RECAP Field diaries

The REnland ice CAp Project (RECAP) started the 1st of January 2014. The project has been funded by the Saper Aude programme of the Danish Research Council.

High temperatures in the drill tent

6 June 2015

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Today it was too warm in the drill tent to start drilling...

Celebration in the drill tent

5 June 2015

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Five hundred meters depth reached today at 6 am/pm!!!

Well preserved 4000 year old ice

4 June 2015

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Today we probably reached a major ~4000 years old volcanic layer...

High speed drilling

3 June 2015

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Drilling is speeding up with 27 m core drilled today...

Cutting ice is not that easy

2 June 2015

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The cutting of the ice cores into 55 cm long pieces has caused some troubles...

Experiments and breaks in cores

1 June 2015

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Jakob has brought a setup for fast access miniature drilling to be tested...

Old and New Renland

31 May 2015

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Today we had a flight mission with the Polar 6 aircraft...

Time Zone Confusion

30 May 2015

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Yesterday’s crew exchange with Polar 6 is impacting life in camp these days...

New people in camp

29 May 2015

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We had hoped to get the first flight with departure Thursday afternoon from Constable Point, but...

Preparing for coming flights

28 May 2015

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We are getting close to the mid-season flight period...