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  • Auroras!

    By Stefan Hendricks and Mario Hoppmann | It. Does. Not. Stop. Polarstern continuously moves and shakes in the swell of the Barents Sea. Usually a cause ...

  • Hungry for Particles

    By Ole Valk | The in-situ-pumps (ISP) are a very important scientific instrument on this expedition for the GEOTRACES-Team. These pumps are deployed on ...

  • The Dirty ice blog

    By Sandra Gdaniec | A couple of days ago we found something we have been waiting for and hoping to find during this expedition, ...

  • Besides work

    By Christiane Uhlig | After more than four weeks on TransArc II and getting used to the long and sometimes spontaneous working days, everybody on ...

  • Ice is nice

    By Erika Allhusen, Robert Ricker, Hazel Hartman-Jenkins, Andreas Krell, Gerhard Diekmann, Ellen Damm | As Miss Smilla searched snow and ice for clues to ...

  • Surprises

    By Franz Schroeter | We are currently in the “marginal ice zone”: the zone right in front of the thick multi-year-ice. Since we reached ...