Catching up on work

When we arrived the next morning to the island of Nordauslandet, the weather was quite cold, and it had apparently snowed during the night.


A small party went ashore to investigate a seabird rookery, where lots of birds nest and fertilize the surrounding land. Meanwhile, I took advantage of the break in geological action (and being driven below decks by the cold wind) to get some work done. We had been collecting quite a few samples the last few days, and needed to run them in CheMin and add the results to the expedition database. Here's me drilling a rock to get a powdered sample to analyze:
The stylish purple gloves are to protect the sample from organic material from my hands.