NUK station fieldwork, software paper accepted and restarting dormant projects

Let's try and document my work again, now with a fresh start back to work after some leave. The month started straight into fieldwork, with scheduled weather station maintenance at two of our PROMICE sites near Nuuk, NUK-U and NUK-L. These two stations are the upper and lower stations on Qamanaarsuup Sermia, a glacier located at the bottom of Nuup Kangerlua (Nuuk Fjord).

What was meant to be two fieldwork days stretched into three weeks on standby due to bad weather. But finally we got a full field day, where both stations could be maintained. The upper station's logger box had some wiring problems, which meant the box was replaced; whilst the lower station was found in a precarious position in the ablation area, perched on a serrac and leaning towards a shallow crevasse. We hope that next year the lower station can be moved upglacier and upgraded to our most recent station version.

NUK-U, the upper station situated on Qamanaarsuup Sermia at the bottom of Nuup Kangerlua (Nuuk Fjord), SW Greenland. Between two station visits in August and September, the site has had a lot of snow. Our September visit was pretty chilly also!

Whilst I was on leave, our software paper for pypromice was reviewed and accepted into Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). With a totally transparent and open review through Github, it made for a refreshing and enjoyable review process which I highly recommend for anyone wanting to publish code. Since then, I have been asked by JOSS to review a new ice sheet model programmed in Julia, so have also been enjoying this review process from the other side now.

I've also restarted my ESA Living Planet Fellowship work, looking at mapping and monitoring ice-marginal lakes around Greenland. It was a bit daunting picking up a project after a year of dormancy, but fresh eyes on it have meant I have new ideas and approaches. The goal by the end of year is to recreate the existing ESA CCI ice-marginal lake under a unifying and efficient workflow, which I can then apply to other time periods in the next phase of the project.