Müller Ice Cap Daily Report for 17 and 18 May 2025

 Daily Report for 17 and 18 May 2025

A fantastic weekend here at the Müller Ice Cap. First of all, we celebrated the end of the main core drilling, with a delicious Saturday dinner: Maple candied sockeye Salmon nuggets accompanied with smoked salmon, rice and veggies for the main course and apple pie for dessert – thank you Rebecca for cooking! Then Sunday morning, a new adventure here in Camp: The Müller Ice Cap Spa! Now that the main drilling operation has ended, the heating equipment and power needed for recovering drill liquid has been diverted to generate hot water for showers and washing. A shower is a much welcome addition to camp, as most of us have not had a nice bath for close to 2 weeks - thank you Julien for setting this up! The weekend has also been productive in other ways, with drilling of four Kovacs cores and the continuation of shallow-drilling and firn-gas sampling as well as digging and sampling of pits. In the drill tent we have started packing down equipment, moving it to the cargo line. Sunday evening, we rounded off the weekend with our first movie night: Ali showing us all the spectacular movie “For Winter” documenting her team scaling Mt. Logan in order to retrieve a 300+ meter ice core from the extreme high elevation glacier on the majestic mountain!

 

 

What we have done this weekend:

- Celebrated the completion of the main core drilling operation.

- Continued drilling of shallow core for firn-gas sampling, current depth: 49m. 

- Continued firn-gas sampling, two more levels sampled.

- Drilled 4 Kovacs hand-auger cores, all to a depth of 3m.

- Dug and sampled two snow pits.

- Started pack-down of equipment in drill tent.

- Made a shower for camp.

- Had our first movie night.

 

We are 13 in camp (Alison, Etienne, Iben, Rebecca, Fei, Richard, Nicholas, Tessa, Nerilie, Anais, Jamie, Julien and Bo)

 

Alison Criscitiello and Bo Vinther.

 

Wx at Müller: Mainly sunny until midday Sunday, then periods of increasing cloud cover and light intermittent snow and varying visibility Sunday evening. Wind increased from 2-5kn Saturday, turning from 320 deg true to 270 deg true to 10kn Sunday, turning to 230 deg true, Saturday temperatures between -20C and –8C, Sunday temperatures between -22C and –12C.


Caption: Group pictures here from our camp at the Müllers Ice Cap. Upper picture field team 1 (Left to right: Emma, Grant, Dave, Sofia, Dorthe, Jaime, Shari, Alison, Etienne and Kevin) who setup camp and drilled the first 450m of the main core. Lower picture, field team 2 (Left to right: Tessa, Iben, Jamie, Julien, Rebecca, Nicholas, Anais, Alison, Nerilie, Fei, Bo, Richard and Etienne) who has now completed the main ice core drilling to a depth of approximately 613m and is making good progress with the firn-gas campaign. The deepest main core section including a layer of rocks gravel and sand is proudly presented by team 2, as are the flags of Canada and Nunavut.





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