Sun, Moon And Northern Lights
In a few days the polar night is starting. To be precise, on October 24th, with the end of daylight saving. Then, for ...
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September in Ny-Ålesund
The summer has come to an end and the winter is slowly approaching. At night, the temperatures are falling below 0°C for most of ...
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A week in the Permafrost
Sarah Chadburn is a Post-Doc at the University of Exeter. She is a computer modeller and works on modelling permafrost. She had the opportunity ...
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Students in the Arctic
For the past eight days a student group from the University of Bremen and the University of Kiel has been visiting Ny-Ålesund and the ...
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Animals and Plants in and around Ny-Ålesund
The summer is almost over. Like on the mainland we can see that by the leaves turning from green to yellow. We do not ...
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Monitoring Arctic Phytoplankton in the Kongsfjord
Willem van de Poll and Gemma Kulk are two scientists from the Department of Ocean Ecosystems of the University of Groningen. This year they ...
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The stratosphere and the water – Launch of the CFH-Sonde
As you may already know, at AWIPEV we launch daily a radio-sonde. Under perfect conditions the radio-sonde reaches an altitude of 35km and maybe ...
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The wind in our hair…
The last two weeks were more or less our final preparations for Ny-Ålesund in Germany and France, respectively. All of us René, Thomas and ...
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Let’s continue
And we continue with the preparations for Ny-Ålesund. After René and I had returned from Longyearbyen we took our first trip to Bremerhaven. In ...