Glacier Day in my #FieldDiary! Always a good one.
I'm writing this on the way home, but you get the point...
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

Last morning in Qaanaaq, time to go home, but first a massive clean up is due! Lots of notes to write up, still some data to download, need to go and repair a cable too. May have time to update and round off the full #FieldDiary later.
But first a peaceful shot from last night, when the narwhals were in the bay again...

The highs and lows of fieldwork: on the sometimes frustrating, sometimes rewarding process of learning new skills. Also, back to the sea ice again.
#FieldDiary updates
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

TFW you've spent ages trying to solve a tricky problem and it. just. does. not. work. You take a break, come back, try something new, nope still nothi... Wait! It's there, there it is! That's the data...

That is why we love doing #science and in an increasingly packed day, the opportunity to work away uninterrupted* on a focused problem is increasingly rare. *That's* why I love fieldwork...

Details in a #FieldDiary soon.

*Uninterrupted time helped today by failure of all internet + phone communication in Qaanaaq..

Snow is incredibly important in the #Arctic: it affects sea ice growth and melt, glaciers and ice sheets, permafrost, vegetation and animal life. Today's twofer #FieldDiary update on the last few days contains quite a lot about #snow. Also #birds.
And, data...

https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

As promised yesterday, an update from fieldwork day 1.
I'm experimenting a bit by making a #FieldDiary, no idea of it's interesting or useful, but hopefully someone will like it...

http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

Will do a proper #FieldDiary tomorrow but suffice to say, today went even better than hoped. Instruments behaved, weather cooperated + our local hunter friend got us smoothly into the field. Looking forward to seeing what it all means now...
(Background: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/20/falling-apart/)

Time for a #FieldDiary update. We made it to #Qaanaaq, 1000+km north of Ilulissat + it's a wonderful sunny "evening". The ice has started to break in big flakes close to town, so we made decision to do sea ice programme tomorrow as probably a last chance.

Some exciting weather in #Greenland as we set off on fieldwork -> a pretty typical pattern: low pressure in SE brings large amount of snow + rain, but also warmer temperatures, wind + melt. On the other side of the ice sheet there is a föhn wind driving melt + ice loss via @polarportal #FieldDiary

And in case you think I only work in the most pristine of environments, here is a picture from this evening at my land snow study site, right next to the town dump...

The birds also like to perch on our meteorological mast so the first task was a site clean up before the data downloads and digging could begin.

Stunning last day of our much truncated field work on the sea ice today. Still plenty of work on land and glacier though. We'll be going right up to the flight departure to fit as much as we can in...

#Greenland #GreenlandFieldwork24 #fieldDiary
#Qaanaaq

Finally on ice today, we're missing 3 days so it's going to be a busy week and some things will probably drop, but we made it and the hunters were waiting to whisk us away. I got snowpits and UAV flights in and we recovered the winter moorings.

Tomorrow it's time to move the weather stations off the ice and on to land and download data, also want to try to get on to the glacier for SMB obs programme.
Melt season well underway here now.

#GreenlandFieldwork24
#FieldDiary