🌊 How do we collect sea ice to measure tor trace elements and isotopes? You need a big drill to collect the core and then a lot of patience to shave down the outsides with a ceramic blade…to get clean ice to melt and analyze. Dr. Tia Anderlini on the trigger here.

🌊 We never did find the mooring we were looking to recover here off the western edge of central 🇬🇱 Greenland. The bergs probably took it…but it was a beautiful spot to look. Summer 2024

Perfectly normal traffic on a Thursday morning @uvicscience.bsky.social @uvic.ca @seos-uvic.bsky.social

Definitely autumn in British Columbia...it is going to get windy and wet in the coming days. Current surface winds in our neck of the woods

🌊 More images from Otto Fiord which is above 80 N on the west side of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 🇨🇦 in the Arctic. Sofie Ohrling is heading out from the icebreaker on a zodiac to sample near the glacier front and nearshore for trace elements @geotraces.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

Lab @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling are on the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen conducting research in Eureka Sound Nunavut 🇨🇦. Some sights and sounds from the Arctic

In the shadow of the Chateau Laurier you can witness the locks on the Rideau Canal bring boats around the rapids and back down the Ottawa River