We spent the first day scouting out possible field sites. We prepared as possible in in advance, - via Google Earth, maps and landcover products, talking to people familiar with the area, reading the literature, but it’s never quite the same as being there on the ground. We’d earmarked some possible sites from GoogleEarth, - … Continue reading Identifying field sites and first measurements
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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. … Continue reading Subarctic-Arctic Iceland: Snow, ice and water for chemical analysis of Black Carbon and volcanic dust
This post first appeared on lembrechtsjonas.wordpress.com. When summer treats you kindly in the Arctic, there is no better place to be. Summers are short up in the north, however, so you'll need to be lucky to catch them. We were very lucky this year, and were offered countless beautiful summer days up in the north. … Continue reading Catching the Arctic summer
Tomorrow I’ll be starting to blog at Arctic Research Blogs, a blog site of INTERACT, an EU H2020 project, along with other scientists conducting research related field work on a wide variety of topics, but all related to the Arctic and northern environment, in season 2018/2019. Welcome to follow the blog “Black & Snowy Stories … Continue reading Welcome to join the Arctic Research Blog of Black and Snowy Stories from the Faroes, Iceland and Scotland
Summer 2012. I was a young masters student, spending my first month of many above the polar circle. I joined a global consortium called MIREN, the Mountain Invasion Research Network, that surveyed plant invasions along roads in mountain regions scattered across the globe. With 3 roads in the north of Norway, close to Narvik, we … Continue reading 5 years later
We are back in Abisko after two months. Right before the start of the rainy autumn weather - it might fall upon us on our last day - we are here to harvest the seedlings of our two-year experiment. We take a week to skim the mountains and bring down the harvest to the research … Continue reading Back to the top
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