Expedition 2023

Ojos del Salado, Puna de Atacama

  • download of data loggers (4200-6893 m asl)
  • instrument change as required
  • meltwater lake, stream-, and valley analyses (5000-6000 m asl)
  • morainic material sampling for dating the last glacier advance (5200-5300 m asl)
  • sediment sampling for microbilological analyses from the ground temperature monitoring sites (4550-5830 m asl)
  • traces of tourism: hormones in the sediment: near surface regolith sampling for analyses (4350, 5260, 5830 m asl)
  • the sourches oh high mountain surface water: meltwater sampling (from streams) for geochemical analyses (5200 and 5800 m asl)
  • geophysical survey: ice-content investigation of the monitoring sites (4200-5830 m asl)

Permachile in numbers

Number of data
Days
+1.7°C
Temperature change