Last month the PERMANTAR team drilled a new borehole in bedrock in Barton Peninsula, which will be part of the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost. We used a "portable" Weka drill powered by an electrical generator and after some hard work carrying all equipment up to 120 m asl by hand, we succeeded in installing a new observatory down to 13 m. The field team was Gonçalo Vieira, Daniel Vonder Mühll, Carlos Neto and Joana Baptista, with excellent support of Pedro Pina and Vasco Miranda from the VEGETANTAR project and Alper Gürbüz of the Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University. The drilling campaign was a collaboration between the CEG/IGOT - University of Lisbon, ETH, CERENA/IST-University of Lisbon and KOPRI. Funds were provided by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the Programa Polar Português, CEG/IGOT and the Swiss GCOS Office.
PERMANTAR was also active this season in Livingston and Deception Islands, as well as in Cierva Point. More info on these soon.
PERMANTAR was also active this season in Livingston and Deception Islands, as well as in Cierva Point. More info on these soon.
