I'm writing this blog from PetermannGlacier in northwest Greenland, where a cold katabatic wind is blowing off the ice onto the deck of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
Jason Box, a scientist with Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, has also been monitoring the PetermannGlacier and in September 2011 he told OurAmazingPlanet that a growing crack likely would sever the glacier once warmer weather took hold during the summer months.