TO-GRO: Transit Optics Graduate Research Opportunities

We have 6 incredible candidates ready to plan joint research next year! Please sponsor a TO-GRO program participant. Help us raise $10,000 USD per participant before Spring 2022. Learn about them below. {{ vc_btn: title=Sponsor+a+Student.+Donate+here%21 }} This program gives graduate and recent graduate students the opportunity to conduct ocean research [...]

Ready, Set, Wait: A lofty pursuit of ocean color, and inevitable retreat

I must have mapped out the ocean’s physical properties for over a dozen terminating glaciers and each one is unique and leaves me in complete awe. Really, they are fascinating and I suggest you create the opportunity to see one in your lifetime. They are slow-moving frozen rivers comprising not […]

Sleigh Ride Bay-wide and a Warm Welcome to Croker Bay

Elizabeth Varner has been busy sending us clear low-resolution pictures to our primitive satellite email.  She has been doing her best to gain satellite connection and snapshots of areas just one step ahead of our path. Luckily for us, Elizabeth (our high school STEM intern and home-base intelligence), has been […]

Ocean Warming in Disko Bay

Matt and I made it to Aasiaat, Greenland. A small town of about 3,000 people. It sits at the edge of Western Greenland marking the southern corner of Disko bay. In that bay is a famous glacier called Jakobshavn Glacier. It is reported to  be melting at an incredible rate […]

Surf to Sail: Polar Scientific Exploration

Anne Arundel County Public School: Hey guys! I’m going to Canada. So what?, you might be thinking  as you read this.You might have summer adventures planned, too. Maybe you’re heading to a nearby beach, going up to the mountains or visiting family across the country. But I bet my suitcase […]

O’ Canada

  Besides the powerful reoccurring cramp in my leg things are quite nice right now.  Nikki, Mike and I just ate fish and chips with fresh caught cod and a piece of pie made from a local berry I’ve never heard of before.  Life is good in southern Labrador Canada. [...]

Phase 2

Aasiaat is far from a metropolitan city but it feels like one at this point.  We have spent so much of our time in the far north that even basic luxuries seem extravagant.  For instance you can do laundry, which is something we haven’t done since May.  You can take [...]

NASA, Etah and the Danish Navy

As I write this my hands are covered in oil and grime.  Nikki still has some oil on her face making her look more like a coal miner than a sailor.  We hardly notice after everything else we have been though. Since my last blog we had a good weather [...]

NASA Survey ( Part 2)

The weather has been crazy this year. Normally Northwest Greenland has very little wind in the summer months. If there is strong wind it’s out of the north, but usually it doesn’t blow hard for long. This year its been one storm after another, with all of the winds out […]

We are on fire!

We are on fire! I am just thrilled that we are finally back to 24 hour operations in the ice, mapping Inglefield glacial fjord’s seafloor and comparing the subsurface temperatures lurking in front of the glaciers. I am kind of the boat’s fortune teller. I wake up every 5 hours […]