This morning I took a walk on the glacier with the rest of the team while we decided what we're going to be doing for the next week or so. Most of my work isn't on the glacier itself but I'll be helping out on the ice later in the trip. There was lots of talk of thrusting and sinkholes and geophysical techniques and ablation stakes. The glacier hasn't stopped melting over the winter - its surface has lowered by at least 2m since September. Then after lunch I took the big gold Nissan Patrol out on the sandur on my own to check out how my boreholes were doing. Had a lot of fun bumping around remembering how to get to them; and all the loggers are still working, which was very cheering. Although the increasingly wild wind and rain wasn't, really. But still, coming home with six months of groundwater level and temperature data, and some stable isotope samples, on my first day in the field isn't bad. Just in time for baked fish, red wine and an evening of graphs, Kraftwerk, Bob Marley, and bad jokes.
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| This morning was like this |
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| This afternoon mostly like this |
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| The lower slopes of Virkisjokull. For reasons still unknown, there is quite a lot of hay. |
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