Greenland 2002

This field season, I flew to Greenland with the Air National Gaurd on April 29th along with Jason Box, Sandy Starkweather and Russ Huff. We stayed in Kangerlussuaq until May 1st when we were put into Swiss Camp by a Twin Otter. Once the camp was open, I calibrated new instruments and collected data from and maintained 5 AWS (automatic weather stations), 4 SMS (smart stakes) and several GPS stations. This work included several snowmobile traverses down into the ablation zone and a helicopter ride up to Crawfor Point. We later were met at Swiss Camp by Koni Steffen, Nicolas Cullen and Jay Zwally. We also installed a 5th SMS in the melt zone.

Two weeks later, Sandy and I headed up to Summit, while Jay and Jason returned to the US, and the others went on to the Petermann Glacier. I returned to the US on June 14th. I encourage you to visit my photo albums to see pictures from Swiss Camp, our traverses and from Summit.