So we've made it, we've reached the half way mark of our time here! Meaning that sadly we only have 9 weeks left in this incredible place but luckily for the majority of our Arctic Scottish colony we're off on our two week jolly holidays. I mean technically it's a two week reading break, but with only one assignment due in 5 weeks...
Recently the workload has increased significantly with reports, presentations, seminars, lectures and reading scientific papers taking up a huge amount of time. However, I did have a chance to get away from the books for one day in the last 3 weeks to do a short hike up one of the local mountains. It was great weather all the way up and we...
This was the week of analysing all the data from our field trip as well as getting to grips with the R statistics program. It is a bit like the MATLAB that we use at SAMS. Thankfully my group’s analysis on our data about geese and vegetation has shown something useful, so all that is left is to write up the report and...
The majority of us, apart from Mr. Terrestrial, are taking Arctic Technologies focusing on hydrology, climate change and environmental pollution. Which luckily for us included a five day field trip to Petuniabukta just north of Pyramiden! On Monday we rode the catamaran across the fjord to Pyramiden. We saw sea birds, seals, 3 polar bears (mum and two cubs), and a glacier...
At the start of week 2 my class and I left Longyearbyen for the first time, setting out for our week long field cruse. The work took us around the west side of the island to the Island’s northern most point. Each day we stopped off at different sites to do data collection for our group projects and in the evenings we had...
