Fieldwork season: Views for days and ~5000 year old glacier ice. Successfull coring trip with colleagues from @oeaw.bsky.social and @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

"Warm" December in AK, it's been a while since we had this much red in the map in our monthly reports. It's also been a while since Utqiagvik was the "least warm" station of the bunch. #akwx akclimate.org/data/monthly...

futility:
we just moved this stake/
away from the glacier edge/
but the edge followed/

team work:
i have blisters and/
sun block and sweat in my eyes./
it is your turn now./

eventualities:
a bottle of rum/
lives in the weather station,/
you know, just in case./

sun block:
SPF 50,/
smells like piña colada./
skin burns, regardless./

ice screw:
finger sliced open./
now the snow is all bloody./
how did you do that./

geometry:
the pit is too small./
no, the haul bag will save us./
one meter to go./

pit music:
bluetooth connection,/
200 beats per minute./
dig dig dig dig dig/

helicopter I:
if it gets cloudy/
we will be stuck here and freeze./
should have kept our skis./

time:
i used to think that/
i would die before the ice./
age kills certainty.

recreating fieldwork haiku collection
counting syllables/
takes the mind off aching knees./
bad poems are fun/

backpacks:
you carry the drill/
i’ll take all the other stuff/
this is almost fair/

Hello Bluesky! I am a glaciologist working mostly on mountain cryosphere topics - glaciers, rock glaciers, sometimes snow - and interactions between the cryosphere and the atmosphere. Sadly, our monitoring glaciers in the Alps (pictures from fielwork this summer) are not doing well.