The start of the mélange zone in front of Melville Glacier, massive and fresh icebergs formed an ice wall. Large calving event this week, slightly unusual so early in the year and with so much fast ice, unfortunately we missed recording it but our instruments will get the next one. Greenland loses around half of it's ice by calving so it's an important process to understand.
This glacier is clearly very dynamic.
It's an incredible field site, the glacier is continuously pushing and heaving and you can hear it while you're there. Lots of seals around on the sea ice too and many polar fox tracks...
Some long days and no internet so posting a few late pictures now with some fieldwork updates. Satellite image from ESA's Sentinel 2 mission, processed on snapplanet
The #Antarctic monthly #seaice extent for February 2024 landed among the 3 lowest on record, behind 2023 and very close to 2017.
Nowhere, does sea ice in Feb 2024 seem to fall outside the 30-year mean contour. Except for the A23 #iceberg that is seen northeast of the Antarctic peninsula 🧊😀
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
🖊 Lewis Carroll