I haven't really moved from my desk today but I've been vaguely conscious of this large pyramid shaped iceberg moving all day. It's too slow to see, but each time I look up it has clearly moved right.
Funnily enough, the paper I'm currently working on is also about #icebergs #iceMelange and sea ice in northern #Greenland ...

#Ilulissat #Grønland

The start of the mélange zone in front of Melville Glacier, massive and fresh icebergs formed an ice wall. Large calving event this week, slightly unusual so early in the year and with so much fast ice, unfortunately we missed recording it but our instruments will get the next one. Greenland loses around half of it's ice by calving so it's an important process to understand.
This glacier is clearly very dynamic.

It's an incredible field site, the glacier is continuously pushing and heaving and you can hear it while you're there. Lots of seals around on the sea ice too and many polar fox tracks...

Some long days and no internet so posting a few late pictures now with some fieldwork updates. Satellite image from ESA's Sentinel 2 mission, processed on snapplanet

#Greenland #Grønland #kalaallitnunaat🇬🇱 #fieldwork #Fieldphoto #Fieldwork2024 #Ice #snow #glacier #MelvilleGlacier #Iceberg #IceMelange #Sikussaq #NCKF #DMI #ESA #Snapplanetio