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Journey to Resolute
We arrived in Resolute this evening. The Arctic base where we will spend the next two days performing a dress rehearsal for our experiment. Before we fly up to Alert, the northly most inhabited place...
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Experiment Preparations
After taking a look around the Polar-5 aircraft hanger we headed off to the warehouse to work out how we were going to build the stands for the corner reflectors. Corner reflectors are pieces of metal...
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Alert
Photos: Waiting in departures; Justin, Rosie, Malcolm, Christian and Seymour, View from the Twin Otter We got the all clear to leave for Alert at breakfast. So we headed for the airfield met our...
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Waiting to Fly
The good weather we were hoping for hasn’t happened over the last two days (11-12th April). We need clear skies so that Troy and Derek can find suitable landing sites on the frozen Arctic Ocean. I’m...
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Experiment Begins!
Today our pilots (Troy and Derek) gave us the all clear to fly and begin our experiment for real, setting out the corner reflectors and transect lines. Just as good news for us was that yesterday the...
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Fast Ice
Photo banner: The team just before we left for Resolute today (thanks Seymour for the photo) We were all very happy to have got the break in the weather we needed to land at our sites on the Arctic...
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