The Polar might is drawing in, the neighbouring nunatak

Ploegen, with the sun almost setting behind it.

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #Fieldwork #PolarScience #ClimateScience #FieldPhoto #FieldworkPhoto

Yesterday's drive to this field site was quite challenging, cold, windy, icy, monster sastrugi and white out. An Antarctic experience...



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We were rewarded late yesterday evening with beautiful sun and spectacular snow crystals.

Today I have mostly been in the lab tent...



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Yesterday's drive to this field site was quite challenging, cold, windy, icy, monster sastrugi and white out. An Antarctic experience...



#iQ2300 #FieldPhoto #Fieldwork

An #Antarctic view for #FensterFreitag, our tent lab has several windows, I just need to remember to look up and out...

#iQ2300

An #Antarctic view for #FensterFreitag, our tent lab has several windows, I just need to remember to look up and out...

#iQ2300

Spectacular mountain clouds along with today's winds.

#WasaStation #iQ2300 #Antarctica

Spectacular mountain clouds along with today's winds.

#WasaStation #iQ2300 #Antarctica

Penaali, one of the epiglacial ponds of the Basen nunatak. I took this photo on a Christmas Eve hike along the Cliff too during a nice sunny walk. The weather is very different today.

Penaali is one of 3 blue ice "lakes" here that form underneath a hard ice crust by solar radiation that penetrates through the ice.

Fascinating physical system that I don't fully understand yet, but something to think about while we're stuck inside waiting for the winds to subside.



#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldPhoto

Penaali, one of the epiglacial ponds of the Basen nunatak. I took this photo on a Christmas Eve hike along the Cliff too during a nice sunny walk. The weather is very different today.

Penaali is one of 3 blue ice "lakes" here that form underneath a hard ice crust by solar radiation that penetrates through the ice.

Fascinating physical system that I don't fully understand yet, but something to think about while we're stuck inside waiting for the winds to subside.



#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldPhoto

Happy New Year central European friends. We already greeted our Finnish friends an hour ago. Technically we're on UTC so still an hour to go here at Wasa, but I'm not sure I'll make it, so here is the view from our Wasa station under the midnight sky from the southern continent. May 2026 be a peaceful and better year than 2025.



#Antarctica #iQ2300 #HappyNewYear

Happy New Year central European friends. We already greeted our Finnish friends an hour ago. Technically we're on UTC so still an hour to go here at Wasa, but I'm not sure I'll make it, so here is the view from our Wasa station under the midnight sky from the southern continent. May 2026 be a peaceful and better year than 2025.



#Antarctica #iQ2300 #HappyNewYear

After the 2 days of storm, the surface has been scoured into crazy sastrugi patterns at our field site this afternoon.



#Sastrugi #Antarctica #iQ2300 #FieldPhoto #FieldWork

It's a beautiful day after the storm, spent a morning in the lab preparing samples for oxygen isotopes, but we're going out later for more coring and sampling. Here are WP9 including @mercerraa@pixelfed.global heading out for a few days overnight on the shelf.



The small cabins give a useful sense of scale in the huge landscape.

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldWork #FieldPhoto #WasaStation

It's a beautiful day after the storm, spent a morning in the lab preparing samples for oxygen isotopes, but we're going out later for more coring and sampling. Here are WP9 including @mercerraa@pixelfed.global heading out for a few days overnight on the shelf.



The small cabins give a useful sense of scale in the huge landscape.

#iQ2300 #Antarctica #FieldWork #FieldPhoto #WasaStation

Tilbage på Wasa station for juleaftensdag -

Jeg skal snakke med @andreasnyholm.bsky.social på TV2 news cirka kl12.15 om vores #iQ2300 projekt og hvad det er jeg egentlig gøre i Antarktis lige nu, hvis i er ikke ellers optaget og synes det lyder interessant..

Tilbage på Wasa station for juleaftensdag -

Jeg skal snakke med @andreasnyholm.bsky.social på TV2 news cirka kl12.15 om vores #iQ2300 projekt og hvad det er jeg egentlig gøre i Antarktis lige nu, hvis i er ikke ellers optaget og synes det lyder interessant..

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/

The #iQ2300 expedition has actually been in the field a couple of weeks already - you can follow our progress and all the complex logistics around working #Antarctica as well as the joys and problems of #Fieldwork on the expedition blog:
https://www.polar.se/en/expeditions/iq2300-202526/