Reports from INTERACT field sites
It is now the third storm in a row, told my EU-Interact-BLACK project host Hanna María Kristjánsdóttir, Director of the Sudurnes Science and Learning Center (SSLC) in Iceland. But this is unusual April weather. Today we have yellow alert for extreme weather in many (most) parts of Iceland. People are adviced to stay indoors. In […]
Read More…This post welcomes you to share my experiences on research field work at ECN Cairngorm and elsewhere in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK. ECN Cairngorm, Scotland, in March 2019. ECN refers to the UK Environmental Change Network, which is UK’s long-term environmental monitoring and research programme. The ECN Cairngorm site is owned by the […]
Read More…Photo: On the mountain Slættaratindur, the highest mountain of the Faroes. Did you know that there is no standard definition for Arctic? Almost 80 % of the Faroese area is in the regime of an Arctic climate, defined as mean monthly temperature below 10 deg Celsius for the warmest month. In the Faroes it means […]
Read More…The island of Vagar in March. Finally here! It is a sunny day of March and absolutely breathtaking views. We start with a 10 km hike righ away, having our suitcases with us in our rental car. We are still on our way from the airport to Torshavn. It means hiking in the island of […]
Read More…The average temperature of the warmest month (July) exceeds 10°C in the lowlands of southern and western Iceland, but is below that in other parts of the country. This makes the larger part of Iceland belonging to the arctic climate zone. Sampling snow, ice and water in February in Iceland definately requires the right attitude. […]
Read More…Snow covers the Solheimajökull glacier and -surprise- its frozen melt lake, February 2019. Last time I saw the lake in winter time, it was not frozen. Surface snow and ice samples, as well as natural water samples, collected in the field in Iceland, will be filtered at the laboratory of the Sudurnes Science and Learning […]
Read More…Photo: The filtration system ready for laboratory work at the Sudurnes Science and Learning Center, Iceland, after field sampling. It is just amazing how much preparations are needed right before the field work can take place! Iceland will be the first place for us to start this winter-season’s field work. But, we did start a […]
Read More…The Faroes are small volcanic islands (can you find the tiny red text “Faroes” I wrote in the map?) situated between Norway, Iceland and Scotland. Some of the islands are connected by tunnels and bridges, or ferries. What to expect from Faroes in March? Faroes consist of 18 volcanic islands separated by narrow fjords. […]
Read More…In Harry Potter, snow shaped the magical world of Hogwarts, somewhere in Scotland. So, you might already know that there really is snow in Scotland. Actually, Cairngorms, a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland, is one of the longest recorded snow sites in the UK http://data.ecn.ac.uk/sites/ecnsites.asp?site=T12. And it gets even more amazing: each […]
Read More…About us #2 will tell you more about us four, it will be about our personal bio (while About us #1 was the bio of the Black blog). Summer is here! Our Finnish-Icelandic-Czech-Swedish BLACK team is very much looking forward to the season 2018-2019 field work in Faroes, Iceland, and Scotland! Let us introduce you […]
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Arctic Research 