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Summit Station is the home of the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit) http://www.geosummit.org/, where year-round monitoring of key climate variables are conducted to study air-snow interactions, knowledge of which is crucial for interpreting data from ice cores drilled in the area and

Some of my students have asked how we get electricity way down here on the ice, obviously recognizing that we are pretty secluded with no power plants around. So we make our own. There is a power plant with two diesel generators that keeps this place lit up, heated, and ventilated. And we make our

Sirius Sledge Patrol - Daneborg, Greenland. Today was a day off for us, but began with the loudspeaker blaring some Danish announcement at 7:15am. I was not sure what was being said, but it sounded like “wake up campers, breakfast will be served in 30 minutes”. The announcement was repeated two more

NEEM - 10:15am – Koni enters the tent and says, “The plane is leaving in 45 minutes”. I quickly jump out of bed, get dressed and rush to the main building to inhale my breakfast. Within 30 minutes, I am packed and ready to go. I think the last time I slept in that late was when I was in college! We

That's the name of the cove we went to today to collect some weather data. Our journey today was to a newly discovered island. Newly discovered because the glacier next to Palmer Station has receded so much in the last 30 years, a new island was uncovered. I mentioned it in an earlier blog. It is

NEEM (The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling http://neem.dk/) was an international ice core research project aimed at retrieving an ice core from North-West Greenland (camp position 77.45°N 51.06°W) reaching back through the previous interglacial, the Eemian. The project logistics is managed by the

This is my last day here in Alaska. I have spent most of the day running around getting all the little things that need to be done. It has been a very great experience for me being up here. The people have been friendly and supportive and the weather has been more than cooperative. I am sad at

Today began like the day before. We met for breakfast at 8:00am then back to our rooms to pack, only today we had to pack for the rest of the expedition. Since we will be on the ice sheet for the next ten days, non-essential items were to be stored in a container box in Kangerlussuaq. We dropped our

Today started as usual, we met for breakfast at 8:30am, packed our gear and headed for the airport. On our way to the airport we had to stop and pick up the tripod for raising the Automated Weather Station (AWS). Once we got everything loaded, we took off heading southeast towards South Dome, a

Today started out very early. We met for breakfast at 6:30am, drove to the Cantina (Airport Employee cafeteria) and quickly ate our breakfast. We then dropped off two of the members who were at Swiss Camp. They were a couple from Belgium, Alain and Gigi. Next we returned to KISS, where Simon and I