My Antarctic commute …
Hello, everyone! I’m Linda, the atmospheric chemist for the 41st overwintering at the Neumayer Station III. Just as a few of my fellow overwinterers ...
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You only get out what you put in…
…is a rough translation of a saying favoured by the ancient Romans, meaning that hard work pays off. And that especially applies to life ...
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In the Night and Ice
… is a rough translation of the title of the exciting travel journal Fridtjof Nansen published on his Arctic expedition from 1893 to 1896. ...
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Life at the Ends of the Earth from the Cook’s Perspective – Part II
Dear AtkaXpress fans, Since 31 July 2020, we – the 41st overwintering team – have been on duty for the AWI and the Laeisz ...
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Nature-tacular!
…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 ...
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Life at the Ends of the Earth from the Cook’s Perspective
Dear AtkaXpress fans, Since 31 July 2020, we – the 41st overwintering team – have been on duty for the AWI and the Laeisz ...
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The Colours of the Polar Night
The Polar Night began on 20 May. At first you tend to think that in the Polar Night everything is always dark. And of ...
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Nearly 45° in the shade …
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 ...
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PALAOA – All the things you can hear underwater
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 ...
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The final Antarctic countdown
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 ...