Mass Balance Measurements at Ekström Ice Shelf
By Ole Zeising und Filip Heitmann How much snow falls each year, and how much ice melts at the ice base? These questions are ...
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Polar 6 in Dronning-Maud-Land, Antarctica
By Veit Helm This year’s winter flight campaign will take us to Dronning-Maud-Land in Antarctica. Here, around 100 flight hours with Polar6 await us ...
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Fieldwork in Antarctica: GNSS-RR
Text by Ladina Steiner: After spending two quiet weeks during the pre-Antarctic quarantine, I was looking very much forward to finally head off on ...
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Tübingen University and AWI test Rover on the ice
By Reinhard Drews, Tübingen University: A few weeks ago Peter introduced the pRES (link). Now we will introduce a project for which pRES measurements ...
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Glacier Safety Course
Text and photos by Ladina Steiner. As I am new to the world of polar expeditions, it is recommended by the AWI to participate ...
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Preparation of Freight
Text and photos by Ladina Steiner. July 2021: One month to go until the deadline for delivering the sea freight with destination to Antarctica ...
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From Source to Sink – trace metal cycles in a changing environment
A team of four scientists led by AWI headed to Svalbard in July 2020 to uncover the secrets of the biogeochemical cycle of trace ...
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Subglacial melt channel seen by TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X
Radar images of ice shelves show at some locations astonishing features – elongated structures that extend for tens to hundreds of kilometers before they ...
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What caused the ring structure? On exploration …
Blog post by Graeme Eagles and the WEGAS team The WEGAS team has been very excited over the last few days that their work, ...