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Low angle but intense sun and sublimation have made these hedgehog like spines in the blue ice. They're like angled penitentes (usually found at high altitude, low latitude locations). Extraordinary #StrangeIce phenomena, #iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #FieldPhoto

The Arctic Coastal Erosion Model - Overview, Developments, and Calibration at Drew Point, Alaska
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https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.174086594.45589925/v1 <-- shared paper
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#Alaska #permafrost #coastalerosion #Arctic #permafrost #modeling #climateresilience #coast #coastal #erosion #sloughing #coastline #polaramplification #climatechange #ArcticCoastalErosion #ACE #model #modeling #oceanographic #atmospheric #oceanic #finiteelement #thermoabrasion #storm #stormsurge #fieldwork #calibration #geomechanics #sediments #geochemistry
#SandiaNationalLaboratories #USGS

I've been up in the North Canterbury mountains this week, helping to teach our third-year undergraduate field ecology research course at #LincolnUniversityNZ. It was great fun, as always, helping students to carry out their first ecology research projects.

I'm collapsed back home, and very tired, after a week of long days outside then nights spent at the moth light. I've got a small mountain of photos to sort out and upload. That can wait until another day but here's a small taste.

#ecology #fieldwork #fieldTrip #nz #BoyleRiverOutdoorEducationCentre #Boyle

A photo of five students at night gathered around our moth light, a bright mercury vapour bulb set on a small tripod above a white sheet. You can see moths settled on the sheet and others swirling about the bulb.

A photo of two students botanising in the tussock and herb fields above the forest tree line up Mount Faust. Far down in the background you can see the valley floor where the Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre is where we stayed. We spend the day walking up the mountain from there to collect daisy seed heads.

A photo of four people (I'm bottom left) near the top of Mount Faust, with the Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre building far off in the distance down on the valley floor. Connor, top left, was doing his project on the insects that each daisy seeds and we all climbed the mountain with him to help.

A photo of two students working in forest. Ashley, on the ground, is setting out a peanut butter baited tracking tunnel at one of our stations for monitoring pest mammals in the forest. For her project, Ashley will be using the past 15 years of class data on mammals and birds to see how the pest mammals affect the forest's bird populations. Abby, standing, is measuring the diameter of one of the trees, as part of her project that's looking at how forest structure affects birds.

These ice lenses are giving me a tough time in processing today, they're everywhere. But if I believe the satellite data, they also shouldn't exist. It appears we are underestimating surface melt* in Antarctica.

*But not runoff! These are refrozen meltwater layers

#iQ2300 #DronningMaudLand #Fieldwork

"Good morning LISA - and how are *you* feeling today?"

Probably the last (long) day in our temporary lab at Wasa today. 10m of cores to process, collected from the ice sheet yesterday, but also a nice view to keep me company.
Reward will be genuine Finnish sauna at the neighbouring Finnish research station this evening, where we also have much #science to discuss!

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #FieldPhoto

View over deep snow drifts to the glacier beyond and a rocky black nunatak under a blue sky

A polystyrene box containing a mess of electronic instruments and plastic lines - the LISA Box

Cylyndical cores of ice with darker bands representing refrozen meltwater lie in half tubes in the snow with a ruler for scale

Found the reflector!

Clément spotted a bright layer on a radargram taken over this glacier earlier in the season, so today we went back and drilled through 15m of snow and firn and nice to see what it was: a ~3cm thick layer of clear refrozen meltwater.

This one is coming with us for chemical analysis (along with the other 15m of core). Tomorrow will be a busy day in the lab.
We found many of these kinds of refrozen meltwater layers through the core, with lots of interesting features in the snow and firn pack associated with them. As so often in science, in seeking to answer one question, we end up asking many more as a result.
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #Fieldphoto

A black -gloved hand holds up a 5cm thick section of an ice core, with the rim side facing the camera showing a thick band of clear ice between bubbly ice layers. The sky behind is dark blue and there is a snow cover on the ground

Long days in the lab...

I have spent the last 2 days processing shallow snow and firn cores in the lab, this is the last one (for now). Really nice datasets coming out, but a lot of concentration required.

At least I have a great view (when I remember to look up).

#iQ2300 #WasaStation #Antarctica #Fieldwork #LabView #LabWork #LISAbox

#alohavibes #fieldwork #fieldworkbrewingco #fieldworkbrewing #oraclepark #sfgiants #chinabasin #missionrock #soma #downtownsf #doomloop #sfhellscape #sfba #funko #funkospop #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscobay #esseff #thecity #bayarea

Heading back to Wasa after a few nights out in the field...
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #FieldPhoto #PolarForskningsSekretariatet

#whitedahlia #fieldwork #fieldworkbrewingco #fieldworkbrewing #oraclepark #sfgiants #chinabasin #missionrock #soma #downtownsf #doomloop #sfhellscape #sfba #funko #funkospop #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscobay #esseff #thecity #bayarea

View from my sleeping bag this morning through the ark window at our neighbours, a post for #FensterFreitag #FensterFriday

Later I had to o dig out the samples I'd put in my snow pit to keep cold.
The cold wasn't a problem but the fresh snow was...
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #FieldPhoto

Adventures in playing in traffic: Today *I* get to bring photos of animals and random crap back to myself and hang out in weird places! #fieldWork

Photo of a vulture gliding across a blue sky

Photo of a cardboard sign left in the grass along a highway, reading "I come for the Hookers and the BLOW" with other trash visible

Photo of the underside of a 4+ lane highway overpass taken from the side of an onramp. Graffiti is visible on the back wall.

A relationship with your own truth.
A relationship with your own lineage.
A relationship with your own contradictions.
A relationship with your own becoming.
#relationalanthrpology #anthropology #fieldsite #fieldwork #5Fields

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Snow layers: I'm quite fascinated by these ice lenses, not melt exactly but glaze, very thin (~1mm) and a product of high winds and intense solar radiation
From last night's snow pit...

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #FieldPhoto

For the past week four of us from #LincolnUniversityNZ were based at Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula, NZ. We visited a set of monitoring sites in and out of the predator control area of the Predator Free Banks Peninsula project. Predator Free Banks Peninsula is primarily targetting brush-tailed possums at the moment and we're interested in how that is affecting birds, lizards, and invertebrates.

We've been doing this for several years so we're also interested in what the general trends are in these animals in this amazing landscape.

We counted, weighed, and photographed all the lizards in our lizard shelters (mostly geckos). Jennifer Gillette is using the unique patterns on geckos' backs and irises to track individuals over the years.

We also brought in our audio recorders, which monitored birds and, optimistically, bats. Bats haven't officially been detected on Banks Peninsula in decades. There's still hope so we put out bat recorders in several of the areas of oldest forest.

We also brought in our invertebrate pitfall traps.

We've got three more days on the Peninsula this coming week, then we can get stuck into identifying the specimens, processing the data, and finding our what the patterns and trends are.

#ecology #fieldwork #EcologicalMonitoring #BanksPeninsula #NZ

A photo of my hand holding a mesh bag containing four geckos, while in the background Jennifer Gillette is making measurements on another gecko. Once the measurements and photos are made, the geckos are carefully released back into their shelter.

A photo of student Max Mulvihill as we walked down through the young forest of Panama Rock. Max is carrying a box filled with 12 pitfall traps that we've just got from further up in the reserve. Off in the distance is the white university ute waiting to pick us up before we head off to our next site.

A photo of Jennifer Gillette and summer student Sam looking for one of our lizard shelters, while student Max admires the view. We're on the grassy flank of a hillside overlooking Akaroa harbour.

A photo of our audio recorder set up. We use two AudioMoths for birds, one set to record in the daytime and the other in the nighttime (so we can record for longer) and there's also a black tubular DOC AR4 recorder which we set to record at higher frequencies to detect any bats that might be present.

On the road (cont’d), Karnataka, India 2025 Ricoh GR1, Fuji 400 #Fieldwork #India #BelieveInFilm

A small roadside stand under a tree with people out front and a parked motorcycle. Shot from a moving car so there is motion blur.

Another roadside stand, this one closed, shot from a moving car.

#rainbowparfait #alohavibes #sourbeer #fieldwork #fieldworkbrewingco #fieldworkbrewing #oraclepark #sfgiants #chinabasin #missionrock #soma #downtownsf #doomloop #sfhellscape #sfba #funko #funkospop #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscobay #esseff #thecity #bayarea

I have been inside the last couple of days due to weather, and misbehaving kit. One compensation is the view outside the "lab" window ..
#iQ2300 #Fieldwork #Labwork #LabPhoto #FensterFreitag #FieldworkPhoto #Antarctica #WasaStation

A large crescent shaped snowdrift is lit by low angle sun with jagged rocks on the ground. In the distance, a snow covered glacier with a rising nunatak of black rock and flowing glaciers on the horizon under dramatic clouds.

The same view framed by the window with an ice core in a plastic tube to one side.

The Polar might is drawing in, the neighbouring nunatak
Ploegen, with the sun almost setting behind it.
#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #PolarScience #ClimateScience #FieldPhoto #FieldworkPhoto

On the road, Karnataka, India 2025 Ricoh GR1, Fuji 400 #Fieldwork #India #BelieveInFilm

#fieldwork

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