My trip to the Greenland Ice Sheet June 2018

Today is the last day before leaving for a field trip to Greenland. I will not visit the places that visitors of Greenland usually go to, but stay for about 3 weeks in a camp in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.  together with an international group of scientists as part of the East GReenland Ice coring Project (EGRIP). The only thing I have seen of the camp until now is the webcam photograph below. It looks exciting, and also like an adventure.

If you want to check on the weather situation in the next days the webcam photograph and the weather data are available here: Webcam and Weather Information EGRIP

Picture of the EGRIP webcam, from http://weather.egrip.camp/

At the moment the temperature at EGRIP is above -11ºC, which makes it the warmest day this season! Yes, it is still cold, because it is far in the north, and also high. The EGRIP camp is located about 2700 m above sea level, and basically everything below it is ice. The main goal of the EGRIP project is to drill all the way to the bottom and recover the ice for analysis, but I will write about this later. The location of the EGIP drilling site is 75.63ºN, -35.99ºW, which is quite in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.