In order to recover from yesterday's hikes up near Russel Glacier and Point 660, we had an "easy day" around the Field School. We held a video conference with Andreas Mikkelson, a Danish Ph.D. student, about his work on sub- and supra-glacial discharge. After learning about his measurements on the Watson River, we walked the few meters down to the bridge spanning the river and took our own measurements. Groups 1 and 2 took short-distance discharge measurements by dropping objects off of one side of the bridge and measuring the time it took that object to reach the other side of the bridge. Groups 4 and 5 followed the same procedure over a longer distance for comparison. My group (Group 3!) filmed the process and interviewed Andreas.
Meet Andreas
Discharge Measurements
In the afternoon, the groups participated in an interactive lesson about the Greenland ice sheet on the SPRINTT website. It was quite the wake-up call with regards to global climate change - very informative.
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