Solheim Glacier, Iceland
Sólheimajökull, Iceland, IL-1 Camera
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April 2008
Adam LeWinter
Adam is Extreme Ice Survey field operations manager. While camped at Greenland’s Ilulissat Glacier in May 2008, Adam, along with EIS team member Jeff Orlowski, witnessed the largest calving event ever captured on film. Adam’s degree in engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder was put to good use during the design of the first EIS time-lapse camera systems.
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| Since the beginning of the Extreme Ice Survey, we have prepared our camera systems against the forces of nature. These setups are out there in extremely harsh environments, with brutal winds, frequent rock and snow slides, blizzards, subzero temperatures, and torrential rain. However, the original engineering and configurations have held up so well that it came as a surprise when our Icelandic field assistant, Svavar Jonatansson, called us on his cell phone from a windy lava plain to tell us that this camera was destroyed by a rockfall.
This camera and its perspective are enormously important to the project, having provided us with some amazing images. So within a week of Svav’s call, I flew from Colorado to Iceland. Together, we journeyed to Solheim and mounted a new camera package on an aluminum support with some additional protective covering. Once again, EIS has full coverage of the spectacular and dynamic Sólheimajökull Glacier.
P.S. Though the housing had been completely mangled by the rocks, the Nikon camera inside was still working!
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