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Friday #fieldwork photo:
a swidden garden in East Pomio, #PapuaNewGuinea.

The garden is planted with sweet potato, cassava, banana and yam, and probably many other plants.

#anthropology
#FridayFieldworkPhoto #FieldworkPhotoFriday
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A color photograph showing a tropical landscape. In the foreground is a garden growing with bananas, cassava, sweet potato and other plants. The garden is on a slope and in the background are forest-covered mountains.

A typical North Mengen "cooking house" (vail ta) in Pomio, #PapuaNewGuinea. Each household has one and it is where the married couple and uninitiated children live. The women in the photo are heating stones of an earth oven (svoin) and preparing taro to be roasted in it.

Food cooked in the earth oven is presented especially during ceremonial gift exchanges.

#anthropology cc: @anthropology (or #FridayFieldPhoto, #FridayFieldworkPhoto series started by @Ruth_Mottram )

A black and white photo of thatched roof house from the inside. The door and window of the house are open. A woman stands inside in front of the door, another kneels peeling taro tubers. There is smoke inside the house. A pile of stones is in the middle of the house and flames come from between the stones. The house has an earth floor.

The walls are lined with benches and shelves holding cooking ware.

So, since I need a break from marking coursework, and I just saw a #FridayFieldworkPhoto from Antarctica, here's one from up north. The icebreaker Polarstern on the day it first moored to its ice floe at the start of the year-long #MOSAiC field campaign, on Oct 5 2019.
#Arctic #seaice

Photo of the icebreaker Polarstern from the sea ice, looking up from forward of the starboard bow. A few people are walking around on the ice.

Because I haven't had the time/energy to be very active online lately, so today I will combine #FridayFieldWorkPhoto with some bird photography. On research vessels, we are frequently visited by birds loooking for a resting spot or possibly mistaking us for fishing vessels. I love these opportunities to observe birds on the open sea especially when the conditions are as beautiful as on this calm day with the fulmars on the Skagerak.
#FieldworkFriday #Bird #Nature #Ocean #Sea #Water #Wildlife

A fulmar making a splash landing in the Sea.

A fulmar gliding over the mirror-like sea, one wing tip barely touching the water and its full relfection underneath.

#FridayFieldworkPhoto part 6: A woman preparing her yam garden for planting.

The Mengen in Pomio plant two kinds of yam, the greater yam (Dioscorea alata, Mengen: klaip, Tok Pisin: yam) and the lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta, M: mis, TP: mami ).

After burning, women meticulously clean the plots from all debris before planting the yam in mounds.

#horticulture #agriculture #anthropology #PapuaNewGuinea
#FieldPhotoFriday by @Ruth_Mottram
cc: @anthropology

Black and white photo of woman in a blouse and skirt, barefooted and head covered bent over garden and cleaning the soil with her hands.

#FridayFieldworkPhoto
#Chile 2020
A helicopter delivering #geophysics field equipment to the top of #Villarrica #volcano. It was the first (and so far only) project I've been on that used helicopters. If I recall correctly we installed gas monitors, did photography and gas sampling from a drone, and installed a seismometer, a gps station, and a gravimeter.

#science #geoscience #travel #seismology

A helicopter delivering geophysics field instruments to the top of Villarrica volcano in Chile. Four people are visible, two looking on from a distance and two handling the equipment net being lowered by the helicopter

Time for another #FridayFieldworkPhoto from #InglefieldBredning #Greenland from June 2021.

In the field, everyone lends a hand: Here we are hauling up the mooring that my #DMIdk colleague #SteffenOlsen leaves out every year to measure ocean temperature, salinity etc through the winter using #SeaIce as a #science platform.
The red buoy marks the position, the water here is 3-500m deep so pulling it up from the bottom takes some time + muscle power.
#FieldPhotoFriday #FridayFieldPhoto

Blue sky over mountains in the background, in the foreground, on snow covered sea ice, 4 people are hauling on a rope that leads to a hole in the ice where a 5th person is leading the rope carefully out. There are footprints in the snow marking where people have paced back and forth. Two bright red buoys are placed on the ice nearby

#FridayFieldworkPhoto part 5:

A men's house (ging) in a North Mengen village in East Pomio. Men's houses are in the center of villages with houses lining them on either side.

Villages have typically several men's houses established by neighboring households. The fronts of the men's houses serve as public and ceremonial spaces. Initiated boys and unmarried or widowed men live in them.

#anthropology #gender #PapuaNewGuinea #FieldPhotoFriday by @Ruth_Mottram

cc: @anthropology

A black and white photo showing a round, thatc-roofed house on the right on an open space. Boys stand further away on the left. In the background is another round thatched house and behind it houses and trees. It rains heavily, streams of water run on the sandy ground.

A fresh offering for #FieldPhotoFriday / #FridayFieldworkPhoto

Sampling frozen #microbial communities from the surface of a High Arctic #glacier yesterday - what lives through polar night? #NERC #Aberystwyth #Svalbard

I'm holding a frozen chunk of cryoconite, a dark microbial mineral aggregate found on glaciers, up to the camera. We know that cryoconite his home to billions of microbes which are busy in summer, but not the full extent of their diversity and activity through the winter. It's a balmy -8*C during polar night conditions when this photo was taken.

#FridayFieldworkPhoto

#Monitoring of #vegetation #succession of the #glacier forefields of Hallstätter Glacier #Dachstein (Austria).
I monitor the succession here since 2016 and at glaciers in Nationalpark Berchtesgaden since 2018

The forefield of Hallstätter Glacier (Dachstein, Austria). Many sparsely vegetated rocks, a vegetation sample quadrat in the foreground and the glacier in the background.

A close-up of some blue flowering gentians (Gentiana orbicularis)

#FridayFieldworkPhoto, part 4

Nursery of a communal #cocoa planting project in East Pomio, #PapuaNewGuinea.

Cocoa fetches a relatively good price for smallholders, who have to transport the crop to buying points. The cocoa project was locally initiated as a source of income compatible with swidden horticulture and that does not require alienation of land.

#anthropology #agriculture #LandUse cc: @anthropology

(The hashtag was started by @Ruth_Mottram ; #FieldPhotoFriday )

Black and white photograph of two men standing amidst cocoa seedlings in a cocoa nursery. The man on the front left is with his back turned to the camera and rests a machete on his shoulder. On the back right a man is bent over the cocoa he is tending.

Friday means time for #FieldPhotoFriday (or if you prefer #FridayFieldworkPhoto #FridayFieldPhoto)

These were some of the first #IceFlowers I ever saw on #SeaIce this spring. Made me realise there was more going on in that part of the #Cryosphere than I'd imagined and I should pay it more attention!

Astonishingly beautiful and fragile, they grow on #SeaIceleads by evaporation+ condensation. Fascinating #FluidDynamics and surprisingly #salty tasting!

White sea ice stretching to the horizon with a dark grey stripe through the middle showing where liquid sea water is seeping up through a crack in the ice. The crack is starting to freeze over with a thin layer of new pale grey looking sea ice gradually growing from the edges to almost meet in the middles. Along the whole crack delicate white star like ice "flowers are growing. They are each about the size of a large thumbnail and have a delicate feathery appearance..

#FridayFieldworkPhoto no. 3

Palm oil is pumped onto a tanker in the East Pomio (East New Britain), #PapuaNewGuinea. The tug boat next to the ship help with pulling the palm oil hose connecting the pipeline coming from the mill to the ship.

In the background coconut plantings and garden lands of the village community next to the plantation.

#anthropology #OilPalm #PalmOil #infrastructure #shipping
#FieldPhotoFriday #FridayFieldPhoto (or what is the correct tag??!1)

Black and white photo showing a tanker ship in the foreground. In front the ship is a smaller tug boat. A seagull flies across the photo. In the background coconut plantings on the beach and behind it forested hills and a cloudy sky.

I meant to post more this week but all of a sudden it's Friday again already... time for some fieldwork photos. This time less clean work with a lot of mud coming from over 6000m water depth of the North Atlantic. During expedition MSM96, I measured profiles of dissolved oxygen concentrations in cores from the surface sediment. The more organic material settles from the surface, the more oxygen gets consumed in the sediment.
#FieldWorkFriday #FridayFieldWorkPhoto #MarineScience #Ocean #Friday

Oxygen concentrations are being measured in a sediment core using voltammetric electrodes in a cool room at sea.

A multicorer with sediment samples from the deep sea is being recovered by crew members on the RV Maria S. Merian with a rainbow in the background.

Time for #FridayFieldworkPhoto (thanks @tutam for the reminder..!)

Here are two of the lego scientists I take with me to make stories for my children when I'm on #Fieldwork , measuring the depth of #snow that has accumulated on a #glacier in #Greenland

#FieldPhotoFriday #Fieldwork

(You can read the story here: https://icemangoeshome.wordpress.com/)

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