{"id":596,"date":"2016-04-20T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/?p=596"},"modified":"2016-04-20T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T16:40:33","slug":"pre-traverse-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/2016\/04\/20\/pre-traverse-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Traverse Preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Firncover science team made it to Kangerlussuaq yesterday evening after a long C130 flight from Stratton Air National Guard Base in New York\u00a0(and\u00a0a quick stop in Newfoundland).<\/p>\n

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Sun setting in Kangerlussuq, Greenland – S\u00f8ndre Str\u00f8mfjord in Danish, photo courtesy Darren Hill<\/p><\/div>\n

Today the team prepares for the 2016 Greenland field season with communication meetings, runway protocol, checking equipment, logistics, food sorting and palleting. \u00a0Needless to say, the preparations seem endless, but being over-prepared \u00a0is definitely better than the alternative. If weather holds up, they should be on their way to the ice sheet by this Saturday.<\/p>\n

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A lot of food to sort through… (photo courtesy Darren Hill)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Equipment\/logistics meeting (Photo courtesy Darren Hill)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Making sure all the necessary equipment is in order and ready for palleting (photo courtesy Darren Hill)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Firncover science team made it to Kangerlussuaq yesterday evening after a long C130 flight from Stratton Air National Guard Base in New York\u00a0(and\u00a0a quick stop in Newfoundland). Today the team prepares for the 2016 Greenland field season with communication meetings, runway protocol, checking equipment, logistics, food sorting and palleting. \u00a0Needless to say, the preparations… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[5,54,53,52],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kangerlussuaq","category-preparations","tag-greenland","tag-preparations","tag-research","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 13:28:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/firncover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}