It is 8:30h in the morning and we have a meeting in the bar. A good start of the day. Our expedition leader Jan Belgers has to bring us less good news though: It is foggy, thus we cannot continue the planned landing at the big bird cliff at Steiningfjellet. […]
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The Kartverket antennas are pointing at different points in space, trying to receive radio radiation from objects called “quasars”. Those quasars are very far away and very stable in their own movement (they do not move). That is why they are considered fixed points. During a measurement, several antennas around […]
Two Homo sapiens in red suits walking in shallow freshwater lakes with a bucket and a flask, filtering hundreds of liters of water. That was the main activity of the sampling hike of Christophe and Annabel two weeks ago and I had the honour to join them. Hiking up a […]
Two black guillemots and one murre!One tern and one puffin!Four normal eiders, three female eiders and four king eiders! A normal “conversation” during a bird counting tour around Kongsfjorden with the Dutch biologists last Thursday. With 4 biologists (Maarten, Christophe, Mo and Annabel) and 2 boat drivers (Bettina and me), […]