North GReenland Icecore Project - Diary for week 31

Daily reports from the NGRIP-camp - week 31, 2003

Monday, July 28th
Daily life

Science

Logistics
The packing goes on.

Tuesday, July 29th
Daily life

Science

Logistics
There was a flight mission where 15.000 lbs cargo went out of camp. At the same time 7 persons left and 2 new arrived, so that the camp population now is 8 persons. A new food freezer is being constructed as the old one is now too deep down.

Wednesday, July 30th
Daily life

Science
The bore hole is temperature logged to a depth of 3035 m. In order not to mix the basal water in the hole with drilling liquid, the logging does not continue all the way to the bottom. From the logging it is estimated that the temperature at the bottom of the bore hole is -2.41 deg. C.
Logistics

Thursday, July 31st
Daily life

Science

Logistics
There was another flight mission to camp. The C130 arrived with a triple pallet of wood for a new drill trench roof construction and it left fully loaded with four pallets. Fortunately, the Hercs now successfully depart from NorthGRIP with full retro load. The high success rate is probably due to the lower temperatures and the increased wind speed.

Friday, August 1st
Daily life

Science

Logistics
Yet another flight mission to camp. This time 7 visitors from NSF had a short tour of the camp. Also this plane was able to depart with full retro load, including most of the ice core drillind this season.

Saturday, August 2nd
Daily life
The Saturday night dinner menu was a delicious Swiss oil and boullion fondue.
Science

Logistics
Lots of snow to be removed after a heavy snow fall.

Sunday, August 3rd
Daily life

Science

Logistics
A moving of the large storage tent called 'The Lucht Castle' is prepared. Like it has been done for several of the smaller tents, the plan is now to move this huge tent up on a new snow hill in order to extend its life time and avoid too much drifting.

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