As we measure winter mass balances for the glaciers that are monitored by our institute my mind turns to planning summer fieldwork on Suldenferner in the Italian Alps. Here is a little map detailing what I’ve done so far:The outline shows Suldenferner as it was in 2005, overlain on the 2011 orthophoto from the Autonomous Province of Bozen. The yellow triangle is the automatic weather station (installed 30/09/2014), the red circles are vertical temperature profiles through the debris near the weather station (installed 25/09/2015), the green dots are measurements of surface temperature (09/2013 – 09/2014) and the orange circles are points at which debris thickness has been manually measured by excavation (09/2014).

Thanks to Christoph Klug and Rainer Prinz, who just changed my life by showing me how to make maps with ArcGIS.