Early in the morning of 7 June 2022, 28 glaciology students from around the world convened at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) for the sixth biennial International Summer School in Glaciology.After a short welcome and introduction of the instructors, we lost no time and quickly got onto vans to […]

This post will introduce you to my life in the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, a place where you can leave the settlement only with a rifle, where you have to take off your shoes when you enter university due to an old miner’s tradition and where the crop seeds of […]