Our fourth week started out with two days of hard slogging, carrying boats and sampling and camping gear five km around Aberdeen Canyon

The third week began with a drive up from Whitehorse with new participants.

The terrestrial Permafrost team has arrived in Inuvik on Tuesday the 29th of July.

We are aware that weather conditions may change rapidly in the Arctic. However, even the experienced polar scientists were fascinated by the fast changes today.

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.