ICELAND – Team Iceland has arrived! We have been joined by our collaborators from Dickinson College and now number 9 strong. The Dickinson crew arrived early on Friday morning, so we spent much of the day recovering from our overseas travel and preparing for fieldwork. In addition to obtaining vehicles and food, we met our Icelandic collaborator, Steinunn Hauksdóttir, at the Iceland Geosurvey (ISOR) to discuss logistics. (Steinunn also showed us their latest geological map of the northern volcanic zone. We promptly offered to map the rest of Iceland for them in exchange for bread and Skyr).
When the group awoke from their jet-lagged slumber, they were hungry for food and geology. So, we thought we’d try a twist on the introduction to the field area: Pizza on the Pillows. In a spur of the moment decision, we thought it might be fun to have an informal dinner at the quarries where we’ll be studying the formation of subglacial pillow lavas. We picked up pizzas and headed to the field.
Unfortunately, when we arrived at the field site, the weather was perfectly Icelandic. Although you can’t see it, the wind and rain would have made our pizzas soggy. We got the cliff notes version of the overview instead.
We are creative bunch, though, and were still able to have a different kind of Pizza on the Pillows back at the hostel.
Team Iceland and their “Pizza on the Pillows” in the dry hostel dining room. Pictured from left to right: Michael (’16, Wooster); Aleks (’14, Dickinson); Ellie (’14, Dickinson); Liz (’16, Dickinson); Dr. Ben Edwards; Alex (’14, Wooster); Adam (’16, Wooster); Jim Ciarrocca (GIS, Dickinson).
Nice to see familiar faces in such an exotic place. Good luck Team Iceland.