A 60-day trip around Greenland to measure climate change

In the summer of 2019, the GreenLAnd Circumnavigation Expedition (GLACE) will make its way around the island of Greenland. The aim of the trip, which is being run by the Swiss Polar Institute, is to collect data from the ground, air and ocean in order to study the effects of global warming. A call for project submissions has been launched within the scientific community. This summer some of the Arctic's permanent ice caps began breaking up for the first time. This worrying news came just as the EPFL-based Swiss Polar Institute (SPI) began preparing for a major research expedition to Greenland. The aim of this expedition - known as the GreenLAnd Circumnavigation Expedition (GLACE) - is to gather as much data as possible about how the ice cap covering the island is melting, how this process interacts with the surrounding ocean, and how climate change is more broadly affecting the region. The expedition will run for some 60 days, from late July to the end of September 2019.