40 years in service and not a bit tired: The research icebreaker “Polarstern” is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary in the service of German and international polar research in South Georgia as part of a research cruise. The blue-and-white ship...
Friederike Krüger is a teacher in Hannover and was one of only two teachers who could participate in the first leg of the MOSAiC expedition on board the “Akademik Fedorov”. Image: Mario Hoppmann “That’s quite complicated,” is a response I...
During the MOSAiC expedition, rotating international teams from aboard the German research icebreaker “Polarstern” explored practically all parameters of the atmosphere, ocean, and ice and snow from October 2019 to September 2020. Photo: Matthias Jaggi...
On 26 September 2019, Marcel Nicolaus from the Alfred Wegener Institute deployed the first buoy of the “Distributed Network” of the MOSAiC expedition on an ice floe. She drifted on the floe and at sea for over two years. Along the way, she used GPS to get...
Sea ice formation in the Arctic Ocean not only depends on air temperatures, but is also strongly influenced by incoming water masses from the North Atlantic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown in two new studies. Photo: Julia Hager The...