Segeln durch die Arktis und den Antarktischen Ozean
By Katy Hoffmann and Josephine Rapp For roughly five days now we have been sailing through Arctic waters aboard RV Polarstern, our home for the coming weeks. It is the second time that both of us have been here to collect samples for our PhD projects. Over the next three weeks we will conduct ...[Read more]
At the moment we are on our way to Tromsø, where our Arctic adventure finally ends. Here, we would like to give you the opportunity to get an insight in the life on board RV Polarstern as an ArcTrain student. 07:00... Alarm rings. Press the snooze button. Get up ten minutes later. Take a shower - ...[Read more]
By Anastasia Zhuravleva Is it surprising that our modern society is highly affected by climatic instabilities and rapid environmental shifts? Apparently, not! Meanwhile, dramatic changes have been observed in the Arctic during the past few thousand years, which are expressed as temperature ...[Read more]
By Raul Scarlat I know what a CTD is, I just had trouble remembering what the acronym stands for. Apparently it's "Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth" as Kerstin explains it to me. Kerstin is one of my ArcTrain colleagues. Matter of fact she had participated in CTD sampling the day before and ...[Read more]
By Annegret Krandick, Kerstin Kretschmer, Laura Gillard, Tilia Breckenfelder ArcTrain, an international research group, allows the opportunity for students to study the processes that affect our climate in the past, present and future scenarios with a focus on the North Atlantic Ocean and the ...[Read more]
