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And on nearby sloped areas in Minnesota our partners researched a natural, clay-based material meant to stay in place longer on steep glacial slopes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/690405ea-5b05-4aa0-858c-f7b71092e06e/3.jpg NEWS - Working at the Speed of Ice – A Letter from our Founder - Make it stand out A small field test in August on the Langjokull Glacier in Iceland, collaborating with glaciologist Dr. Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson of the Icelandic Meteorological Office, permitted by Icelandic governmental agencies. https://www.brighticeinitiative.org/news/iceland monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/c9480315-c9e2-4d32-ae16-ae5119391749/5.jpg NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Standing on the glacier, looking uphill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/b1697947-1265-4ffd-8db0-2895e19742eb/6.jpg NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out The team for this field test includes (from left to right): Gregory Barth, who took samples, assembled testing frameworks for the cameras, took GPS measurements as well as other notes, and shot photos, some of which you see here. Glaciologist Dr. Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson was the lead of the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) team members for this project. He suggested this area of Langjökull glacier, obtained permissions for the field test work, arranged the logistics of transportation and team from the IMO, assisted in team transportation, rented safety gear for everyone, helped coordinate the IMO team to ready the instruments, and worked with the team to position and installi instrumentation on the site. Jóhannes Andrésson and Hákon Halldórsson— both from the Icelandic Meterological Office—helped position, install, and program the instrumentation. Kristinn, of tour company Into the Glacier, which coordinated safe transportation of our team and gear for this scientific research expedition, and Dr. Leslie Field, pictured and described below, who co-led the expedition in collaboration with the Icelandic Met Office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/12fff0d8-24be-47ca-943a-92d257263c78/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+9.46.33%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/61202077-cdd2-4ada-83a8-56a9a5011255/7.jpg NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Gear included: weather stations, devices for albedo (brightness) measurement, ablation stakes to monitor snow and ice thickness, sample bottles and bags, materials to test for effectiveness and safety of ice preservation, notebooks, labels, markers, pens, cameras, ice crampons, solar cells, batteries, automated cameras, data loggers, GPS measurement tools, small rocks to mark corners of the sites, ice axes and picks, a steam drill to help drive in stakes to hold the equipment in place, PVC piping and plastic sheeting to define the test areas, hollow glass microspheres (HGMs) and white glacier granules (WGGs), seed spreaders to distribute the materials in the respective test areas, sandwiches, water, and gear for the cold (not all pictured here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/57a82a1d-feb7-4601-9a19-fa0f086e8dca/8.jpg NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Assembling a solar panel to power the equipment and a weather station which will measure air temperature, humidity, wind speed, and wind direction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/4a94bbb3-8602-43e3-81cf-e74d6a9ea7cd/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+9.50.36%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Weather-station data are stored in a control box which can be accessed by phone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/c13777a9-71db-4542-b65a-2b67afd925d8/9.jpg NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out The view of a time-lapse camera here (green device) also shows two ablation stakes in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/1174622c-3509-4e6a-80ae-2bd464cc7519/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+9.56.58%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/97dc349a-5f6e-4cee-ad63-8d3a543d6768/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+9.57.06%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out For wind protection during materials application, PVC pipes were assembled into two rectangular frames, which were then connected with vertical pipe sections, forming a boxlike structure 1.5 x 1.5 meters. After application within this box, the structure was then moved and the process repeated—for WGG application over a 9 x 9 meter area, and then for the HGM application over a 4 x 2.25 meter area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/ff15e5ab-af71-425f-8544-f78d39168b45/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+9.59.32%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/d9ae54b9-0a5f-48ba-83a6-f2151dd28c7f/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+9.59.45%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/44bacdf3-bfb1-4c0a-80ce-4103bdf316b5/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+10.01.20%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Because the application of reflective materials needs to be effective on sloped ice surfaces a record was made of each point’s elevation as well as its coordinates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/eb955027-01ea-4fc7-b4f0-d1d06db010e4/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+10.01.26%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Taking a GPS reading. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/5fd98afb-e53c-489d-a3a4-3eb8fff6587a/10.jpg NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out The flow of water increased over the course of the day, as areas initially frozen in the morning were melting… a lot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/dcb3acce-91f2-4bd6-a070-1b472579b66b/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+10.03.52%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out An ice axe was used to chip ice for ice samples and to clear ice for collecting soil and meltwater samples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/1cda25c1-1a3d-4ce1-ac36-54d8dddf5f08/Screenshot+2024-10-31+at+10.04.00%E2%80%AFPM.png NEWS - Field Testing Started at Langjökull Glacier in Iceland - Make it stand out Soil/rock dust, accumulated at the surface over many years as the ice melts away from it. Chipping at the surface reveals how thin it is in this location. Even a thin layer of darkness can draw heat from the sun. We aim to find out how well a thin layer of brightness can deflect it. https://www.brighticeinitiative.org/news/bioneers monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/e8b6c66e-299c-44ac-88b3-2495dbea6c30/12.jpg NEWS - Dr. Leslie Field to Lead Workshop at the Bioneers Conference - Make it stand out For details and online registration, visit https://ecologistics.org/ccb-conference-2023/ https://www.brighticeinitiative.org/news/new-yorker monthly 0.5 2025-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6227ad68eba82320b51e4be3/1730436154812-NI0GIRFJ3BCA6FR9G852/2.jpg NEWS - New Yorker Magazine Dives into the Work of Dr. Field and Others - Make it stand out Included in the New Yorker article is our aerial view of ice treated with the reflective hollow glass microspheres (left) and not treated (right). From research-scale testing on a contained Minnesota pond. 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