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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/

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.

And so to bed. Or maybe not. Always difficult to force myself to sleep with the midnight sun blazing away. So first, a nice cup of tea and some view appreciation...
/Fin #FieldDiary

So it's been an even more hectic afternoon than usual, preparing kit, including 2 new and rather complex instruments we've never used before, for departure tomorrow morning. We managed to get most things ready, but it's been quite the introduction for my colleague Abraham who has never been to Greenland before! But who seems very at home in the snow practicing with the EM which will measure sea ice thickness (we hope). #FieldDiary

I was in fact very doubtful about if it can happen but the local hunter who will take us out is extremely knowledgeable and is sure it can work. We'll see, its hard to beat that kind of knowledge experience, which we can supplement with satellite photos analysis from my @… colleagues in the ice service. And in fact we could watch another sled navigate the same route while we discussed #Fielddiary

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/

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..
#Fieldwork #LifeOfAScientist #AcademicChatter