Svínafellsjökull glacier
Exams are done!!! Yeah! Learned so much here it's incredible. :) Excited to do this 5-day glacier field trip starting Saturday - learning research techniques that the glaciologists & glacial geologists are doing out there..to study climate change, glacier behaviour and ice ages. Did you know, that the Greenland ice sheet reaches depths of interglacial periods between 130,000 to 115,000 years ago when Earth's temp were warmer than now? The Univ of Copenhagen's drilling project on Greenland's ice sheet called NEEM, is pretty cool. Antarctica's ice sheet is about 35 million years old with very slow, gradual accumulation from it's extremely dry, polar climate. Subglacial lakes are just now being accessed underneath the Antarctic ice sheet at various locations, the deepest at Vostok by the Russian scientists. It's a delicate task as the lake water is millions of years old...holding 'secrets' to biological life, etc. very long ago. It's a very exciting time for scientists to have techniques to drill that far (3-4km depth) to 'read' the record of this long ago in our climate of Earth.
The four glaciers we will be working on in S and SE Iceland are:
1. Gígjökull (retreating glacier that drains north from the the famous ice capped Eyjafjallajökull volcano, that stopped air traffic in Europe in 2010).
2. Svínafellsjökull (Skaftafell, an outlet of the largest in Europe, Vatnajökull glacier).
3. Mýrdalssandur, forefront of Mýrdalsjökull glacier (near village of Vik and Katla volcano).
4. Sólheimajökull (outlet glacier of Katla volcano/ice cap, also near Vik).
A quote I read this morning: "Every one is born with wings". - Rumi
The four glaciers we will be working on in S and SE Iceland are:
1. Gígjökull (retreating glacier that drains north from the the famous ice capped Eyjafjallajökull volcano, that stopped air traffic in Europe in 2010).
2. Svínafellsjökull (Skaftafell, an outlet of the largest in Europe, Vatnajökull glacier).
3. Mýrdalssandur, forefront of Mýrdalsjökull glacier (near village of Vik and Katla volcano).
4. Sólheimajökull (outlet glacier of Katla volcano/ice cap, also near Vik).
A quote I read this morning: "Every one is born with wings". - Rumi