We had our first sunny day for over a week yesterday with the temperature dropping substantially from around -5C degrees to -20C degrees (with windchill included). It has been a blessing to be working from the UK Arctic Research Station in Ny Alesund with warm showers and plentiful tea.
The station is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and operated by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and we have had great support from the BAS staff working here. How else would we safely abseil (rappel) 45 metres down a moulin into a glacier or know where it was safe to get a snow mobile across a slushy meltwater stream?
Having facilities like this make research projects and Arctic Live so much easier and enjoyable. So this daily email is a massive thank you to both NERC and BAS. If you are on social media, please give them as massive shout out on twitter (@NERCscience & @BAS_News) or on Facebook (NERC & BAS) for their support of #ArcticLive.
We hope to see some of the students who have participated this year, up at the UK Arctic Research Station honing their polar field skills in the future
Love from the Arctic,
Jamie
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