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
A run up to the fabulous Glen Coe, a little snow still on the tops, but mostly quite wet and dull, managed to get some shots off though.
Oddly every time I go neither Mr Campbell nor Sebastian are home...
I sometimes wonder if they really do live there 🤔
As light dawned on a very cold and windy morning we hurriedly packed up our tent and waited in the lieu of some rocks for the sun to arrive. The cold wait was worthwhile as the morning sun started to touch the summits and quickly spread to the ridges. A magical time of day to be in the mountains.
As the sun went slowly down to the west of Granada we were left with a brief but beautiful sunset over the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. We watched the sun dip below the horizon and then the clouds illuminated with color, before the cold had us hurrying towards our tent.
Three Exmoor Ponies ’sheltering’ under the trees of Webber’s Post. The trees were covered in wet snow, and the sun was out melting it fast: So they were doing the opposite of sheltering. A slightly sepia monochrome. #exmoor#exmoornationalpark#webberspost#exmoorpony#exmoorponies#snow#monochrome This one is on flickr.com/groups/exmoorcommons/ for free use by individuals and Exmoor businesses.