Sarah Sams Takes Over the AGU
In case you missed it: This past week, our very own Sarah Sams was the official #guestgrammer on the American Geophysical Union Instagram...
Looking for traces from within the ice sheet
Going up to Høgskavlen. Photo: Håkan Grudd Yesterday we drove our snowmobiles up to the Høgskavlen Mountain, 2 256 m above sea level, and...
Let's Talk Science: Mapping and Verification
In our last article, we began explaining how remote sensing helps us with our mapping, the first “M” of our acronym. We use this to begin...
Straumsnutane January 10th - 12th
With a few days of good weather the team had a very productive time at one of our most northerly field sites, Straumsnutane. This site is...
SANAE on January 3rd
We had our best day yet for collecting samples and seeing evidence of past, higher levels of the east Antarctic Ice Sheet. We returned to...
SANAE on January 2nd
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day were productive fieldwork days for the MAGIC-DML field team. Poor weather had been delaying fieldwork,...
Eating in the Extreme
Part 1: “An army marches on it’s stomach” the famous quote attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte resonates well beyond the military. Nobody...
Sampling at the edge of the Antarctic Plateau
Learning from our success using both the trucks and snowmobiles to access sites during the fieldwork in Tottanfjella, it was decided to...
To Tottanfjella and back – our second major field excursion
In our first major expedition from Wasa, we visited Milorgfjella, the northeasternmost nunatak in the Heimefrontfjella (pronounced...
What is it like to do fieldwork in Antarctica?
When we are out in the field, we are a team of eight people based in a field camp. We have three large Weatherhaven tents; two for...
