Old friends. Many miles and rocky paths we have traveled. We have seen landscapes hundreds of millions of years in the making.
We have traveled through sun scorched rock, icy slopes, and glassy shards. I have doffed you to protect you from stream crossings, and worn you through them when I could not.
Over decades, your utility has barely faded. My capacity to test your limits has been reduced.
🌖NEXT WEEK🌗
Tues April 30 18:30 (BST)
with @ana_valdi
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance'
Everybody welcome FREE, LIVE and online! Just turn up!
Ana Valdivia, Lecturer at Oxford Internet Institute, will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
**NB We can now use the front door in Taviton St again **
You can also join us on ZOOM (ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak)
Did I already share some pictures of the fabulous #geology of the Portugese southwest coast? #fieldwork#aardwetenschappen. Early up to be able to access some of the places at low water! @vuamsterdam
Fieldwork has been keeping me busy. Yesterday we found a Late #Neolithic (~2500 BC) sherd among our #BronzeAge farmsteads (~1500 BC). It could be a remnant of older occupation, or it could be an intrusive find because a busy badger dug a lot of tunnels in this area 🦡😂 #fieldwork
With the melt season well advanced, the #SeaIce + #IceMelange is starting to break up - our measurement buoys will soon be on their journey to the open water again.
Time to organise the rescue mission!
I just learned about #what3words - a 3-metre square grid system that uses a 3 word address to easily and memorably #communicate precise location information globally. Very helpful for #fieldwork in remote locations and #safety plans. The words are random, but coincidentally, the door to the building where our #wetland#ecology lab is based is at ///indoor.roaming.aquatic !
Are you a trans, non-binary, or gender diverse person who conducts research fieldwork or other types of fieldwork? The TGNC Fieldwork Alliance has finally published their first "Field Safety" zine for TGNC fieldworkers!
Please share with other folks you know who might find it useful!
Tracy glacier in NW #Greenland a Throwback Thursday photo from late March, prompted by the start of a couple of students who will be analysing some of the data we collected on this trip.
We are hiring! Field ecologist job. Travelling around collecting data, showing other people how to collect data, and bringing the data back for me (and others) to analyse!
This job has everything - drones, audiomoths, camera traps, cool locations, cool people, and you get to work with me.
#introduction - I'm Anya Reading - good to meet/connect!
Working on Antarctica (tectonics, ice sheet change, int. with ocean and atmosphere, inter disc. links). Focus on ground-based geophysics (esp. seismology) and compute. Professor of Geophysics at #UTAS#physics#comp_antarctic group, enabling/advocate for research, learning, #diversity in #stem.
With @merginmaps you can use Position Tracking and Streaming Mode when you're mapping in the field. This video that I made for the #MerginMaps YouTube channel explains the difference and shows how to digitize survey line and polygon layers using streaming mode: https://youtu.be/069-fXNqyJY?si=ao9VzU9a92jb9I5v
It also has some nice shots of the Kinderdijk UNESCO World Heritage Site!
Tarini Monga joins one of the Imagination Walks in Panjim, Goa along salt pans and reflects on material interactions within marshy spaces. This short field note from her diary highlights thoughts around shifty matter, changing forms of ownership and systems of land use in Goa. Read more for a glimpse into how new questions emerge during a walk through the city: https://s-and.org/blog/the-city-s-salted-rim-a-walk-through-goan-salt-pans
I'm having some issues with my normal pixel fed account so I've set up a new one just for fieldwork pictures @IceClimate - also re-upping the blog post on it. So of you are interested in gratuitous ice, snow and dog photos, head on over there and I'll try to avoid clogging up your mastodon feed...
The start of the mélange zone in front of Melville Glacier, massive and fresh icebergs formed an ice wall. Large calving event this week, slightly unusual so early in the year and with so much fast ice, unfortunately we missed recording it but our instruments will get the next one. Greenland loses around half of it's ice by calving so it's an important process to understand.
This glacier is clearly very dynamic.
It's an incredible field site, the glacier is continuously pushing and heaving and you can hear it while you're there. Lots of seals around on the sea ice too and many polar fox tracks...
Some long days and no internet so posting a few late pictures now with some fieldwork updates. Satellite image from ESA's Sentinel 2 mission, processed on snapplanet
Out on the ice with a bigger team today, here's a completely accidental drone shot showing our colleagues from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources deploying some instruments under the sea ice to measure ocean noise and narwhal populations.
DMI and GINR are collaborating in the EU #HorizonEurope project #ArcticPassion which this works contributes to. I was flying the drone and doing snow work for DMI that will be used in another EU project @polarRES, and it will probably also be used together with ESA satellite data: a nice example of EU projects working together in the #PolarRegions #Greenland#Grønland#Fieldwork#Fieldphoto#Fieldwork2024#Arctic#Snow#SeaIce#DMI#GINR#NCKF
On positioning: Every time I do sociolinguistic fieldwork or conduct interviews, people assume I am a student 🙃 I could decide to be angry, and I am, at a structural/systemic level, but I think I also use it to my advantage to minimize inherent power hierarchies... Thoughts?
Female #kakapo Kuihi during a transmitter change and health check on Whenua Hou today. We currently change transmitters every 1 - 1.5 years, but a new design in final stages of testing will last much longer and be easier to fit. #conservation#parrots#fieldwork.