A glorious week of sunshine, low winds and calm waters have allowed us to ease into island lifestyle, become familiar with camp and start our sampling campaigns.

Several thousand kilometers and a few hiccups later, we are happy to announce that the Herschel Island summer expedition team of 2019 arrived safely in Inuvik on Monday 22nd July.

After leaving the boat crew on the Blackstone River, Frederieke and Paul drove north along the Dempster Highway to sample rivers flowing into the Peel River.

On this expedition we want to find out what this means for the river water that flows from permafrost regions to the Arctic Ocean.

After long preparations, the helicopter expedition is finally starting for real.

The Nunataryuk/WP4 Coastal Waters team started their second expedition in the Mackenzie delta on 17 June 2019.

This week we finished our field campaign, prepared our departure from Herschel Island and flew back to Inuvik.

For the second half of our expedition, the composition of our team has changed somewhat. Andreas Richter and Louis-Philippe Roy left on April 25, and Hugues Lantuit came in instead.

Last week everything went according to our meticulously prepared plan. This week the reality of doing field work in remote places of the Arctic gripped us.

The Takuvik-AWI team successfully completed the first WP4 expedition. A fortunate stroke of serendipity? Undeniably.

The countdown before the ultimate lift off has begun. Six team mates. Five airplane take-offs and landings. Four pieces of luggage each.

Up here in the North, the spring field season has started and we are busy preparing the Nunataryuk Expedition Yukon Coast 2019 Spring.

After a rushed session of box filling, stacking, identifying, enumerating and wrapping, the scientific gear is finally on the move.

Nunataryuk field visit to Ilulissat and Qeqertarsuaq in Greenland to host local consultations and interviews.

In February 2019, members of the Nunataryuk WP4 “Coastal Waters” team conduct a tour of the Northwest Territories communities.