Liz Bagshaw, Leah Hopf and Jane Williamson have just returned from a successful field trip to Greenland, where they were working on the ARIA Funded ‘GRUMPS’ (Greenland Runoff Monitoring from Passive Seismology) project. The team camped near the margin of the ice sheet, experiencing temperatures from -22 to +6 and carried lots of stuff! They’ll be back in July to install some more equipment and collect more samples once the meltwater has started flowing.
Jane and Leah collect samples from the first meltwater on the surface of the ice.Leah processes samples late at night in the tent.Team Bristol in the field. L-R: Leah Hopf, current PhD student; Tifenn Le Bris, new glaciology PDRA starting soon; Jane Williamson, current MRes student; Sian Thorpe, former Environmental Geoscience BSc, now PhD at Sheffield; James Hammond, former NERC Fellow, now a professor at Birkbeck. Not pictured: Liz, current Glaciology staff, and Andrew Sole, former Glaciology PhD now a professor at Sheffield.
