#CryoVEx2014 team heads to Sachs Harbour today

Yesterday morning we found a plane to take us to Sachs Harbour today. In a few hours we will fly in a Beechcraft King Air 200 from Aklak Air (affiliated with the Ken Borek company) from Inuvik to Sach's Harbour.  

We will spend some time in Sach's Harbour going through the equipment we have shipped (four different shipments; one from each of us) to make everything a bit more efficient and compact for in the field.

We plan to fly to MIZ ONR Camp 3 on Sunday for a short program there for one or two days and then head to our main camp, Camp 2.

Map of the proposed camp sites from the MIZ planning document. Actual positions will be different based on ice conditions. Right now, all camps seem to be displaced northwards by about 1 degree of latitude or 60 nautical miles.

I'm hoping that the weather forecast holds true because it looks GREAT!

Sachs Harbour Weather Forecast from Environment Canada. Courtesy Environment Canada.

Unfortunately, I only trust it for the next 24 hours at most. Right now the radar image also looks very good. You can see most of the ice in the study area, even with that cloud in the way (so it must be thin).

AVHRR image from 2014/03/15 1206UTC. Courtesy of the Canadian Ice Service.

I think from here on my internet connection is essentially gone. My satellite phone will be used to send out some tweets using @SIBeckers (me) and the #CryoVEx2014 hashtag.

Be safe everyone.