Well I am back in the Arctic, Resolute Bay to be precise (roughly 75N,95W... If my memory serves me right; it often does not). Okay so really I am writing this on my phone while we are in the air, as my computer is acting up (hard drive problems= 1st thing to go wrong this trip)
This trip I am with Alec Casey, Ido Hatam, Ben Lange and Anne Bublitz. Alec is a PhD student at the U of A in my research group;we share an office and Alec works with satellite images to provide new measurements of sea ice, such as thickness and roughness. Ido Hatam is a PhD student in microbiology at the U of A; he is studying the population dynamics if the microbial communities in the sea ice. Ben Lange is a PhD student at the Alfred Wegener Polar and Marine Research Institute in Germany. Ben is a sea ice biophysicist studying the biology associated with the bottom of the ice. This year Ben is looking at the penetration of light into and through the sea ice.
Anna is a PhD student at York University, a geophysicist by training she is on her first trip to the Canadian High Arctic. She is going to be learning the trade and helping Alec and I learn more about electromagnetic induction.
I am collecting sea ice thickness, snow depth and surface roughness information for the validation and calibration of measurments of sea ice from airborne laser altimeters, airborne electromagnetic induction and Cryosat-2 a satellite radar altimeter.
We will be in Resolute Bay until Friday when we will take a Twin Otter to Alert. We will do measurements on the ice that is frozen to the shore for the first week or so and then we will hopefully use a plane to do a couple of landings on sea ice, drop some buoys and our regular measurements. Stay tuned for more examples of the measurements details on the buoys and some pictures.
Bye for now!
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