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Category: Ice

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Cold edged bodies

Posted on February 20, 2015CategoriesField Work, Ice3 Comments on Cold edged bodies

Since I just received a weather warning for Aberystwyth, (looks like it’s storms and hide tide time again, brace yourselves those at home!)  this post I wrote earlier seems all the more apt. After Monday’s wet and mild weather things have been getting steadily colder and we’ve had a bit of snow fall, it all… Read More

Bring back the cold! 

Posted on February 16, 2015CategoriesField Work, IceLeave a comment on Bring back the cold! 

Ice spike boot attachments: a fiver well spent! I never thought I’d say that kind of phrase! After the -23 clear skies of Saturday, the blizzard and white out yesterday. Today, we have a new challenge: standing upright and going in the direction intended. It’s warmer here than in Oslo at +3 degrees, and raining.… Read More

12th June – Into the mountain

Posted on June 13, 2014CategoriesClimate Change, Environmentalism, Field Work, Geography, Ice, Value2 Comments on 12th June – Into the mountain

We log in via the visitors book, pass the security guy, don hard hats with the Statsbygg logo (the state construction arm of the Norwegian government) and file into the dank corridor (which must be the bit outside the mountain) and through the second metal door that has been unlocked for us. We descend as… Read More

7th June – Getting out

Posted on June 8, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, Ice, Phd Life, ValueLeave a comment on 7th June – Getting out

Bit of an extended post today since I have skipped a couple…. Staying here in Longyearbyen for any length of time, people start to become concerned that you manage to find your way out of town and experience some of ‘the nature’ here.  Though Longyearbyen has just about everything one needs, after a few weeks,… Read More

6th June – Sounds of snow

Posted on June 6, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, Ice, Landscape2 Comments on 6th June – Sounds of snow

I have a proper update in process, but in the meantime, I thought I would share some of the sounds of yesterday up on Foxfonna glacier….but my trusty phone that has been a very reliable tool so far in all my audio recordings didn’t pick it up. It was too much to ask perhaps, given… Read More

30th May – Water above and below

Posted on May 30, 2014CategoriesField Work, Ice, Landscape, Phd LifeLeave a comment on 30th May – Water above and below

Another week of extremely interesting conversations, but photography-wise, I’ve been lacking in inspiration on what to share. It has been grey, cloudy and mizzly these last few days. The mountain tops have dissappeared from view under cloud and I remember now this is very much like how it was when I arrived almost a year… Read More

20th May – Changing states

Posted on May 20, 2014CategoriesField Work, Ice, Landscape, TimeLeave a comment on 20th May – Changing states

It was only a few days ago I posted about ice and snow melting, but I’m going to do it again! It’s happening really quickly now, snow men there one day, gone the next. Channels of water appearing under, over and cutting through ice. The slabs of snow cleared at the side of the road… Read More

18th May – Mountains! 

Posted on May 18, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, Ice, LandscapeLeave a comment on 18th May – Mountains! 

Sunday, a good time for landscape loveliness. Glorious spring weather with stunning scenary that one usually only sees on TV/ postcards. It’s hard to know what to ‘do’ with these kind of views, sometimes it seems like some one just flew in a huge film backdrop and plonked it on the horizon! Stunning Svalbard -views… Read More

16th May- Ice-slush-puddles

Posted on May 16, 2014CategoriesField Work, Ice, Time, ValueLeave a comment on 16th May- Ice-slush-puddles

It is only a matter of time before Svalbard moves into full summer mode and the snow cover receeds. The ‘big melt’ is coming, in fact it might have started today with temperatures edging over the zero degree mark, (though I am holding out for more snow and re-freeze next week :)). Today we saw… Read More

Read all about it!

Posted on May 12, 2014CategoriesField Work, Geography, Ice, Phd Life, Value1 Comment on Read all about it!

So, I’ve written a press release, about myself, which is a weird thing to do (but for fellow researchers, it was a fun exercise in writing differently and explaining in plain language). It seems so far no one has gotten round to publishing it, so I might as well do it myself, the glories of… Read More

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