It is that time that you have all been waiting for. Anyone who was reading this blog last year will recall a lot of statements along the lines of “I’m sure we will get some data tomorrow” or “I will get some data soon. Well the time has finally come where I can say that […]

Your equipment is irreparably broken. These are not words you want to hear 2 weeks before your shipment leaves for the final and most vital fieldwork season for your PhD research. Even though that precise phrase was not used, that was the gist of the email that I received yesterday morning. My heart and stomach […]

Now as I haven’t done any field Geophysics since last year, I decided that the best thing to do prior to going to the field, would be to complete a practice survey. This is especially important for seismic surveys, where set-up is extremely important, AND time consuming. It also gave me and Clemens a chance […]

So for those who are interested, here is some technical stuff, for a more in depth description of what I plan to do in the field, and why I am doing this. The overall aim of this project is to measure the changes in the microscale air and water content stored between ice crystals. We […]