Das Arktis-Blog des AWI
Two Homo sapiens in red smocks wading in shallow freshwater lakes with a bucket and flask, filtering hundreds of litres of water. That was the main activity on Christophe and Annabel’s sampling hike two weeks ago and I had the honour to join them. Hiking up a plateau next to town, we first landed in ...[Read more]
Life up here in Ny-Ålesund is simple, comfortable and rich. Although there is not a lot in terms of consumption and culture, the social contacts and the impressive nature are all over the place. Time goes by fast, scientists and other visitors come and go continuously. It is a repeating cycle of ...[Read more]
Hello everybody, this is the new AWIPEV team speaking! We will share with you via this medium some of our experiences considering our job mission in Ny-Ålesund. With “we” I mean Gregory (stationleader), Yohann (logistics engineer) and me, Fieke (observatory engineer). At the moment we are in our ...[Read more]
Preparing AWIPEV station for the winter requires to make all the boats ready for the cold season, with temperatures going as low as -25°C. To do so, the boats are taken on the shore, batteries are removed, engines are checked and oiled, the cockpit is folded. The boat is then ready to be put in a ...[Read more]
We send our best wishes for this new year 2020 ! ...[Read more]
Nothing new around here for a long time... We should definitely change that, what do you think ? We got the chance to witness the first rocket launch of Andoya Space Center (ASC) and NASA this morning. A second one is planned for the next days ! You can also see the Lidar laser beam from the ...[Read more]
A new year has come and it seems like winter is finally there too. The snow cover has gotten better since a while already, but latley the temperatures have dropped quite a bit as well. But above all, we had wind. A lot of wind. Wind with snow and wind without snow. But even then, the snow on the ...[Read more]
The AWIPEV arctic station is situated at 79 degrees latitude. This is even 8.4 degrees closer to the pole than the Neumayer station in Antarctica. Concerning climate this place is much more hospital but polar day and polar night last longer. Ny-Ålesund lies in the North of the Zeppelin mountain ...[Read more]
At our station we have several permanent Observatories, one of them is the UnderWaterObservatory (UWO) belonging to the the Alfred-Wegener-Instiut, Helmholtz Centre for Polar- and Marine Research. The system consists of two parts: One is the so called ‘Underwater Node’ which is installed at the ...[Read more]
A lot of scientists in town are here to study Wildlife. Among them, some French ornithologists from the CEBC (Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé – La Rochelle). They are highly interested by Kittiwakes living some kilometers away from Ny-Alesund. I spent one day in the field with them and ...[Read more]
