Müller Ice Cap Daily Report Friday May 9

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 Daily Report for 9 May 2025

 A day of ups and downs here at the Müller Ice Cap. Starting with one of the hard facts of remote field camps, we are not equipped to take care of any potential serious medical conditions for more than a brief period of time. Hence, we had to call a Twin Otter to medivac our camp cook today, as a mainly precautionary measure, making use of the splendid weather conditions we have – a big thank you to Issy and Rod for quickly getting Taylor back to Resolute, and many hugs to Taylor, and fingers crossed that she will be able to return after assessment and treatment in Iqaluit.

On the positive side, all our drilling and science operations in camp are progressing at pace, but with some 20% of our main cores being difficult to handle today, due to the brittleness of the ice. Cores with many fractures are a challenge for the logging, and at also for some of the science to be done. We do our best to adjust on both drilling and logging procedures, and thankfully did see improvement in core quality during the latter part of the day.     


What we have done:

- Drilling main core in shifts, drilled 15 runs from 464.86m to 495.58 (30.72 m).

- Logged and O18 sampled bags from bag 465 to 495.

- Drilling second shallow core, current logged depth: 31m.

- Worked on firn-gas setup in the tent SE of camp.

- Received Twin Otter for precautionary medivac.

 

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: Sunny day. Wind between 0 and 7 kn turning from 270 deg true to 225 deg true during the day, temperatures between -26 and -10 deg C.

Caption: Ali and Julien discussing drilling operations, and Richard logging the main core. 

 

Caption: Top, a section of Müller main core with many fractures due to ice brittleness: Bottom, a few meters deeper a freshly drilled core that makes us all much happier.





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