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  1. The tiny blooms of Diapensia laponica are a special treat for fieldwork in #Labrador. The stems are only 1-3cm tall. The little flowers look robust, but I've learned they only last a few days in the short northern summer.

    #botany #photography #Makkovik

  2. Meanwhile the community gardens continue to grow. Great to see people claiming their space with personalized signs!

    #CommunityGardens #NorthernAgriculture #Makkovik

  3. Day one of my second trip to #Makkovik #Labrador for this year. Discovered en route that the new OM-1 Mk2 that I used to make some spectacular photos in June is non-functional. Hopefully just a faulty battery, but unfixable until I return home in two weeks.

    Luckily, in trimming my field kit down I decided to keep my Nikon Z50 on hand. It doesn't have the features of the OM, but I still love shooting with it. No image stacking, but the ability to turn on has become a 'killer feature' for this trip.

    #Photography #botany

  4. Aviation weather for Makkovik airport (Canada) is “CYFT 122000Z 31020G27KT 10SM -SN SCT018 OVC024 M05/M09 A2981 RMK ST3SC5 LAST STFD OBS / NEXT 130900Z SLP104” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/cyft/en #makkovik #canada #makkovikairport #cyft #ymn #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek #airport vl

  5. Realizing that none of my friends in #Makkovik are in the Fediverse, so I'm going to have to post these to FaceBook if they're going to see them :(

  6. Local #Fishers Help Uncover #Coral Clinging to Underwater Cliffs eos.org/articles/local-fishers paper: ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/is

    "5 years ago, Capt. Joey Angnatok, an #Inuit fisher and researcher, lowered his fishing nets into the #Labrador Sea near #Makkovik. Seafloor data suggested that the ocean should be 700 meters deep. But when he let out that much net, he still had several hundred meters of slack floating on the surface, indicating the nets had hit bottom earlier than expected."

  7. Arrived in #Makkovik #Labrador

    Travel is a mess, with sea ice blocking the ferry from landing for a week, and fog cancelling flights for three days. But somehow I made it on time, and was greeted.by glorious sunshine and hardly a fly to be seen :)

  8. Back in #makkovik . Not certain, but I think black fly season might finally be over

  9. Tomorrow I'll start meeting community members to introduce myself, start sharing ideas about #inuit #botany, and see what kinds of research questions might be valuable to the people in #makkovik . It will take some time I'm sure; I'm pleased we were able to see some of the berry harvesting sites today, so I have a basic idea of how things are here. So much more to learn

  10. The landscape here is spectacular, so lucky we had clear sunny skies and mostly calm water #makkovik

  11. Arrived in the #Inuit community of #makkovik and chartered a boat out into the coastal islands #nunatsiavut

  12. Started my #Labrador adventure today, flew out from under dense fog in Goose Bay en route to #Makkovik