Expedition 2016

Ojos del Salado, Puna de Atacama

• download of the data loggers (4200-6893 m asl)
• instrument change as required
• geoelectric measurements to determine the presence of subsurface ice (at 4200, 4550, 5200 and 5800 m asl)
• microbiological sampling between 3800 and 6500 m asl from wet environments (lakes, streams)
• installation and operation of a mobile micrometeorological station at 5800 m asl
• sediment collection from the aeolian sediment traps
• geomorphological analysis of megaripple-system - the role of frozen snow-cover
• moraine-sampling to determine the age of the last glacier presence
• sediment and water samples and fumarola temperature measurements at 6500 m asl
• DataHunters: popular science fims series