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No days are alike
“The sky knows when it's time to snow. Don't need to teach a seed to grow. It's just another ordinary miracle today.” - Sarah Maclaughlan – What is a typical day at Bamsebu? We often get asked that. There are things we do every single day like getting a fire...
The countdown is on
“I have no special talents, I am merely passionately curious” -Albert Einstein Its April and its Citizen Science Month, so what does that mean? For us up here in the land of ice and snow and Polar Bears it means being a keen observer to change as we record what...
From climate despair to climate optimism
Solstice- moving towards the light to shine the light! We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. — TS Eliot Inspiration and guest expert We are borrowing...
Climate technology and a beautiful day
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead. As we celebrate Community this month- we celebrate the immense power people possess when they band together with...
The light is back, but there is still no sea ice
“Borders, I have never seen one. But I hear they exist in the minds of some people” – Thor Heyerdahl - Life here can be thought of as chaos. It is surreal, dark, cold, expansive, harsh, barren, peaceful, magical and ever-changing. It is full of random polar...
OPERATION ETTRA
“The ancestor of every action is a thought” --- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s a scene in almost every western movie. Cowboys huddled around the crackling fire at night, whiskey in one hand and smokes in another. Laughter, stories, a roast- catch of the day, sounds...
4 Polar Bear visits and a Polar Bear poop
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” - Einstein Pancake Ice Slowly, the pancake ice is starting to form in the fjord. Our shoreline delineated by a thick band of frozen...
Polar bear visits, hurricane, isolation and mental health
“Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already accomplished and what one still ought to accomplish, the gap between what one is and what one should become. What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather a...
Ettra is coming home!
“Anything more wonderful than the polar night does not exist. It is a dream-like sight. It is a light poem of all the finest and most delicate tones of the soul.” Fridjof Nansen NEW BAMSEBU BLOG Advent and a time of waiting When we were children, this time before...
Two Polar Bears & two Polar Girls
“To seek solitude during the dark part of the year in Svalbard isn’t just about bidding farewell to civilization for several months. It’s first and foremost about daring to meet yourself. Only the bravest among us dare to do that” -- Arne O. Holm Its December and a...
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