The satellite we use for internet rose above the horizon recently as we continue southward from 83 N. That means I can share a couple pics with you.
They say that ice cover in the Beaufort Sea is lighter and thinner than last year, but the mooring and ice folks on board have had good luck finding suitable 8-10 ft thick ice floes on which to tether buoys and take ice cores. Most of the floes are scattered with turquoise melt ponds
When he's not drinking from arctic melt ponds, my roommate Will enjoys bulk candy, the big biscuit, the rosette shack, BC football, and posing with syrofoam mannequin heads:
After a cold trip to -9000 ft in an onion bag:
The last pump-cast of the trip during the first sun-set of the trip...
DRG
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