{"id":2891,"date":"2021-06-30T03:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fieldscience.cs.earlham.edu\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2021-06-30T03:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T08:42:11","slug":"highlights-of-an-amazing-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fieldscience.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2021\/06\/highlights-of-an-amazing-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of an amazing trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today is the last day most of us are in Iceland for this trip. As I started this post, we were completing a tour of the Golden Circle<\/a> after a few days in beautiful Reyjkavik. Now we are preparing for departure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our view of the volcano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to post some of the highlights of our trip. There’s a rough order to them, but don’t take the numbering too seriously – it’s been a great experience all-around. Without further ado:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The volcano is truly incredible. It was not uncommon for people to spontaneously shout “Wow!” and “Oh my god!” as the lava burst up from the ground.<\/li>
  2. We woke up every day for a few weeks with a view of a fjord.<\/li>
  3. We did a glacier hike on S\u00f3lheimaj\u00f6kull, with two awesome guides.<\/li>
  4. This was a historically successful round of data collection, both on the drone side and on the biology side. We’ll write and share a lot more about this in the next few months.<\/li>
  5. We shared space with the group of phenomenal students from the University of Glasgow. We also collaborated with them on multiple occasions, learning a lot about different ways to study wildlife and local sites.<\/li>
  6. THE FOOD – you probably don’t associate Iceland with food culture (I certainly didn’t), but our meals were delicious.<\/li>
  7. The architecture and decorations are so distinctly Icelandic.<\/li>
  8. Amazing photography and video – in high quality and high quantity.<\/span><\/li>
  9. Walking along the boundary between the North American and European plates.<\/span><\/li>
  10. Guided tour from our Skalanes hosts – who incidentally are awesome people – of a stretch of eastern Iceland.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Getting the rundown about glaciers at Solo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Some of my personal honorable mentions include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n