KenMankoff

PIG

I woke up this morning in Pine Island Glacier. We are surrounded on three sides by the towering cliffs of the floating tongue of the glacier. They rise 50 or 60 m above the water and therefore 500 or 600 m below. I’ve never seen the white cliffs of dover but I imagine they would look small and yellow compared to these. (Maybe H will take me there someday).
 
A CTD cast was coming up at the beginning of my shift. I spent the first hour doing samples, and the rest of the night should be easy. We’ll be doing bathymetry mapping swaths and no sampling, so my job will be to enjoy the view.
 
Weather: -2.5 (Air) -0.5 (Water)
Location: lat:-74.9601, lon:-101.6803
 
Bright sun, blue sky, blue water, white cliffs, some ‘berg bits and a few gigantic tabular icebergs floating in the bay.
 
In other news, someone commented on my blog! (Thanks Mom). No, the sun moving West to East is not a typo. Normally the sun moves east to west, but at night it needs to ‘reset’ to the east, so relative to you, it moves west to east around the back side of the planet. Since I’m close enough to the pole to see over it (so to speak) I get to watch the sun move in a circle 24 hours a day. After it moves east to west during my ‘day’ while I am sleeping, I watch it move west to east on the other side of the earth during our ‘night’.