We are at 87o 16.99N 002o 51.97W, The air temperature is -0.9C, foggy, and the wind was up to 13 m/s, sometimes with heavy snow in the afternoon but sunny after 20:00. Today we set up our lead ice camp: a hut and a platform. The hut will provide protection from the cold and any wandering polar bear. We store, prepare and repair equipment as well as enjoy our food there! We will deploy and launch our surface microlayer sampling boats from the platform; it has a small winch to lift and move equipment and a safety line along the back, as we are right at the edge of the ice.
The seal came back. We collected 80 liters of subsurface seawater to bring back to the ship to sample for various things. The cold wind makes working outside slow.
All groups are either setting up camp or sampling from Oden. The meteorologists are assembling 2 masts (15m and 30m tall), each with different meteorological or aerosol instruments. The physical oceanographers have drilled a hole inside their tent and are deploying a string of instruments down to 10 m under the ice. The aerosol and gas chemistry labs continue sampling from the ship round the clock with their automated systems. The helicopter has done a few science flights. Only the people who work on the ice are allowed off the ship; in our group that has been Paty, Andy, Carlton and Johan for now. Some of the scientists with automated systems on the ship would really like to get off the ice but no "touring" is allowed for the time being. You can see the ship next to the ice floe and the layout in the attached pictures.
The days run fast into each other....
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