Finally – after an uncounted number of phonecalls, enquiries and discissions, I have fetched the cooler with the snow samples from Barrow, AK at 8 pm from the UPS facility in Lachine, after less than 40 hours in transit. In the afternoon there were a few hectic, but successful phonecalls on order to get it released from Canadian customs in time – although I would still like to contest the $40.- GST that I had to pay (for snow?).
The reward of this effort were snow samples that were still frozen! The cooler insulated the stuff well and additional snow for insulation provided even more cooling capacity. The arrival also means that my sampling campaign is over for this season – measurements and data analysis lie ahead from now on.
