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Svalbard: Internet Explorer thumb nailsPhotos from the 2002 campagn on Lomonosovfonna and from 2001 are available.Ramac radar 50 MHz antennas and with higher resolution 200 MHz antennas. We also profiled numerous other smaller glaciers in the region such as Tuvbreen. The radar was very good in general, though of course there were repairs that need doing as well - with always excellent help from the Poles, especially Piotr Glowacki, and always with time for a nice beer with our gallant leader. Some pictures by the Poles are here. Antarctica: Internet Explorer thumb nailsPhotos of the trips:General view of scenery Travelling with sledges and scooters A blue ice area Closer look at blue ice Drilling in blue ice The drill stuck in blue ice Sucess in drilling Ice from a crevass we drilled into 50MHz radar profiling GPS surveying of ice flow stakes Some pictures by Dan Zwartz:
Cold Room and Ion Chromatography: Internet Explorer thumb nailsKristiina Virkkunen, Jari Vehviläinen and Teija Kekonen have spent a lot of time working on processing ice samples for chemistry analysis. Here is a few photos and descriptions of how they spend their fun hours.FINNARP glacier training course, Okstinden, Norway
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Miscellaneous Photographs: Internet Explorer thumb nailsHispar Glacier, Karakorum Mountains, PakistanAn old picture from Antarctica in 1986 Two from Svalbard showing the radar before and after a bit of an accident on Lovenbreen in Svalbard View of Finse station near to Hardangerjökulen, Norway, where we did some radar stuff for a recent paper Drilling a shallow core on Kongsvegen, Svalbard Stephan Gruber on his 26 day solo walk down Lapland from Kilpisjarvi to Kvikkjokk, Sweden One of the nice frozen water falls in early winter in Korouma, 100 km east of Rovaniemi (I've got none of the climbing photos here). A thin section of sea ice from the Baltic Sea taken with cross-polarizing filters to show each crystal (snow ice are round crystals, sea ice are eleongated) The radar in operation (actually not exactly working at this point!) on Storglacieren, Tarfala Valley, Sweden An advert for a course we are running in Finland, featuring Storgläcieren (again). View of Kebnekaise South Top in August 1996 Myself and Pekka Maijala setting up the radar in Switzerland in front of the Matterhorn (its a hard life glaciology!) |