We are currently sitting in the departure lounge of Copenhagen airport, awaiting our transfer to Aberdeen having departed from the Faroe Islands earlier this morning. It has been a busy last few days and we have been rushing to make sure that we have all the material required to conduct our continued analyses. We had a moment of fear […]

You would never believe what we have been doing for the past few days……. hunting down more moraines and coring to greater depths! On Tuesday, Brice and Matteo focused on corrie systems to the West and South of Torshavn, mapping and sampling both moraines and erratics. Meanwhile, palaeoecological work revisited a Torshavn bog where borehole […]

It has been a busy few days here in the Faroe Islands! On Saturday we presented our work to an audience of enthusiastic local earth and environmental scientists. The turn-out was impressive with around 0.1% of the entire Faroese population attending (oh yes!). In the UK this would be equivalent to approximately 600,000 people, however […]

“Dreich” may be a word of old Scots origin (see: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dreich%20(Old%20Scots%20origin)), however we feel that it transcends linguistic boundaries and is best placed to describe the conditions encountered today. Not to be discouraged, we set about making the best of our situation and ended up being thoroughly productive. Brice and Matteo mapped the clearest set […]

Today, our group split into two teams. Kevin and Ed began their search for a sequence containing Late Glacial organic material whilst Brice and Matteo ventured into the hills to begin collecting rock samples for cosmogenic nuclide dating. The morning sunshine provided an ideal backdrop for our first experience of this beautiful landscape, and although […]