Last aurora sighting of my second polar winter!
One of the new techs took this picture of me releasing my last ozone sonde of the winter.
I plane came and brought eight people. Six of them will be replacing us in the next phase. They will be on their own for 3 months before the station opens for the summer phase.
After a week of turning over tasking to the new folks, and five days of bad weather delays another plane came to take my crew back to Iceland.
This is the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, just before it starts to flow down and in between the coastal mountains.
We hit the mountains just as the sun was setting, it was magical.
I think it's safe to imagine that no human has ever set foot on these peaks.
Open water!
I spend the night in Akureyri again after a fancy birthday dinner of baked beet, watermelon, goat cheese brie and sprouts, and a delicious molten chocolate cup cake. woke up early the next day to fly to Reykjavik and then continue on to Seattle and San Diego. It was a very long day of flying.
This is open water in the Canadian Arctic creating clouds.
