Land of the midnight photosynthesis

And just like that, our field work is more than halfway done! We arrived back in Nuuk after 6 nights at the Kobbefjord field station. While Kobbefjord isn’t far from Nuuk (25 km or so – about a half an hour boat ride), it’s nice to wake up and have the stream we’re monitoring (as […]

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Revisiting Sisimiut

After a long voyage from Florida to Iceland and then on to Greenland, we’re officially in the field! Before starting our work in Kobbefjord, we took a little detour to Sisimiut, the second largest city in Greenland, where we have been collecting water samples and monitoring stream discharge since 2017. The goal of our trip […]

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Goodbye Florida, Hello Nuuk!

The countdown has officially begun for our trip to Nuuk, the largest city and capital of Greenland! We’ll spend three weeks at the Greenlandic Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) and in the field collecting water samples from streams draining into the nearby fjord of Kobbefjord, which is a short boat ride from the city. Prepping […]

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