The second half of year 2013

This year has been quite different from all other years. First of all, I moved to denmark and consequently moved from Lars who stayed in Sweden. This resulted in a lot of hours spent on the train between Gothenburg and Copenhagen, especially for Lars. It has also been different because Copenhagen is a large city (at least for me) and I started a new life, not knowing anyone and got a job. 

Well, I established my self on CENPERM, where the office is located. 

It was also summer, long time ago, and only for a few weeks in between trips to greenland and Northern Sweden (for Lars). People say it was a nice summer. 

Yeah, all the trips to Greenland.Where a experienced both summer, autumn and winter.

We also bought an apartment. 

I made a sofa out of EUR pellets.

Old friends came to visit.

And also my mum with husband.

We live nearby the sea and I bought a camera that can cope with wet conditions.

We communicated our research to the public in the botanical garden.

A lot of biking of course!

Oh yeah. Beautiful Copenhagen!

Michelle and I went to a course about BVOC in Eastern Finland (snow in october).

 It became winter.

 And, of course, all the CENPERM PhDs went to Tivoli.

And it is only mid december! A lot of things can still happen and who knows what will end up on the blog before this year is over. 

Cheers!

Fieldwork 2013 video

Here is a video from my fieldwork 2013, enjoy!

This is the wet site

Winter day

Nynne is measuring CO2 fluxes.. hihi, I wonder how much photosynthesis there is today!

Late winter

Last year the first snow came in august (-Zackenberg, NE Greenland) and the year before that it came in august (Ritsem, N Sweden), but this year it was very late.. In september, the 12th...

I'm done with fieldwork, for this year

Today was my last day in field. I measured BVOC and VOX at the eddy tower site. It was a bit chilly with below zero this morning but efter some hours the temp incresed to atleast 5...  It feels both very nice to be done and at the same time a bit sad. It's so nice to do fieldwork when your life just circles around what you are doing at exactly that moment. It is kind of meditative... Now I have a lot of packing to do. I have two days and I also have to go to the snow fence again to get a soil core for a PhD at Cenperm. So, I'll not be bored. On sunday we are going to Aasiaat, and on monday morning are we flying from there to Copenhagen. I do not look forward to the trip. It is long and will be very heavy with too much luggage... So long!

Rainy day that turned out to be very nice

Today I went out to the snowfence. The, so called, dry site. Not very dry recently I must say. Today it seemed like that the weather would be quite okey. However, heavy rain came seconds after that the first measurements started. It continued until one minute before the last measurements were done. So everything, including me, was very wet. No pictures to show, because it was simply to wet. So just when I was done with the fieldwork for today the sun worked its way through the clouds and a blue sky appeared, out of nowhere it seemed. So, I did some meta data collection while my things, my instruments and my self dried a bit. Then, I walk to the station. 

Some few hours later it looked like this:

Wanna play football?!

I wonder where those trees came from, I haven't seen any around...

This is how we want it to be!

BVOC measurements on the dry snow fence site

I can't stop taking photos. It is so beautiful with all the colors and it is just so nice to be out there. 

Sunglasses on!

note: there is a boat to the left of the iceberg, just to see the size of it...

snowy mountains

Harsh living Dwarf birch

Qeqertarsuaq

This is what you find when taking a walk in Qeqertarsuaq. A rainy Saturday afternoon. 

The station in the background.

Not very hungry?! *Dead fish everywhere

The small harbor for the small fishing boats