Papay Probe

This project built on a previous residency that I undertook with the Icelandic Glaciological Society in 2015. The group consists of a mix of scientists and volunteers. Each year they make a trip onto a glacier and take core samples at different parts of the glacier to document the changes over time. Papay Probe looked at the ‘Papay-Iceland seesaw effect’of glaciers melting and sea levels rising, one effect metaphorically causing the other. Papay- a stoney, sandy island expanding and contracting – Mýrdalsjökull glacier - an icy, rocky island expanding and contracting. We islanders collectively created and made an island Papay Probe (similar in concept to a space probe), which was deployed with special island-made experimental tools on Mýrdalsjökull in Iceland to ‘health check’ the glacier coming from a Papay island perspective. 

Funded by British Science Association and supported Papay Development Trust