Posted on 01/05/2017 by Honora
The first results from measurements taken on the ice during the CryoVEx campaign show that the sea ice between Canada and the North Pole continues to get thinner. One of the objectives of the CryoVEx campaign was...
Posted on 20/04/2017 by Honora
On 18 April, the Dutch polar explorer and climate journalist Bernice Notenboom, together with fellow 2 Degrees expeditioners Martin Hartley and Ann Daniels, achieved their target of reaching the geographic North Pole by foot. The goal of...
Posted on 18/04/2017 by Honora
Today, 14 April, is a down day, the airfield is closed for Good Friday. While we would rather be out sampling the ice, the down day gives us a chance to consider the data we have collected...
Posted on 13/04/2017 by Honora
Today was another great day! Once again, the Sun was shining over our sea-ice sites and there was very little wind. Even cold temperatures (-32°C) feel pleasant when the Sun shines and there is no wind. I...
Posted on 13/04/2017 by Honora
While we have already been out on the ice and have seen plenty more of it, Christian Haas from York University, Canada joined us on Monday so we could get down to more measuring. We did snow...
Posted on 12/04/2017 by Honora
Today, 10 April, the first of our aircraft, the Ken Borek Twin Otter that will be used to land on the sea ice, is scheduled to arrive at the Canadian Forces Station Alert with Christian Haas and...
Posted on 10/04/2017 by Honora
It may have been a beautiful warm spring weekend in Europe, but the team starting the second phase of the Cryovex and KAREN campaign in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada, have had to hunker down to wait out...
Posted on 06/04/2017 by Honora
The first phase of the KAREN field campaign, which is testing a new way of measuring Earth’s ice, concluded recently with a flight over Greenland and a great view of the ground team on the ice taking...
Posted on 28/03/2017 by Honora
Airborne surveys in the Arctic always rely on good weather so delays have to be expected. Often there are a few bad weather days in a row but if one is really unfortunate, there can be almost...
Posted on 27/03/2017 by Honora
Cake was used as a metaphor by my colleague Mark Drinkwater in his 2014 blog post Cryovex: To 86°N and back – in terms of cake! Mark drew a parallel between the different layers of a cake...
Posted on 24/03/2017 by Honora
Station Nord – our home for a few days – has been kind to the Cryovex and Karen campaign. The six young soldiers who live and work here for two years at a time have welcomed us...
Posted on 24/03/2017 by Honora
An important goal of the European Space Agency’s CryoSat mission is to measure, from space, changing sea-ice thickness over time. Yet, a remarkable feature about Arctic sea-ice is that you actually rarely see it – at least...
Posted on 20/03/2017 by Honora
The CryoVex and Karen campaign is now well and truly underway. Today, our objective is to reach within one long flight day a small Danish military station called Station Nord: no small feat for a two-propeller Twin...
Posted on 02/11/2016 by Kelsea
The University of Leeds Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) lead the vital ground based field work conducted as part of the KAREN campaign which took place in October 2016. Andrew Shepherd and I (Anna Hogg)...