Posted on 23/01/2015 by Honora
In December, we completed all our planned work around the field camp and completed the last of the planned kinematic GPS profiles. So, with a lot of new observational data we returned to Novo Airbase on 21...
Posted on 18/12/2014 by Honora
In the week from 1–7 December the weather was not that favourable to continue our field work. The daily weather forecast from Neumayer station told us to expect storms with high wind of more than 60 km/h...
Posted on 26/11/2014 by Honora
In the evening of Tuesday 18 November our plane took off from Cape Town heading south to our final destination: Antarctica. Researchers from India, Belgium, the UK, and Finland, as well as a group of tourists were...
Posted on 19/11/2014 by Honora
Despite the high summer temperatures in South Africa, we carried hats and thick gloves in our luggage as we checked in for a flight from Cape Town yesterday, continuing our journey to Antarctica. We are two geodesists...
Posted on 12/05/2014 by Honora
After surveying Austfonna, Svalbard, on Saturday 3 May, we had a short stop in Longyearbyen to refuel and say goodbye to Sine, who was heading home. Late in the afternoon, we headed for Station Nord in northeast...
Posted on 02/05/2014 by Honora
The second part of the 2014 Cryovex campaign has started in Iceland. Firstly, the instruments were re-installed in the ‘POF’ Twin Otter aircraft in its home-hangar in Akureyri , northern Iceland. After a short test flight on...
Posted on 11/04/2014 by Honora
Cryovex campaigns are carried out every 1–2 years and involve a lot of preparation and coordination between different operations teams – from Mission Control to Ground Control – to ensure that the people out on the ice...
Posted on 02/04/2014 by Honora
Today’s resupply flight from Thule to Station Nord brought a bizarre contrast between vintage and modern airplanes to our remote Greenlandic station. It brought into sharp view the evolution over the last 60 years. The granddaddy of...
Posted on 31/03/2014 by Honora
Today – Saturday 29 March had been seen as the most challenging day. We had prayed to the polar weather gods to bless us with good conditions for a survey of the sea ice in the region...
Posted on 27/03/2014 by Honora
Polar Explorers dream about making it to the North Pole on foot, but to do it in one day over the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean –you've got to be kidding? That would be like having...
Posted on 26/03/2014 by Honora
The NASA P-3 and ESA-Basler-67 flying in tandem over the Arctic ocean can be tracked live with NASA’s flight tracker….. Note: this is a live tracker, so the tracks are only visible when the aircraft are actually...
Posted on 26/03/2014 by Honora
Ouch – a 05:00 start to the day. Packing calories with our Arctic explorers breakfast (eggs over easy, sizzling bacon, sausages and hash browns) was the last critical item on the agenda before an early departure from...
Posted on 25/03/2014 by Honora
Yesterday and today, the second Lincoln Sea phase of the CryoVEx2014 campaign began in earnest with the arrival of two of the experiment aircraft in Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island in northern Canada. Resolute is the is staging...
Posted on 24/03/2014 by Honora
Today, the CryoVex ground and air teams arrived in Resolute Bay, Nunavut in Canada, on the way to the next campaign leg in the Lincoln Sea. The airborne EM-bird team and on ice- teams arrived via the...