Today has been filled with emailing, ideas and preparations for the rest of the week’s research. In other words, like many other PhD days, I have been mainly sat at the computor. Like being at home, I sat at the computor at the library for a while, for a change of scene. There’s a great desk where you can sit surrounded by an impressive number of books about Svalbard and polar explorations in general, which feels inspiring and reminds me how lucky I am to be here! By 7pm though we felt the need to stetch legs and enjoy getting snowed on…