…best describes the past few weeks here at the Neumayer Station! I know there’s actually no such word as “nature-tacular”; nevertheless, I’m sure you know what I mean by it, and in my opinion, it describes the past month using a single, vivid adjective. That’s why I chose it for the title… In ...[Read more]
Dear AtkaXpress fans, Since 31 July 2020, we – the 41st overwintering team – have been on duty for the AWI and the Laeisz Shipping Group. Peter, our physician / station leader, and Theresa, our IT and radio operator, have already shared quite a bit of information here.To give you a brief ...[Read more]
The Polar Night began on 20 May. At first you tend to think that in the Polar Night everything is always dark. And of course, not much light comes from outside; inside, the lights are always turned on. But still, it isn’t completely dark. Even in the middle of winter, at midday there is still ...[Read more]
Those are the temperatures we’ve had here for the past few days, and to be perfectly accurate I should add a minus before that number and be sure to mention the Earth’s shadow, because we’re now in a 2-month phase where we’ll constantly be on the dark side of our planet! While we read newspaper ...[Read more]
PALAOA is a hydro-acoustic observatory, or in other words: a specially designed underwater microphone, called a hydrophone, ‘listens’ below the ice shelf and records the calls of seals and whales. The long-term observatory belongs to the Ocean Acoustics Group at the Alfred Wegener Institute in ...[Read more]
As promised, in today’s blog entry I’d like to talk about our exciting and varied preparation phase together in more detail: The deadline for online applications for overwinterers (ÜWIs) at the Neumayer Station is usually the end of February each year, and I received my – still tentative – ...[Read more]
In the last four weeks I have frequently listened to Ella Fitzgerald’s velvety alto voice singing “Summertime”, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the trumpet: often in the evenings, gazing at palm-lined beaches (just on a poster, of course) while on the treadmill, I can almost feel the shimmering ...[Read more]
Hallo everyone! This is Theresa, the new voice on the radio for the Neumayer Station III. During our voyage to the Neumayer Station III on board the Polarstern, I went on a ‘recon’ of the ship with my penguin Rico. He was kind enough to pose for a few photos along the way, and today he’ll give ...[Read more]
On behalf of the 41st “overwintering team”, I’d like to welcome all our blog readers, and open this new chapter of the blog by briefly introducing myself: Peter Jonczyk, surgeon, trauma surgeon and orthopaedic surgeon, born almost 58 years ago in Hesse, for the past few years I’ve been a ...[Read more]
Hello everyone, Now the time has come … the last blog entry for the 40th overwintering team at Neumayer Station III. Since 19 January, our overwintering has officially been over. On that day, the icebreaker Polarstern dropped anchor at the ice edge in Atka Bay, raising the total population from ...[Read more]
