I remember, about fifteen years ago, when map-based GPS units were introduced to the Air Greenland helicopter fleet. It was the end of a field season in west Greenland and I was camped near the inland ice, a good forty-five minute flight from Nuuk. Ours was the last field camp to be flown back from …

Our son still laments the loss of dad’s ‘fast car’ that we had to leave behind in Australia when we moved to Greenland. He loved cruising around in the back of that convertible, basking in the warm southern sun, blond hair blowing in the breeze. But moving to Greenland meant leaving it behind. It’s one …

Fiskefjord is a long, narrow gash-like fjord north of Nuuk that cuts its way toward the inland ice. Islands break its watery path. Its walls are merely hills, not cliff-walled mountains like those of many other fjords on the west coast. Nonetheless, Fiskefjord can make itself felt. “Go through on the slack tide,” we were …

*Australian January mean temperature anomaly (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) with overlaid Standardized Melt Index for the Greenland Ice Sheet (National Snow and Ice Data Center) My son was born in northern Australia but he’s lived almost half of his young life in Greenland. He sees changes all around him – both in the Arctic environment …