Devon Island, Canadian Arctic

April 1998

Location : Devon Island, Canadian Arctic ; 75°20’N, 82°08’W, altitude 1930 m

Mean annual temperature : -23°C

Team members 1998 : Jérôme Chappellaz (LGGE, Fr.), Ian Clark (Univ. Ottawa, Ca.), David Fisher (Univ. Ottawa, Ca.), Michael Gerasimov (Icefield Instruments, Ca.), Lori Henderson (Univ. Ottawa, Ca.), Roy Koerner (Univ. Ottawa, Ca.), Chris Zdanowicz (Univ. Ottawa, Ca.)

Activities : we conducted ice-core drilling down to close-off and firn air pumping, in the frame of the European project Firetracc/100

My work in the field : I was in charge of the firn air pumping experiments.