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CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVEx) 2011 Our route Rosie Willatt Me! Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Derek, Troy and Justin Seymour Laxon. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Christian Hass. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Malcolm Davidson. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Stefan Hendricks Getting to the Arctic: Iqaluit Airport Getting to the Arctic: Iqaluit Airport Getting to the Arctic: Around Iqaluit Airport Getting to the Arctic: The plane to Resolute Resolute: View from my bedroom window Resolute: Building corner reflector stands Resolute: Corner reflector stands built! Getting to Alert: Departures Getting to Alert: A full load Getting to Alert: A full load. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Getting to Alert: Refuling at Eureka Getting to Alert: Refuling at Eureka Alert Unloading at Alert Building the radar antenna stand (designed by John Bowles @ UCL - thanks!). Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Getting the kit together in the wearhouse. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon CryoVEx planes on the runway at Alert Me after taking the photo! Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Checking the weather to see if we could fly Loading up our kit. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Looking at a satellite image to spot a good place to land on the ice Landing on the sea ice Drilling to check how thick the ice we had landed on was (about 1.8 m!) Setting up the experiment sites: Me carrying a corner reflector Setting up the experiment sites: Me carrying a corner reflector Setting up the experiment sites Setting up the experiment sites. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Setting up the experiment sites. Malcolm, Rosie and me. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Setting up the experiment sites. Rosie and me. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Me, setting up the radar. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Setting up the radar. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Rosie and the radar Roise and me looking at a radar shot. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Derek and Troy, our pilots, pulling the radar to the site. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Making a snow pit. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Heading out to the fast ice. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Getting stuck. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Justin and Rosie making snow depth measurements Christian and Malcolm. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Sea ice ridge Sea ice ridge Christian in the base of the ridge. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Corner reflector and snow grid Measurement site. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Lunch. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Rosie and me. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Seymour, disappearing in a cloud of smoke! Setting up for the transect measurements Polar bear tracks. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt Wolf at Alert Wolf at Alert Rosie and me on the fast ice. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Stefan, Rosie, Justin and me. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Heading back to Alert. Photo credit: Rosie Willatt The team. Photo credit: Seymour Laxon Writing up our notes

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