August 12th: 8am departure from Reykjavik – the expedition begins!

After two days in Iceland preparing the ship for our expedition, we finally set sail! We are headed for Eastern Greenland, to recover and re-deploy an ocean mooring set out by the British Antarctic Survey last summer as part of the KAN-GLAC project. The KAN-GLAC project studies how the Greenland Ice Sheet is affecting our climate, the ocean and its marine life.

As we left the harbour the sea was calm. We stood on deck watching puffins and everyone was happy. As we sailed into the open sea, the waves grew to 3m, and tested our (not yet existent) sea legs!

Lunch was poorly attended, and the rest of our transit was spent in rolling waves.

Julia Muchowski, ECS-program Coordinator