Leaving Antarctica with computers full of data, notebooks full of notes + numbers and just about as much kit as we brought (+ some waste for correct disposal). Travelling out via the gobsmacking #WhiteDesert.
#Antarctica, you've been wonderful, who knows when we'll meet again... #iQ2300

Leaving Antarctica with computers full of data, notebooks full of notes + numbers and just about as much kit as we brought (+ some waste for correct disposal). Travelling out via the gobsmacking #WhiteDesert. #Antarctica, you've been wonderful, who knows when we'll meet again... #iQ2300

First stretch on the way home.... Yes I have #FlightShame #Flygskam.
But honestly, flying at 5000m in an unpressurized cabin is more of an "Experience" than a luxury.
Last evening in #Antarctica at #WolfsFang
#iQ2300

Not quite sunset yet, but #WinterIsComing

#Antarctica #iQ2300

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

"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

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

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

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