Toby Thorleifsson collects ice. Click on the image to see more photos from the expedition. (Photos courtesy of New Land 2013)
The New Land 2013 expedition is following the route of Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup across Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. This blog was written by Toby Thorleifsson.
We are now about midway across the big Nansen Sound, and we are camping directly on the sea ice tonight. Let me tell you a little bit about the sea ice we’ve spent so much time on up here.
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Students try out their new face masks in a workshop on Greenlandic mask dancing
The Students on Ice Arctic expedition is over, we've made our sad farewells and are all returning to our daily routines. One thing I miss about being up North is our daily story time.
Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, mother, student, writer, performer — and, incidentally, a fellow staff member on the expedition — shared Inuit stories with us every night that we were aboard the Akademik Ioffe. To fully appreciate our surroundings as we sailed north along the coast of Baffin Island and across Davis ...
Usually, Iqaluit mayor Madeleine Redfern explains, ships start coming into Iqaluit at the end of the first week of July, when the ice has cleared just enough for them to navigate without peril. This year, they were only able to make it in at around the third week of July. Geoff Green showed us a series of ice charts courtesy of the Canadian Ice Service tracking ice cover along the coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut. Though wind and currents are sweeping away some ...
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Thursday, August 02, 2012
Greetings from Iqaluit!
As an online editor, I'm used to shifting deadlines and last-minute projects that need to be done, finished, perfectly polished and out the door by...yesterday. It's those surprise tasks that often end up being the most interesting. One day this past spring for example, I was at my cubicle minding my own business when our managing editor sauntered in and asked me ever so casually whether I had any plans for August. I told him I did not. He then asked whether I wanted ...
