Dr. Jérôme CHAPPELLAZ - Some of my pictures taken during scientific field expeditions

Some of my pictures taken during scientific field expeditions

The C130 landed at NEEM

Inside the C130, toward NEEM

Gone for 3 weeks

Melt lakes over the inlandsis

Drilling system in the drill trench

Nice ice core just brought at surface

Partial view of camp, with the dome

Drill tent over the trench

Sleeping tents at midnight

The drilling trench

The science trench

Our analytical lab, with optical detectors inside

Comfortable dining room in the dome

Jean-Louis Tison and Kenji Kawamura working hard !

Polar heroes fighting in the storm

My optical detector SARA producing beautiful data

Science is fun !

The CFA night team : Diana, Paul and Nerilie

I give a hand at the shallow drilling

Pirate : the sun hits hard on my head !

The Chartreuse alcohol is liked at any latitude

NEEM, Greenland

June 2010 - July 2010

Location : NEEM, Greenland ; 77°27'N, 51°03'W, altitude 2484 m

Mean annual temperature : -28°C

Team members 2010 : 14 nations involved ; Danish coordination : Dorthe Dahl-Jensen ; on the French side, we were three over the same time period) : Olivier Alemany (LGGE), Jérôme Chappellaz (LGGE), Grégory Teste (LGGE)

Activities : during our stay, we ended the deep drilling, reaching a final depth of 2537.36 m. We performed an impressive number of ice-core analyses directly in the field, with probably the most sophisticated instrumental setting ever deployed for an ice core drilling operation.

My work in the field : I was in charge of optimizing the behaviour of a brand-new optical detector developed by our colleagues from LSP-Grenoble, to continuously measure the methane mixing ratio along the ice core. During my free time, I gave a hand for handling the ice cores in the science trench.