{"id":210,"date":"2015-08-12T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geotraces2015\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-08-12T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T14:29:00","slug":"day31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/geotraces2015\/2015\/08\/12\/day31\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 31: Out of darkness, out of time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coordinates: 74.27 N 80.35 W<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Today's<\/a>

Today’s location – near Devon Island.<\/p><\/div>\n

Time is a construct, and there isn\u2019t enough of it. We\u2019re floating off the shore of Devon Island, working through our first Archipelago Station. We\u2019re entirely out of night-time, so it\u2019s impossible to tell just by looking at the ocean what time it is. The sky gets a bit darker and a bit lighter at points, but there is no nighttime, and even if there was, it wouldn\u2019t at all correlate with most people\u2019s bedtimes. Everyone is as usual running on their own schedule, but the schedules are getting more and more frenetic – because of the jaunt to Hudson Bay, we have very little time to do the things we want to do. There are several different times on board. The ship is still on Quebec time, though I believe we\u2019re technically out of that time zone, but more interesting to everyone is where we are on the schedule of science events, but that\u2019s a pretty fluid construct as well, because I believe we are now on what our amazing coordinator Kristina calls \u201cPlan B, version 5\u201d. Furthermore, the GPS and several of the ship\u2019s system are on Greenwich time, also known as UTC – universal time. Since UTC is too long an acronym, the sailors call it Zulu and write it in their logbooks as Z, to differentiate it from Lima, or local time, written L. (My robot also thinks it\u2019s in Greenwich, but several of the other instruments think they\u2019re in Quebec). Bedtime-or, as Kristina calls it, for reasons I don\u2019t entirely know, Pumpkin Time- is the most elusive time of all, as several of us have started existing in an haze of intermittent naps and wakefulness.<\/p>\n

\"Pascal<\/a>

Pascal soldering.<\/p><\/div>\n

Meanwhile, even through this haze, the world around us is staggeringly beautiful. The glacier coming off the island mountains into the sea is sharp and stark and clear, the water is a deep blue, and the cloud form striking patterns in the endless horizon. During the night, around 3 in the morning, we found a copepod on one of the filters that when prodded turned an electric blue – bioluminescence never gets old. It\u2019s a strange and fascinating place to be, here in the endless light, seventy of us on a hundred meter ship with no one else for leagues, miles, kilometres around.<\/p>\n

\"Devon<\/a>

Devon Island glaciers.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The view from the deck.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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