Yuyan was born in the United States but spent much of his early childhood with his #Nanai grandmother in northern #Manchuria, which is the #Chinese portion of #Siberia.
Bière brassée au... Groenland! Trouvée complètement par hasard avant Noël dans un Vinbuðin (seule chaîne autorisée à vendre des boissons alcoolisées en Islande) et depuis j'enquête pour remettre la main dessus... Sans succès.
Ukaliusaq, polar kæruld, Arctic bog cotton, in the low spring sun.
Our GNSS buoys in the glacier mélange are named after birds, fish and mammals and our snow site sensors are named after plants. I don't speak Greenlandic at all (yet), but this is a great way to learn a few words...
French photographer Juliette Pavy is the overall winner of the annual Sony World Photography Awards for her documentary project about the sterilization of women in Greenland, and will receive a cash prize of $25,000. Here's more from CNN about her project, which was entered into the documentary category. You can also learn more about some of the winners of other categories, including Liam Man, a landscape photographer from the U.K., who took the otherworldly "Moonrise Sprites over Storr," and Valery Poshtarov of Bulgaria, who won the portraiture category for his series “Father and Son.”
"MG: The ice isn't disappearing. I mean, it turns into water. It has to go somewhere. So, when it ends up in the oceans, what does that mean?
WC: Oh, boy. It's pretty complicated, actually. So, Greenland is losing so much ice. In addition to the study that just came out, this is... they're just talking about, 40 million tons of the floating ice at the edge of the ice sheet. But all together, the ice sheet is losing about 5 X more than that or about, 9 or 10 thousand tons a second. It's so much ice that the gravity is weakening over Greenland. That has an impact on how the ocean is shaped.
MG: Sorry, the gravity is weakening over Greenland!
Because the displacement is less?
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
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
Some aerial views of Qaanaaq village: a quick upload of some test photos taken while testing the UAV - as you can see here, we also have a thermal camera on it too for studying thermal properties of the snow pack but it works equally well on humans and buildings, which amused no end the couple of kids who came to watch we fly it!
Should probably add #dogsOfPixelFed#DogsOfMastodon#DogsOfFedi to this one too.. https://pixelfed.social/p/IceClimate/682757737958876504 @IceClimate - The problem with Polar Day is that I never want to go to sleep. I went for a walk at 10.30pm instead. Much colder than earlier, about -16 C but also clearer and a view (finally) of the mountains on the other side of the fjord. But now I think these two have the right idea. God nat alle...