By Myriam Caron | 81°N 128°E. As an ArcTrain PhD Student studying geology in the polar regions, it is with great excitement that I came on board the R/V Polarstern, with the Arctic Ocean as a destination. After several years spent studying the Arctic, what a joy to finally be able to ... [Read more]

By Charles Bruntte | 82N, 143E. We wake up to a radiant Sun and a calm sea. This is a very pleasant surprise after a few days of high waves that challenged everyone's tolerance to motion sickness. Today the wind is low and the air is not too cold. Samira and I take this opportunity to pay ... [Read more]

We have been back in Germany for 3 weeks now. It takes a while to adapt again to the daily routine here. Of course there is the jet lag.  but then it is also a big contrast between living and working in the still and vast Arctic landscapes to doing office work and managing city life. For me, ... [Read more]

By Sergei Freiman | Over the last three days, every inhabitant of the Polarstern could feel the beat of the seismic airguns that shake the entire vessel 4 times per minute. The shots sound like the heartbeat of an immense and calm animal. But how big has to be this incredible animal with such ... [Read more]

We drove a lot on this expedition! We started in Whitehorse, driving all the way up North to Inuvik on the Dempster Highway and then further on to Tuktoyaktuk at the Arctic Ocean, altogether 1500 km… and back. At our arrival in Whitehorse, we could pick up our two huge pick-up trucks, ... [Read more]

Our Postdoc Sonya Antonova is a remote sensing specialist in the ongoing project PermaSAR. She analyses optical and radar satellite images to detect changes in the land surface. Prior to our expedition, Sonya had identified several locations in the Trail Valley Creek area where vegetation ... [Read more]

In July and August, around 20 young people from all over the world conduct research in an HZB team. And they also blogged. The results are as varied as the students themselves - from dry accounts to nearly literary essays to really exciting texts which triggered curiosity ! This is how it started ... [Read more]

About the authors: The authors work at the US National Weather Service where Richard Thoman is a Climate Science and Services Manager, Becki Heim is a Marine and Sea Ice Program Manager, and Gene Petrescu is a Regional Scientist. In this article, they describe how Alaska coastal communities ... [Read more]

Authors: Lasse Rabenstein and Panagiotis Kountouris (Drift & Noise GmbH) About the Authors: Lasse Rabenstein is co-founder and managing director of the company Drift & Noise – Polar Services GmbH (DNPS). Lasse received his PhD in 2010 at the University Bremen, Germany, in collaboration ... [Read more]

PPP-SERA Open Session with the European Polar Board, The Hague, Netherlands, April 18, 2018 About the authors: Rick Thoman works as the Climate Science and Services Manager for the U.S. National Weather Service Alaska Region and is based in Fairbanks, Alaska. He works as a translator of subseasonal ... [Read more]