The Expedition
Hello again, it’s been a while! This year has been so busy with uni work (as well as the project…
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Chris’ Reconnaisance Mission
A few weeks ago, Chris flew out to Tromso in Norway to liase with the academic we’ll be working with…
Literature Search
Hey again. So over the past two weeks I’ve been trying to get my hands on every journal article or…
Project Briefing
Hey all, I’m Matt, and I’ll be working on the ‘Climate Change and Disappearing Glaciers’ project with Professor Chris Stokes.…
Fieldwork – Day 1
Having made the 12 hour journey to Assynt, northwest Scotland, the day before, we set out to find a suitable…
Fieldwork – Day 2
On the second day, we went to visit the landowner to ask if he had any information about the depth…
Fieldwork – Day 3
On the last day of fieldwork, we headed to Loch Duart to collect some sediment cores from the boat. We…
Lab work – Troels-Smith
We used Troels-Smith classification to identify the sediments in the cores we collected from Loch Duart, and gave a brief…
Lab work – forams
We sifted the sediment samples prepared earlier through two sieves, one larger to remove the coarser particles from the samples,…
DAY 9 – POST FLIGHT CHECKS
Today was a quiet day spent cleaning all of the kit and getting it ready for storage e.g. discharging batteries…