Category: Environment
A fragment of another Earth
It wasn’t your ordinary helictoper journey. As the enormous red and white Sikorsky 61 hovered in to land on the rocky, uneven ground,…
Read MoreThe cold that binds it
“It’s cold today, isn’t it?” I comment to my son, as we trudge up the hill toward home. “Yeah, a bit,” he replies….
Read MoreA bridge too far
It’s easy to get excited about new things, however mundane, when one lives in a small place, even if that small place happens…
Read MoreGeological mapping in Greenland – same, same
Geological mapping hasn’t really changed very much in the hundred and fifty odd years that geologists have been producing maps in earnest. Sixteen…
Read MoreThe silent journey home
I remember, about fifteen years ago, when map-based GPS units were introduced to the Air Greenland helicopter fleet. It was the end of…
Read MoreOne advantage of not having a car
Our son still laments the loss of dad’s ‘fast car’ that we had to leave behind in Australia when we moved to Greenland….
Read MoreBeneath the surface
Fiskefjord is a long, narrow gash-like fjord north of Nuuk that cuts its way toward the inland ice. Islands break its watery path….
Read MoreWho cares if we caused climate change?
*Australian January mean temperature anomaly (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) with overlaid Standardized Melt Index for the Greenland Ice Sheet (National Snow and Ice…
Read MoreNot so different
When I was a kid, we spent the long summer holidays in a caravan park by a lake that opened to the Pacific…
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