UiT SIMB3 2026C

DeployedCentral ArcticSep 5, 2026 → present

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Deployed 5 Sept 2026 by helicopter from the Swedish icebreaker Oden (Canada-Sweden Arctic Ocean 2026). Installed by Leif Eriksson (Chalmers), Felix St. Denis (McGill University, Canada), Moa Sjöberg (Uppsala University, Sweden), Chimira Andres (University of Victoria, Canada), Abdulkarim Hammami (McGill University, Canada), Roger Skalman (Swedish Polar Research Secretariat) and Mikael Friberg (Swedish Polar Research Secretariat) for Jack Landy (UiT). The larger team here allowed additional snow and ice measurements at the deployment site. A mainly flat floe with some ridges. Snow was measured before drilling; the hole flooded during installation and the slush was trampled, so early snow readings under the top sounder may not be representative until new snow accumulates. The team also ran GEM-2 and magnaprobe surveys, took one ice core and dug one snow pit next to the SIMB3, and tested a helicopter-mounted lidar. An OpenMetBuoy (ODN ArctSum 02, MET Norway) was installed the same day a few hundred metres away on the same floe.

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