A team of us are currently on a Polar expedition to Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the high Arctic. We are studying Borebreen which is a tidewater glacier around 40 km from the main settlement, Longyearbyen.
Borebreen is a surge-type glacier which means it undergoes periods of fast and slow flow in a cyclical manner. Borebreen was last known to surge over 100 years ago but has since been flowing relatively slowly. Around ~2019 it started to surge again son we are out here trying to understand what is driving it!
Good weather today – we did some drone surveys, walked on the ice and deployed some seismometers. Our journey consisted of a 1 hour speedboat journey from Longyearbyen!
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