So this is how a volcano works...

So this is how volcanologists work...

nothing much is going on at the eruption site, a little bit of magma is melting some ice, but is not making to much trouble. the airports here have been closed on and off, which is hard for Icelandair and the tourist business...

i have two more days to finish my thesis...

writing and writing

i am in my final stage of writing my thesis. i have to hand it in to my supervisors on Monday, 3rd of May. then they will spend some time on it before i get it back and probably make some addjustemnts before handing it in finally may 17th...

flight traffic is back to normal at keflavik and reykjavik.
my friend Hilmer who has stayed with me for the last 3 days, left for Greenland today as he has been stopped by the volcaic ash.
he still misses his luggage...

our turn...

today it was our turn to close down airports...
Keflavik and Reykjavik closed down at hrs 0600, but Akureyri in the north and eigilsstadir in the east are open for traffic, and some planes have been routed to Akureyri. which is good for business there;0)
the ash cloud is moving towards reykjavik, but the amount is nothing close to what has been pouring over the farmers down south.

well i am off to continue writing on my thesis...

for those who understand Danish...

i got this from my friend Helgi

overview of the eruption seen from NASA satellite April 17th

My glacier will have to change name from Sólheimajökull to Svartijökull = sunny glacier to black glacier

i put some more photos on "my pictures"

these pictures are compared from satellite images taken by NASA on the EO-1 and ASTER bands, the white one is from April 6th. and the black one from April 17th. these show that most of my glacier has been covered in ash by the second eruption (Eyjafjallajökull), but was untouched by the first eruption (Fimmvörduháls).

so suddenly i have some more things i can add to my thesis...it will be exciting to see how this ash layer will affect the melting during this summer...

thickness of ash layer

this evening scientist said that the thickness of ash is between 4 and 5 cm on the area below Eyjafjallajøkull.
the area is not more than a few km to each side of thorvaldseyri farm.
if the layer would be more than 10 cm then it would be serious for the farmers and it would maybe take 100 years before the earth would be 100% fertile again...

weather in reykjavik has been sunny, rainy, snowy, sleet and rain again, but we have not gotten any ash this way.
my thesis is going well, producing some words and some figures. but there is still some more work that has to be done;0)