Land, fast ice and lead (covered with new ice)
The theatre at NARL
Ice station Beaufort Sea
Sunny day at the Beaufort location
coring with the electric drill
Klaus Meiners, Univ. Yale
Klaus and the ice corer
Reading the light sensors
Kate Wedemeyer, our MMS contact person
Kate writes the data sheet
Kate takes the light readings
ice station Beaufort - note the sediment layer in the ice core
sediment loaden ice cores from the Beaufort site
Preparing for plankton sampling
Light, temperature and salinity sensors
Getting ready to measure the light
Bodil and Mette pump water through a plankton net
Bodil and Mette process the sediment core
sediment core
surface of the cored sediment
Rolf and Mette measuring the ice temperature
ice auger
temperature in the ice (-11.2 °C)
looking on the computer screen on a sunny day...
Mette, cutting ice core
Sang's in situ incubation
bringing out the amphipod trap
the famous Alaskan blue foam
packing the sled
Nice day, today.