Category Archives: Norway

Arctic Oceanographers Ashore In Tromso

Posted on July 7, 2014 by | 2 comments

Oceanographers are a bit crazy. This is especially true after sailing and working 4 weeks aboard a ship in the ice and fog and snow and drizzle that characterize summer in Fram Strait between northern Greenland and Spitsbergen. The one color one does NOT see is green, there just is none. So, when we got off FS Polarstern last thursday, what did we do? Continue reading →

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Fram Strait Ice, Oil, and Glaciers

Posted on March 13, 2014 by | 4 comments

Tomorrow I fly to Germany to prepare for an ocean experiment in the shallow waters off northern Greenland. Together with oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany, I hope to deploy Continue reading →

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Norway, Norwegians, and Normal

Posted on February 8, 2014 by | 2 comments

The best part of my High School was getting out of it early to ski from Oslo to Trondheim across Norway’s Hardangervidda in 1981 Continue reading →

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Polar Night and Science in Tromso, Norway

Posted on December 5, 2013 by | 3 comments

Crossing the Arctic Circle for the first time in winter, I was stunned last Sunday by the amount of light that still reaches Tromso, Norway located Continue reading →

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First Research Mission for Norway’s new Icebreaker

Posted on November 14, 2013 by | 3 comments

The Norwegian government just committed ~$4,000,000 to explore ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean. This new study includes ocean surveys Continue reading →

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