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Cockpit’s View of Greenland’s Glaciers, Ice-Sheets, and Sea-Ice
The glaciers and ice-sheets of Greenland retreat and melt in a warming world. Towering almost 3000 meters above sea level the ice-sheet is so thick and heavy that it depresses the bedrock underneath...
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Petermann Photos, Places, and People
Petermann Gletscher sent off Manhattan-sized islands of ice in 2010 and 2012 that now litter the eastern seaboard of Canada from its farthest northern Ellesmere Island to its farthest eastern...
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Land-Fast Ice Cover off North Greenland: Will NASA bite?
When a large outlet glacier of North Greenland (Petermann Gletscher) discharged an ice island four times the size of Manhattan in August of 2010, the United States’ Congress held formal inquiries on...
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Thule on My Mind: Deep Water Port and Air Force Base
I am an air force brat. My father and my father-in-law enlisted in the German and US Air Forces, respectively. They served during the Cold War when I was born in 1961 a few month after the Berlin Wall...
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Travels by Mind to the Glaciers and Oceans off North-East Greenland
Our minds travel easier than the body. My eyes have never seen East Greenland, but I moved across its white glaciers, turquoise streams, green valleys, and black oceans many times. Reading expedition...
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Canyon below Ice at Petermann Gletscher
The Grand Canyon of Arizona stands tall in the mind as the Colorado River carved itself into 6000 feet of rock. A similar canyon has been discovered in northern Greenland near Petermann Gletscher. The...
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Petermann Ice Island visited by Vagabond
An ice-cube with a mass of 18 giga tons left Petermann Gletscher in the summer of 2012 and thus became PII-2012 for Petermann Ice Island 2012. The CCGS Henry Larsen visited and surveyed the waters,...
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Petermann Ice Island Breaks while Plowing into the Bottom
The Manhattan-sized ice island that last year broke free of Petermann Gletscher in North Greenland plowed into the bottom and broke apart. Force equals mass times acceleration. When 18 giga tons (mass)...
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Ruins of Fort Conger in the High Arctic
Retreating from Fort Conger, the U.S. Army lost 68% of its men to death by starvation and drowning. They were delivered to the northern shores of Ellesmere Island within sight of northern Greenland by...
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Ocean Circulation and Melting Glaciers off North-East Greenland
Scientists like myself always have ideas and theories on how oceans and climate work, but these need testing with real (not virtual) data before they can be accepted as truth or dismissed as fool’s...
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First Research Mission for Norway’s new Icebreaker
The Norwegian government just committed ~$4,000,000 to explore ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean. This new study includes ocean surveys of the Barents Sea in 2017 to the north of Norway and Russia using...
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Simple Design, Intense Content
Saturday, 4:30pm, no breakfast, no lunch, but lots of reading, thinking, and dreaming on how to draw that perfect plot. How can I convey data and science from Greenland as oceans, glaciers, and ice are...
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Formation of Nares Strait Ice Bridges in 2014
Darkness and cold covers North Greenland, Ellesmere Island as well as Nares Strait, the waterway that connects these two inhospitable places. And despite the darkness of the polar night, I can see that...
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Petermann Gletscher Thawing and Thinning
Greenland’s tidewater glaciers are losing mass, through thinning and retreat, at an increasing rate. Greenland’s glaciers located north of 78 North latitude often end in ice shelves, floating...
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Fram Strait Ice, Oil, and Glaciers
Tomorrow I fly to Germany to prepare for an ocean experiment in the shallow waters off northern Greenland. Together with oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany, I hope to...
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North Greenland Glacier Ice-Ocean Interactions 2014
I will travel to Spitsbergen in six weeks to board the German research icebreaker Polarstern. She will sail west across the Fram Strait towards northern Greenland where some of the last remaining...
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First steps to Greenland
I am on my way to northern Greenland and just arrived badly time-lagged in Diez near Frankfurt from Philadelphia. Together with fellow scientists and technicians from Germany, Poland, and Canada, I...
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Day-3: Working on Ocean Physics, Chemistry, and Biology
Position: 65:36’N and 00:23’W Time: June-9, 23:33 Temperature: 9.6 C Air and 9.8 C Water More than 5 different groups finished moving and unpacking the content of 15 or more containers filled to the...
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Icebergs, Islands, and Instruments off Isle de France, North-East Greenland
Andreas Muenchow Leaving all land behind when FS Polarstern sailed for Greenland almost 2 weeks ago, we saw land again for a few hours last Sunday. A small ice-capped island called Isle de France was...
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Wild Women Working Science Aboard Polarstern
My wife of 20 years teaches at Padua Academy, a private catholic High School for girls only. It mostly serves families where the girls will become the first in their families to go on to college. I am...
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