ВИСКИ СО ЛЬДОМ
– Ой, – сказал Михаил Дурненков, – опять красота. Вчера он допоздна сочинял пьесу про изменение климата, поэтому вышел на палубу не выспавшийся, в тапочках и чашкой кофе. За плавучими льдами отвесной стеной вставал изрезанный трещинами край ледника.Такого количества льда[…..]
ОЛЕНИ МОЕГО СОЗНАНИЯ.
Ни один день нашей экспедиции не похож на предыдущий. Ледники, фьорды, высадки, закаты – все совершенно неповторимо. Несколько дней назад мы попали в дрейфующие льды и нас несло на скалу. Было очень непривычно видеть взволнованным нашего всегда спокойного капитана –[…..]
Monaco Glacier
“ … [Kay] has a splinter of glass in his heart, and another in his eye. These must come out or he’ll stay bewitched, and the Snow Queen will keep her hold over him forever!” “The Snow Queen” – Hans[…..]
Pteropods
Video by Matt Wainwright.
Barentsburg
We found a time machine here. It had been left like a cherished but now abandoned hobby project up on a promenade built, with similar optimism, to give the miners and their wives a summer Sunday view of the Barents[…..]
Plain Sailing
We’re 100 nautical miles out to sea, having sailed all night to reach the centre of the West Spitsbergen Current. At intervals through the journey, oceanographer Simon Boxall has been measuring the temperature and salinity of the water. The entire[…..]
Arctic Notes 9 – 9/26/2010
Arctic Rhythms: Ice Music Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky The Arctic System Whosoever will be an enquirer into Nature let him resort to a conservatory of Snow or Ice. Francis Bacon OK – so here I am in the[…..]
14th July Glacier
Sunday 26th September. We are having a gentle day at the rather surprisingly named 14th July Glacier. A day at the beach with ice instead of sand. Everyone has something they want to play at. We all do our own[…..]
Macro Micro
Most evenings, we have a lecture from one of the scientists or artists explaining their profession and the reason for being on this expedition. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez gave us a very interesting presentation on ocean acidification. Debora studies microscopic plant cells[…..]
