Author: Stine Eriksen Hammer

Sampling on Sør-Jan is successfully completed. We have had several days hiking around the island looking for snow-patches. As of this moment, we can say that we have collected snow from almost everywhere.

The filter sampler is in it’s final stage and working well.

Now, it’s time to start packing everything to be ready to leave Jan Mayen next week. Large amounts of water and snow need to be carried to mainland Norway.

After three long (!) working days, all snow samples on Beerenberg are collected. The first trip has already been mentioned in a previous post, when we reached the summit of Beerenberg. The second trip went to Nunataken, where we collected snow in a snow pit. Lucky for us, the weather was on our side, with almost no wind during collection of our snow-pit samples.

The third trip was to carry around 120 kg of snow down from the snowline. Tor and Stine carried this in two trips down Ekerolddalen.

After 5 days on the sailboat, we safely arrived at Jan Mayen – Many thanks to Ragnar and Rune! We got a warm welcome at the station, and are very grateful for all the help.

We have already collected the first samples on top of Beerenberg, and the vicinity of the station. From today, the filter sampler is running and we are very happy with the progress.

After 14 days of quarantine in Nordmarka north of Oslo, William, Tor, Stine and Stephan are heading towards Ålesund where the sailboat is waiting.

A special thank you to Thor Gjermund Eriksen for the wonderful stay at your cabin. We were specially impressed by the dishwasher (secret code to open, who knows, knows) 😉

We are looking forward to seeing Jan Mayen in approximately a week. Pray for good weather! See the link below if you would like to follow our boat journey to Jan Mayen.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:5105142/mmsi:257982930/imo:0/vessel:NESSIE