Vermont sendoff"
C-141 in Goose Bay on the way to Thule
The iconic mesa at Thule, home to an annual golf tournament
Looking back at the airfield, Thule
Air National Guard C-130s, they would supply our fuel
Tri-turbo modified C-47 (DC-3)
The start of fantastic scenery on the flight out to Station Nord
Glacier debouching into the Arctic Ocean
Promontory headland along the north coast of Greenland
Frozen fjord viewed from over the ice sheet
Tributary glaciers joining larger one
Ice shelf breaking into tabular bergs, in sea ice matrix
Escarpment at the edge of the ice sheet
Glacier with spreading flow curves
Meandering frozen fjord
C-130 dropping pallets of fuel
They looked like they were coming down right on top of us!
But their aim was good
FRAM I camp
Ken Hunkins and Alan Gill testing the portable CTD
Returning to camp after helo sampling
We were an hour out when word that the camp was splitting reached us
Scrambling to save hut at the edge
View at the surface
The crack widened and eventually became the runway
Helge the Swedish helo pilot
Alan, Helge, and Gøran ready to take a sample
Uninviting ice
Saturday Night Fever at FRAM
My side project with Norbert Untersteiner measuring ocean heat flux by ice temperature
Twin Otter landing on the new landing strip
The Swedish fighter pilot giving Helge a break
University of Montana polar bear researchers piggybacked on the ocean survey
Waiitng in Nord for my ride back to Thule