off to Greenland, expedition 17
I’m sitting in Columbus airport, about to embark my 17th Greenland mission.
Field work includes, in chronological order.
6 July, commercial air transit to Schenectedy, NY via Philadelphia and Albany, NY.
7 July, LC130 hercules (cargo class) transit to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland with 109th Air National Guard
8 July, AIr Greenland transit to Ilulissat, Greenland. 20 minutes after sche3duled arrived, we have a Bell 222 helicopter charter to Jakobshavn Glacier (the northern hemisphere’s largest), to film in support of a Nova program on Extreme Ice Survey. I’ll be on camera as the guy who measures ice motion using repeat stereo-photography.
9 July, testing camera equipment and installing a camera looking at icebergs near Ilulissat.
10 July, transit to Uummannaq
11 July, weather delay, icing conditions and fog, we’re now aiming now for Monday, 14 July, do it all in 1 day, perhaps as 1 round trip flight not 2, cheaper, if we can fit all in helo.
12 July, boat charter to measure fjord water temperature, salinity, and turbidity profiles in the very deep (600-1000m+) fjord, at a peak melt time of year…We are are staying with a translator who is so huge a help, pantomimes and cartoons of winches on boats aren’t doing it!
13 July, Sunday, prepare for all day flying 14 July
14 July, helicopter charter, recovering equipment from Store Glacier, west Greenland:
- time lapse cameras that have been shooting at 15 minute intervals since late May.
- a climate station from Store Glacier
- on-glacier GPS of Ian Howat
- on-land seismometers of Slawek Tulaczyk
16 July, meet with fisherman to hire the next day to deliver us to the shore of the land near Umiamiko Glacier.
17 July, transit to Umiamiko Glacier
20 July, transit to Rink Glacier
23 July, transit to Ilulissat
25 July, transit to Kangerlussuaq
27 July, transit to NY with Air National Guard
March 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
An interesting log. I have a rare copy of William Bradfords 1872 book “Arctic Regions” which chronicals and describes the voyage of the ‘Panther’ from St John to Greenland in 1869. The book is unique in that it features about 125 photographs made by Bradford and the Boston based photographers Dunmore and Critcherson. The book records their trip which covered the west coast between Julianhab (Qaqortoq) and the ‘Devils Thumb’ on Melville Bay.
I am interested in retracing the “Panther’s ” route and re-photographing and documenting the current conditions at sites visited by the 1869 expedition. I would welcome any sugestions you might have particularly the names and contact information on boats/local guides in various locations.
Thank you for any useful information you can provide.