Long lost mooring recovered!
The CCGS Henry Larsen team have just, incredibly, recovered a mooring we deployed in 2003 to measure sea surface elevation (which tells us something about what drives the flow through Nares Strait)....
View ArticleCTD sections …
7/8 August 2012: Two days of CTD sections. We actually need to work on the weather stations as well: there is a weather station on Cape Baird that needs to be dismantled and relocated to Joe Island on...
View ArticleAn Arctic hike
9 August 2012 When I woke up this morning, the wind had not settled down. Quite the opposite to be honest: For the first time since we left Thule the boat was significantly moving in other directions...
View ArticleFirst sight of the Petermann ice island
9 August Ever since a large piece of the glacier tongue of Petermann Glacier broke off on the 22nd of July (now commonly referred to as ‘the ice island’), we have been anxiously monitoring the movement...
View ArticleData collection in Petermann Fjord
10 August 2012 After a short night I woke up this morning for regular breakfast hours between 7 and 8 am. It became clear that we would not be taking measurements in at least the next few hours, so I...
View ArticleThe realities of Arctic research
By Pete Davis Over the last few days the news coming back from the Nares Strait has been nothing but good. The science team has managed to recover the majority of the ADCP and TS moorings (which...
View ArticleSaturday nights at sea
11/12 August 2012 It is weekend on the Larsen. This is a strange thing to realize, as our weekends don’t look much different from weekdays. We are only here for two and a half weeks and want to get...
View ArticleScreeching in
13-16 August 2012 We are on our way back. The days are filled with servicing weather stations and recovering/replacing more tide gauge moorings, while at night we do more CTD sections. I feel sad...
View ArticleBrevoort Island, by Dave Riedel
13 August 2012 Brevoort Island, Smith Sound, 78˚ 41’ N, 74˚ 07’ W In 2009, after a particularly blustery trip to Cape Baird, Ellesmere Island, I wrote “The problem with weather stations is that in...
View ArticleYous ain’t left yet…!
17-20 August 2012 It is Monday evening. I have just said goodbye to my new friends and find myself alone at Ottawa International Airport, waiting for the check-in counter to open in a few hours. My...
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