Geobulletin alpha

Imaggeo on Mondays: Heavy machinery 

How do you get heavy machinery, such as a drill spool onto an ice sheet? This week’s imaggeo on Mondays’ photography captures the freighting of components of a hot water drill to directly access and observe the physical and geothermal properties at the ice-bed interface. In the image, SAFIRE principal investigator Bryn Hubbard and post-doc Sam Doyle help fly in the drill spool at the start of the Summer 2014 field campaign on Store Glacier, Western Greenland. Freighting several [...]

The oldest and 'biggest ever' asteroid crater discovered in Greenland 

A team of geologists from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) in Copenhagen, Cardiff University in Wales, Lund University in Sweden and the Institute of Planetary Science in Moscow has found the remains of a giant asteroid impact crater in Western Greenland that is over 3 billion years old! Preliminary size estimates of the impacting meteorite at Maniitsoq suggest it may have had a diameter of approximately 30 km resulting in an impact crater of somewhere around 500-600 km. If [...]

Probably the largest mass movement ever recorded on video 

The makers of the film Chasing Ice recorded an extraordinary collapse event on the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. This video is now available on

Albany to Alert 

Our annual trip to the Arctic starts in Albany, where the Air National Guard will fly us north in a  venerable C130 Hercules military transport plane filled with our equipment. First stop is Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, where we stay overnight. Kangerlussuaq (Danish for Søndre Strømfjord) is a settlement in western Greenland. It is Greenland’s main air transport hub, s largest commercial

A 30 year history of measuring Greenland’s Breathtaking Vista’s 

We flew our last science flight out of Kangerlussuaq Base (western Greenland) over the Geikie Peninsula, on the east coast of Greenland. This was a high priority mission that had not been completed prior to this because of weather in the peninsula area. The focus of the mission was to determine both how the surface

Greenland Oil Exploration 

A fifth of the world's undiscovered but exploitable gas and oil reserves may lie in the Arctic, some of it in Greenland. A new wave of oil exploration has started. The Edinburgh-based firm Cairn Energy has just announced that it has started drilling for oil in the Disko West area offshore in western Greenland, where it has a four-well exploration programme planned. Other oil firms are following. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has estimated that there may be as much as 50,000 million barrels of [...]

Greenland Glaciers Satellite Image 

Earth Observatory has published a satellite image that shows several glaciers flowing into a dry valley in Western