We woke up to a spectacularly clear day; we can see the sun bright and yellow in the sky. We have shadows. At 0900, it was only -4C. However, the lead is frozen over with new, clear sea ice that does not seem to be there in certain places. Many people tried to go for a ski or a walk but the fog would roll in and out. Fog = no walk! Fog and/or clouds= fog and cloud water (both being very difficult to obtain)! Frozen lead= no samples? Ah! We broke the ice to sample subsurface water and brought a bucket of new sea ice to sample (once it melts inside the fridge). At 1800, the air temperature started to decrease and, by 21:00, it reached -9C to -10C (14-16F) where it has stayed until now, at midnight. At 00:25 of Monday, the sky is still blue, bright and crisp; the ice and snow reflect the sunlight making everything even brighter. We are at 87o 10.33N, 010o 07.59W.
We had a very nice Sunday night dinner, duck breast, scalloped-creamy potatoes, salad and ice cream for desert. We are supposed to dress up for Sunday dinner; some do, some don't. Then it is back to the lab to finish filtering (carlton), run samples in the gas chromatograph (Andy), continue running experiments and photographing with the microscope (Paty and Monica), move equipment and boxes from lead to ship (Johan) while Qiu Ju (= Chrysanthemum) Gao (U Stockholm; C. Leck's graduate student) (our tireless lab mate) filters and filters 100's of liter of seawater.
Till Tuesday, as today- Monday- is our last sampling day!
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