leaving for South-America

Today i arrived in Oslo, after 2 hrs 30 min flight from Reykjavik.

We got the plane tickets only 2 hrs ago!

I only got 5 hrs of sleep.

now it is 2100 hrs and we have to take a train at hrs 4.24 and then we fly to Frankfurt at hrs 0755 where we will arrive after 2 hrs flight. from there we get into a jumbo-jet and fly 13 hrs 45 min to Buenos Aires... hopefully there will be enough space to sleep on the plane...

time difference from Reykjavik to Oslo is +2 hrs and from Oslo to Buenos Aires it will be -5 hrs... 

a short field trip to Sólheimajökull

on Saturday Anna, Thelma and I went to my glacier, Sólheimajökull to have a look at it. we measured the retreat/melting since last year, which is 74 meters. BUT, there is another place where the glacier has retreated around 180 meters due to heavy calving.  This can only be measured from aerial photographs.

I found some really old photographs of my glaciers, from 1910. This is a great improvement and good evidence of where the glacier was in the old times and how large it was!

i will probably fly to Norway on Friday and from there to Buenos Aires to board the ship I am going to sail to Antarctica with. My father will join me on the trip, and will be celebrating his 70 year birthday aboard, away from all the stress and party at home;0)

week-end in Stykkisholmur

Last week-end Anna, Kristjana and I drove up to visit Theo in Stykkisholmur. this photograph was taken on the way. it is a HDR (3 photos on top of each other) of Snæfellsjökull

Back from a great trip to Greenland

You can read all about my trip to Greenland on my Sirius blog, link is on the right hand side of the page!

In around a month I will be in Buenos Aires were I will be working as a guide and lecturer on board the MV FRAM, the same ship as I went to Greenland with.

It will be GREAT

These are the trips I will make. the trip from Buenos Aires will only be once while it will be two trips from Ushuaia...

Going back to NE-Greenland

Tomorrow I will go to NE-Greenland again, again... this time with "Fram" from Hurtigruten.

there will be around 220 passengers on board, mostly from Germany and we will be 8 guides and lectures. Palle Norit, a former Sirius member from my fathers time in the 60´s is also on board. The plan is to sail from Reykjavik to Scoresbysund-Mestersvig-Alpefjord-Blomsterbugten-Daneborg-Myggbukta-Ella Ö-Isafjörður and Reykjavik.

This will be a trip right into my own backyard so to speak;0). finally i will be able to go to a Greenlandic town, Scoresbysund. this is a bit strange since i have spent almost 8 years inside the National park...

I will try to update my blog during the trip, if not something will come after the trip.

I will be back in Reykjavik on the 23rd and the 24th Anna and I will fly to Denmark to attend to a big party to celebrate that SIRIUS is 60 years old...  then back to Reykjavik on the 26th, and see what my supervisors have to say about my thesis!

The ship has a web-camera and a blog that will be updated every day, so you can see what we are all up to...

http://mvfram.blogspot.com/

HANDED in my master THESIS

tonight I handed in my master thesis, again. hopefully it will be good enough this time. now it is 106 pages and almost 27 000 words, which is a lot. I have been way too busy, i think;0)

my supervisors will go over it while i leave the country and go to Greenland...

Back from Greenland

this photograph is from the Malmbjerget area in NE-Greenland. Malmbjerget is top right mountain.

we had a great trip and spent 2 days in Akureyri, North Iceland due to delays of the ship we were using. So we studied the local town for one day and the swimming-pool and the next day we rented two cars and drove to Myvatn, Dettifoss, Godafoss, Asbyrgi, Husavik and back again. we had a swim in Grjotagja at Myvatn, which is a very warm (for some people not used to warm water) cave with influx of water from a crack in the earth!

Then we flew in two planes to Constable Pynt in Greenland and all cramped together in one twin otter plane and flew up to Mestersvig, overflying Malmbjerget on the way, which was covered in clouds.

the ship we used as base had anchored up in Mesters Vig and not in Nyhavn, so we had to wait for some hours before it had gotten to the right place, so that we could hoist the helicopter on deck and attach the rotor-blades. in the evening we flew up to Malmbjerget to have a look at all the sites and walk around in the camp...

i will write more later

i must do some more work on my thesis which is due on september 12th...

there are a few more pictures on my pictures