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Hello! Happy summer! I hope you’ve had yourself an adventure or two. As you can see in the video above, I’ve managed at least one* …
I spent last week on the volcanic island of Surtsey, located off the southwestern coast of Iceland. This unusual place–and the men and women who study it–will be the subject of my next ‘Scientists in the Field‘ book. It’s going to take me a while to edit my photographs and process the incredible experiences I had, but if you happen to read Icelandic, you can get an overview of the mission now right here. And if you don’t speak Icelandic, you can just head over there and gaze at the incredible photos members of the 2015 Surtsey expedition team took and shared.
*The video, taken by Dr. Pawel Wasowicz, shows me and several other expedition team members as we were transported off the island. The Icelandic coast guard picked us up on shore, ferried us out to a cutter waiting at sea, and made sure none of us fell into the North Atlantic as we made our way up and onto its deck!