A relaxed sunday at Summit

Most of the people here, doing re-construction of the buildings and other logistical work, and the cooks are off today; they hang around, go skiing (cross country, not so much slope here). Food today is self service; all the leftovers of last week can be tried (again, good food). Today, we actually had to go to the flux site to do again the daily maintenance on the instruments and made some changes to start new experiments. By the way, the reason that we do these measurements; We want to measure some full year of the exchange of reactive gases such as ozone, oxidized nitrogen and organic nitrogen between the atmosphere and the snow-ice sheet. So, they are already running now for one year where we as team members change shifts to secure the measurements being done for a full year. Me being here in June for about 3 weeks gave me the easy shift; today it is sunny and minus 10C, hardly any wind which actually makes it tempting to walk around in a t-shirt. By the way, it is fun to notice here at about 72N that at this solstice day the sun all rotates all around you. I realized this laying down in the tent and making some nice picture of the camp yesterday night around 22.30, Laurens