Our day began with an epic battery haul. The helicopter landed in a rock-ringed clearing on the beach. Looking out to sea, small waves ran up a dark sandy shore, and open water extended for a mile offshore before reaching a wide band of pack ice. Inland, a steep tan hillside of dusty scree and […]
We had a great instrument installation at Minna Bluff yesterday. The Minna Bluff peninsula is about 15 miles long, a half mile wide, and three thousand feet tall. On one side, rocky cliffs fall thousands of feet to the ice shelf. The steep drop is laid in with snow drifts and would be an epic […]
With the ozone instrument in place at Marble Point, we collected and re-packed our tools, spare equipment and clothes. We assembled our gear into a tidy cargo line about forty feet from the helicopter clearing and radioed for a pickup. We had about forty minutes to appreciate the remarkable area where we’d spent the last […]
Check out this timelapse of our installation at Marble Point. Behind us, the surface of a glacier bends to the ground in a steep curve. The second segment shows the view northward towards open water.Link at: http://youtu.be/1gj11pjqs0M
Today we deployed our first ozone monitoring system. Arriving early at the helicopter terminal to weigh ourselves in (198 lbs, including parka, helmet and pack), we loaded our equipment (1400 lbs, including 12 lead-acid car batteries) into a Bell 212 (Huey) helicopter. Inside the helo, with the whine of the turbines increasing in pitch, and […]
