For the first time…
Я впервые в жизни бегала за оленями (и почти догнала их). Я впервые в жизни участвовала в ловле тераподов (и наловила целую банку). Я впервые в жизни измеряла pH, температуру, соленость и скорость морского течения (pH= 7.8, t = 0.5[…..]
Lost and Found Words
Finding the words to describe the Cape Farewell experience is a full-time job. We are sailing through a land of ice, glaciers, and waters in which evocative words like kittiwakes and minke feature prominently. Several languages are spoken at any[…..]
Scientific figures from the Arctic
I came to the Arctic to test how ice melting and ocean acidification are changing the carbon chemistry of seawater. I also came in search for pteropods (Figure 1), to investigate whether and to what extent climate change is affecting[…..]
Arctic Notes: 4
“Nowadays everyone knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” Oscar Wild Today I write to you from the Noorderlicht after we’ve left a deeply barren island that’s pretty much the most northern part of our journey. The[…..]
What I have learned so far
Listen Ocean waves & wind – sound recording, 1:05 Sunday September 12th, 2010 Today is my 38th birthday. It’s been a strange and melancholy one for me. We came upon a glacier, which was massive in width and strangely variable[…..]
Daily life in the North
Blogging is a Relative Thing
We’ve been at sea for five days now and the trend has been to have an adventure at shore in the morning and return to the Noorderlicht for lunch by 1:30. The afternoons are spent sailing and ‘blogging.’ It’s a[…..]
Bearings
Muffin Island, 80⁰N. We’re so close to the magnetic north pole that compasses won’t work. This is a place of lost bearings, and it seems right somehow that all our qualities of movement are different here. Out in open water[…..]
350 from the Arctic to the Atmosphere
On the frozen shores of Ny-Alesund the icebergs wash ashore even in the height of summer. The summer population swells to 130 people and the sun never dips below the jagged mountains. Now, as September turns the days shorter the[…..]
Hoelfhalveys, 79 degrees 60’ North 11.5 degrees East
SVALBARD. The cold coast – the mythical home of the Snow Queen’s palace in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of “The Snow Queen”. For long this was a land beyond the realm of maps, an imagined fantastical place of such purity[…..]
