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2012-01-13 00:42
NOTE: This section is updated annually
Live from Summit
Field notes is the blog of Polar Field Services, the company responsible for running Summit Station. Follow along stories related not only to Summit, but other happenings in the Arctic, from the team which undoubtedly is most aware of US Funded research activities!
Not only about Summit, but follow along on the research adventures of glaciologist Bob Hawley. Not only one of Greenland's most knowledgeable researchers, but also a member of the initial winterover at Summit in 1997 - before the days of 'live from summit'. At that time, the winter deployment was nine months with a crew of four, and no internet or satellite phone!
- 2011 - Anchorage Daily News
- Scientists study Greenland melting dynamics, By CHARLES J. HANLEY, The Associated Press
Read more: Link
and see more: gallery
- 2010 - Matt Shupe reporting for CIRES
- At 10,000 feet high in the middle of the Greenland Ice Sheet, blog author Matthew Shupe and colleagues plan to install a powerful suite of climate and weather instruments to better understand how clouds contribute to rapid warming and melting in the region. Follow their efforts during May and June as Shupe writes from the field ...
- 2010 - VAUUAV: John Burkhart and team reporting for NILU
- The Variability of Albedo Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles campaign was at Summit Station during the 2010 season. Follow along the notes from their 2009 and ongoing field seasons making spectral measurements using UAS.
- 2010 - IGERT
- T: Follow the adventures of Dartmouth College's IGERT students as they travel around Greenland learning about interdisciplinary research. It's not specific to Summit, but includes a visit, and lots of information about research on the island. ...
- 2009 - NASA Cryospheric Sciences Branch Summit Reports
- This research is taking place at Summit Station, Greenland from November 2008 to mid-February 2009. ...
- 2009 - Lara Koenig's blog from Summit Camp
- NASA glaciologist Lora Koenig at Greenland Summit Camp, January 2009. ... A skeleton crew of four spends the winter on the Greenland Summit. ...
- 2009 - A news update regarding Xavier Fain's Mercury research at Summit
- Although it's commonly believed that manmade emissions of mercury over the last century have disrupted the global mercury cycle, the first continuous monitoring of mercury levels only began during the 1990s, in Europe and the Arctic. Now a team from France, the US and Italy has produced the first continuous record of gaseous elemental mercury in the boreal atmosphere for the last 70 years, by studying air from inside a perennial snowpack, or firn, in Greenland.
2008 - FIRN Studies at Summit, CRREL
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Craig Beals joins researcher Barry Leafer as part of PolarTREC. Follow along as he experiences research at Summit. ~IPY~
- A student team at Dartmouth's Thayer engineering school that is
building an autonomous robot that will be used to perform Ground
Penetrating Radar surveys. We're working with professor
Laura Ray and Steve Arcone at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Laboratory and funded under a grant from NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.
- This is a blog by the scientists involved with the Greenland Halogen and Hydrogen Radical Photochemistry Experiment during the Summer of 2007. Another name for this study is SHOX for the Summit Halogen HOX experiment.
- Mike Pastirik's blog as a teacher from Georgia, USA working with Jack Dibb and Greg Huey during the photochemistry campaigns.
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Scientists travel to Greenland's remote research stations aboard C-130
Hercules aircraft, known as Hercs, flown by the New York Air National
Guard. Reporter Michael Milstein of The Oregonian recently went along.
- Katrine Gorham's blog from six weeks at Summit working with Don
Blake's group from UC- Irvine collecting ambient air samples for analysis
of hydrocarbons
- Jo Dodd joins research Mary Albert as part of PolarTREC. Her stories
are found here along with many other resources from teachers exploring
the poles. ~IPY~
- Kathy Young, veteran manager and all around expert on Summit speaks with the PODcast crew from POLAR-PALOOZA ~IPY~
- Note the series starting with 'Getting to Greenland' and finishing with 'Cap't Jack and the Halogen Hunters' ~IPY~
- Videographers travel to Greenland enroute to Summit Station aboard the the 109th New York Air National Gaurd's (NYANG 109th) 'Hercules' LC-130. The NYANG 109th have the only 'Herc skibirds' in the world and provide all flight operation support for the Antarctic as well as in Greenland.
- Flying from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland up to Summit Station.
- Summit's most veteran research Jack Dibb describes the importance of research at Summit beginning with the collection of the GISPII ice core continuing through to the discovery of the reactive nature of snow.
- Watch and learn as the students and investigators discuss their individual research projects, which collectively are designed to determine what is producing unexpectedly high concentrations of nitrogen oxides (NOx) this far north in the Arctic.
- JISAO postdoc Meredith G. Hastings and graduate student Justin Wettstein collected a 100-meter ice core, surface snow and ambient air samples during a month at the summit of Greenland.
- Toby and the Hot Sox provide updates and photographs from the midwinter '04/5 phase II season. In this collection there are photos of the crew of four dealing with Summit Station as it became completely buried... the following Spring the NSF provided funding to raise the station as it became clear it was no longer sustainable below snow grade.
- Jack Dibb's team provides frequent updates during the 2004 field season during a snow photochemistry experiment.
- The UC Davis team provides frequent updates during the 2003 field season during a snow photochemistry experiment.
- Photographs contributed directly to the Science Coordination Office for distribution from this site.
- Pictures uploaded at the station directly. Caution, downloads are slow, but this is one of the best locations for a wide variety of pictures.
- An older collection of photographs (<2003), but well sorted out and provided a wide variety of high quality images for unrestricted use.
- Ed Stockard, logistician extraordinare has been working for Veco Polar Resources (now CH2M HILL Polar Services) from many years providing essential support to the operations at Summit. While there, he's had the time to collect some incredible photos from the coast. Highly recommended coastal photos of wildlife, icebergs, and more!
- Reto Stöckli visited Summit Camp in 2005. The photo album gives an insight into daily life on 3200m a.s.l.: 24 hour-per-day research activity under the arctic midnight sun, tasty food from the wonderful camp cooks and hard work of building the 50m high ETH micromet tower.
- Movies / Video clips
- Archived webcasts
- News (rss feeds)
2008 - Radical Chemistry over Sunlit Snow, Summit Greenland | PolarTREC
2007 - Oregonian Goes to Summit
2007 - Snow Structure and Past Climates at Summit, Greenland | PolarTREC
2007 - POLAR-PALOOZA Blog » All Aboard for Summit Station
2007 - POLAR-PALOOZA
» PODcasts from around the Arctic
Winter 2004 - 2005 (Temporarily Offline)
Photos
There are numerous collections of photographs from Summit on the web. A few
links are provided here.
Contributed PhotosGEOSummit Photo Gallery (Temporarily Offline)