Well today we were fortunate enough to get to go visit ____'s camp just offshore from the Polar Continental Shelf Program base here in Resolute Bay Nunavut.
Ido Hatam (our biologist collaborator) and I went out with CJ Mundy and his team to his camp (they even picked us up on their skidoos so that we could go and take some ice cores.
We took an ice core here in Resolute Bay last year, so it is nice to get another one again this year. Plus this ice is first year ice and is different from the ice we get in Alert.
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| A core of first year sea ice that was used for measuring the temperature profile of the ice. Note the brownish tinge to the right (bottom) side of the core. |
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| A closer look at the brown smudge on the ice core, it's algal growth of some sort. Note the time stamp is Edmonton time (1 hour back of local). |
The camp is very nice with lots of experiments going on such as Eddy Co-Variance flux systems, CO2 flux through the ice, ice thickness, snow depth, albedo, light transmission and lots of biological work. They also do measurements of the ocean currents below the ice. Their project is interdisciplinary and international, like ours. In exchange for helping us take 3 ice cores (2 for Ido and one for our group to do texture and salinity analysis), we will collect two cores for one of their team in Alert in the thicker, older multiyear ice.
Today I rode out on to the sight on the back of the skidoo, and then back from the site on the komatik sledge that is towed behind it.
Well that is all for today. Hope you are enjoying the nice weather. Here it is also quite nice, quite different from three weeks ago as it is now around -17 when before it was -28 - -35.
Have a good day, look for another post soon
Justin and the CASIMBO 2011 team
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