Northern Research

Basins

14th International Symposium

and Workshop

Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

22-29 August 2003

TRIP MAP

Trip 1 Trip 2

Trip 7

Trip 3

Trip 4

Trip 8

Trip 5Trip 6

Kangerlussuaq 5 km

TRIP 1: Arctic Cotton Grass

Autumn Colors

The perfect season for blueberries and low-bush cranberries.

TRIP 2: Mountain bike to a water fall and Sugar Loaf Mountain.

The waterfall team: Ole Jorgensen, Bent Hasholt, and Anu Reinart.

Big Water!

Fine glacial sand/sediment.

The Greenland ice sheet, from the top of Sugar Loaf.

TRIP 3: A pig roast in Kangerlussuaq!

TRIP 4: A rainy day west of Kangerlussuaq.

TRIP 5: Climbing big rock slabs on the way to look for Musk ox.

Musk ox.

TRIP 6: An evening hike above the mud/fossil flats.

TRIP 7: The Greenland Ice Sheet.

Old (dirty) glacier ice.

An ice road on the ice sheet, it extends 130 km inland.

TRIP 8: A beach barbeque the last day of the conference.

The hills and rocks above the beach.

The gray water in the near side of the fjord is from the sediment in the ice-sheet melt.

Lichen on granite.

Larry Hinzman

Reindeer antler.

The end of the beach party, and the end of the Conference!