Kangerlussuaq Hotels - Reviews and Rates

There isn't a whole lot to report. I mostly just want to post some pictures from earlier today. As is clear from the pictures, it is quite cloudy, so lidar operation is presently at a stand still. Weather reports are suggesting skies will clear tomorrow night. In the mean time, I have seen quite a few Red Dwarf episodes on DVD. I can't say that ...

Well, it happened again. Through a series of unexplainable events, I woke up on an airplane on the tarmac of Kangerlussuaq International Airport. The short of it is, I made it. The long of it is, the plane ride. I flew from Denver to Washington, DC, to Copenhagen, Denmark, to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. You may be saying, "Matt, I thought Denmark ...

Kellyville has been hopping the last week. With Jan, Jeff and I arriving 2 weeks ago, we increased the population from 6 to 9. Then last week, Katie (another grad student from my research group), Mary, Craig (scientists from Stanford Research Institute, SRI, which is the company that actually runs the site) and John (also an SRI employee who use...

The past several days have been without update to my travel blog, but not for lack of anything to write about. It seems we are now in full swing, and I have had little down time. Most of the time, we work and sleep, but there have been a few exceptions. On Saturday, several of us took a trip to see the ice cap. If you look at Greenland on Google...

Today was a good day. We had shipped up a pair of cross polarized frequency doubled Nd:YAG lasers earlier this spring for us to install upon our arrival in Greenland. The idea is to use them for lower altitude returns, because our high power Nd:YAG tends to saturate the detector below 20 km. We set to work early on, first just making sure the la...

So this is it. I have finally arrived at the destination of my dreams, and only at the age of 25. Here are the fascinating details of my trip so far: I connected yesterday between Denver to Albany, NY through Chicago. On my flight between Denver and Chicago, my tray-table was vibrating just right to generate a circular standing wave in my water....