Crazily enough, a small team of us had been working in that exact thin ice channel the day before, installing some instruments to try and observe ice growth. Then de installing on whale visit day!
Somewhat nerve wracking, especially seeing a seal chew its way through while we were there. Here's a view looking away from where the whale came to say hi - a thin ice region with snow cover (a refrozen lead), surrounded by thicker, heavier ice and deeper snow.
Another wander back to 2012 and the SIPEXII expedition. At the last sampling site (unplanned, we were stuck) - we had a visit from a Minke whale!
It decided to expand a hole that a seal made the day before - in ice about 10cm thick and not quite solidly frozen - for some room to breathe. The whale hung around for quite a while, returning to this spot to grab air.
It was .. very spectacular.
#FieldworkFriday: Sometimes the smallest finds tell the biggest stories. 🏺
Douglass et al. explore how sparse artifact scatters can reveal long-term patterns of land use. Using cases from Australia and the US, they show why documenting every the find is key.
#FieldworkFriday: Reconnecting families with ancestral homes. 🏔️🏠
Cheng shares collaborative work with Bunun communities in Taiwan. By combining roots-seeking trips with lidar, researchers and descendants documented former settlements in the Lakulaku River Basin. 🏺
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/advances-in-archaeological-practice/article/root-seeking-and-remote-sensing-with-the-bunun-in-the-mountains-of-taiwan/DAD59B184BA28988C118ACAF97F9ECD0
It’s an exciting #FieldworkFriday for me today — I’m travelling from -2 °C snow in Denmark to 22 °C in Najaf, #Iraq!
Together with my colleagues Tobias Richter from Copenhagen and Jaafar Jotheri from Al Qadisiyah University, I’ll be scouting out potential sites for future fieldwork as part of #AEGIS (https://aegisearth.bio). It’s my first time in Iraq so I cannot wait to finally see all the places I’ve been reading about since I was student!
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On this #FieldworkFriday here's a look at a Dust^2 team as they near the end of a day in the field.
Take a deeper trip into the field with Cluster member Jeff Munroe in our video series called The Collectors Tour: https://bit.ly/CollectorsTourPlaylist
In this stop along the Collectors Tour Jeff answers the question: what happens when it snows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6JL3eB_Cic&list=PLELOz7SwUyhPEQvpNAuo9cK_rZMPiNvV4&index=14&t=11s
In October, 2024 Jeff Munroe (Middlebury College) spent nearly three weeks traveling to 20 mineral dust collectors deployed on mountain summits in the southwestern United States for the DUST^2 Project, part of the Critical Zone Collaborative Network. This short film documents the majestic landscapes in which the collectors are located, and provides a sense of what it’s like to conduct such a long stretch of solo fieldwork.
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