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Latest insights into our latest mission to the Arctic.

Canada’s Arctic ice shelves have almost halved in size over the last six years.
Summer 2011 marks the second lowest sea ice extent on record

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Train Like An Explorer

August 15, 2011

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (one of the survivors from Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition) famously said “Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”

Posted in Blog, Leader Slides, Training

Scientist Training

March 5, 2010

There wasn’t much time for our new team of scientists to bed in to life in Resolute. Having arrived last night at around 1930 local time, they met the Ice Base and Explorer teams and then settled into their rooms in readiness to start their 5 day training course today. By 0915 Dr. Helen Findlay, [...]

Posted in 2010, Blog, Ice Base, Science, Training

Unpredictability

February 25, 2010

The only guarantee in the Arctic is that there are no guarantees. 130km/h (80mph) winds blowing across the runway at Resolute on February 24th scuppered the Ice Base team’s attempt to fly north from the town of Iqaluit on Baffin Island. The weather in Iqaluit was a balmy -20ºC (-4ºF) yesterday afternoon and the team [...]

Posted in 2010, Ice Base, Training