adventure in Svalbard, and learned quite a bit about glaciers and glacier sediment. But it's time to pull it all together and ask the…
Kronebreen glacier - choked with ice
Thwarted by Mother Nature and Modern Technology We had a slow start to today, and went out after lunch to try to finish up Daksha's CTD data. Unfortunately we were thwarted by really heavy ice…
Gravity Core Samples
What can studying the mud tell us about climate change and the behavior of the glaciers? It's time to step back a little and go a little deeper into the science of sedimentology (mud science).…
Zeppelin Mountain I'll start with a great hike that I took last night with Rebecca and Liz up to "Zeppelin Mountain" behind Ny Ålesund. It is named after a famous zeppelin (airship or blimp) ride by…
Drogue
Today we stuck around Ny Ålesund instead of going out in the field. We had a long group meeting to determine where everyone was with their data collection. We're going to be wrapping things up before…
Rebecca driving the boat
Today's journal is written by Rebecca Siegel, an REU student from Hampshire College. Hi. My name is Rebecca, I’m from Massachusetts, and my project is about iceberg calving. I’m going to…