Puffins are a common sight in Heimaey this time of year–nesting season. The baby puffins can be confused by the city lights and fly into town instead of to the ocean. Children can be seen collec...Read More
The scientific team on Heimaey to a trip out to the south part of Vestmannaeyjar. At this location, there are similar deposits to those found on Surtsey. Photograph by Cédric Hamelin....Read More
Aluminum casing is used to house the sub-surface observatory. The casing has holes drilled into it at five different depths to allow hydrothermal fluids to interact with samples located at those depth...Read More
Due to varying lengths of the aluminum casing for the observatory, the sample chambers had to be changed from their original placement. Two members of the science team work to adjust these depths and ...Read More
Scientists are using two types of samples to better study hydrothermal fluid and chemistry interactions on Surtsey. One sample is a volcanic glass with the same composition as Surtsey. The other is ol...Read More
The scientific drilling team on Heimaey moved from the Scout’s House to the Scout’s lodge two days ago. Though further out, the Scout’s lodge is better fitted for a smaller group and...Read More
Once washed and scanned, each section of core is examined and described. The majority of core found on Surtsey is lapilli tuff. Photographs by Cédric Hamelin....Read More
Drillers Steve Cole, Justin Blouin, AJ Vecchiarelli, Beau Marshall, and Matt Lyon hold the last core of the SUSTAIN drilling operation. At 10:30 am this morning, drilling on Surtsey was completed! ...Read More
Last night we achieved our first BIG success! We drilled through the well-cemented tuff Surtsey’s hydrothermal system, and into the deeper deposits of the volcano below 160 m depth. We had nearl...Read More
A short video of a helicopter loop around the east crater on Surtsey. Video was taken on the return trip from Heimaey, where used material from Surtsey was offloaded. August 9th, 2017....Read More