Frustration
Frustration reigns amongst the scientific staff at the moment. Initial problems with the triggering of the source were sorted yesterday afternoon. However we then discovered that the ship is a very noisy one acoustically speaking! Whilst the equipment was behaving perfectly, any return signal was being masked by the ship’s engines. Various options were discussed and tried, in liaison with the ship’s captain and crew, but at 11pm local time we decided to call it a night and start again in the morning.
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Sunday
Stop in Qeqertarsuaq (Big Island) on Disko island for walks to warm springs (1 to 6 degrees? – warm a relative concept), and a chance to walk in the town and surrounding hills and black basalt beaches. There are a couple of Greenlanders with us as guides throughout the trip, Karin and Ludovik. Both are Greenlanders who have a Danish education. Karin works in tourism, but also has a geology background. A good contingent head for church (L’s grandfather is the Pastor). The big draw is that the Lutheran service is in Greenlandic – a rare chance to engage directly with Greenlanders on the trip, though the turnout per head of population turns out to be not much over the average English midlands C of E crowd. But engage we do with a perhaps misplaced have-a-go attitude to singing along with the hymns.
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Sunday 28th September - Technical Hitches
For the science team, Sunday was a day that we’d rather forget, so I’ll keep it quick. Whilst the rest of the group went ashore to visit a Greenlandic settlement and even see an iceberg tip over, we were sat in a container full of dysfunctional kit! The geophysics side managed to get all theirs working, only to find that the ship was too noisy to hear the sea bed returns and the Oceanography side failed to get the software to read the data from the CTD. It wasn’t all that bad though, plenty of hope, and a Marcus who can always be relied upon to cheer us up!
Have a look at the previous days…
Disembarkment at Godhavn
After almost 24 hours constantly on the boat the crew got the opportunity to explore Greenlands soil as well when disembarking at Godhavn.
Godhavn
More images of Godhavn
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Facing the Arctic
Vanessa Carlton
Martha Wainwright and Jonathan Dove
More images from Feist, Sam, Ko and David
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What can we do?
On board we have many discussions on climate change and what responses might be globally needed to mitigate its dramatic development. We also have more formal lectures, which are a great way to spark debate.
Simon Boxall and the team of scientist spoke about the facts behind the science of climate change and illustrated the scientific experiments that are going to take place in the next 10 days to measure the currents and the composition of the sea bed..
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Work on board of the Grigory Mikheev
Dr Carol Cotterill reviews the charts and prepares a marine geophysical survey line plan.
All about the science.
More images
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Ahoy, icebergs!
It appears that virtually none of us aboard the Grigoriy Mikheev are early risers, so Cape Farewell captain David Buckland made sure to inject his 7 a.m. wake-up announcement with a little info that he knew would have his troops on their feet in a heartbeat.
“If you look outside of your window,” he began, “you’ll see a pretty big iceberg.”
First icebergs. Photo: Nathan Gallagher
Minutes later, the cafeteria was abuzz with the din of excited artists and scientists getting their morning tea and coffee before boarding the Zodiac rafts for shore. It was the first time any of us had set foot on dry land since Friday.
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David Buckland and the expedition so far
Having made it on the boat without losing any of the crew members David is looking forward to the trip.
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KT Calling
Since on the coast of Greenland and on the sea telephone, mobile and broadband won’t get you far the communication runs over satellites in order to get images, video footage and text back to the dry land and onto the blog. This needs at least two persons: one working the computer, one trying to locate the satellite - a job which was done with great patience by KT Tunstall. Sadly the connection broke of soon after this footage was made…
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