Spitsbergen offers a wonderful and fairly pristine environment, but with that come some dangers. Of course common dangers at home or at work (e.g. falling of stairs, throwing hot water over yourself) are present, but the rough environment poses some additional risks. In order to prevent such situations and to […]
Sunset in Longyearbyen: 22:31h. Sunrise: 03:23h After 10 days of quarantine, we arrived today well in Longyearbyen, the capital city of Spitsbergen. Those 10 days of quarantine were not that bad, allowing us to even experience some Norwegian wildlife. Not only did we have the pleasure of meeting a moose, […]
Hello everybody, welcome at the really first blogpost! First a short introduction. Our team exists of Gregory (stationleader), Yohann (logistics engineer) and me, Fieke (observatory engineer). At the moment we are in our quarantine hotel nearby the airport of Oslo and luckily, we have little fridges in our rooms. Gregory […]
Welkom bij Arctic reporter! Vanaf deze website zal ik de aankomende tijd berichten over mijn overwintering op Spitsbergen in het onderzoeksdorpje Ny-Ålesund. Zowel regelmatige (persoonlijke) blogs als ook artikelen die wat dieper op polaire zaken ingaan zullen hier verschijnen. Dit laatste klinkt net als een ministerie. Zou trouwens zo gek […]
Welcome at Arctic reporter! From this website I will keep you updated about my overwintering in the research village Ny-Ålesund on Spitsbergen. Both personal blogs as well as more in-depth polar articles will appear regularly over here. Enjoy following Arctic reporter!