By Amabelle Go, Sian Seymour, Stacy Ballyram, Yoania Perez, Ahmad Mohamed | One of the core modules for this expedition is the Oceanography module. This is where we get the opportunity to gain some hands-on experience using different oceanographic instruments as well as analysing the data we ... [Read more]
My name is Lantovololona Felaniaina ….huh…for short Felana. I come from Madagascar, the land of lemurs and the land of long named people. Since my childhood, I have always wanted to be an international scientist, firstly to travel the world and secondly to represent my country as an eminent ... [Read more]
By Luciana Shigihara Lima | Hello, I’m Luciana from Brazil. Since I was a child I felt a deep connection with the ocean and already knew what I wanted to be when grown up. When I was five years old, I kept asking to my parents questions such as why waves brake at the beach or why the ocean is ... [Read more]
By Angela, Anjana, Luciana, Vincent and Felaniaina | We were on “tenderhooks” for a day and a night worrying that the Research Vessel (R/V) Polarstern might have to leave without us. We had to stay one more night in Punta Arenas (Chile), because the plane that we were supposed to take ... [Read more]
By Damien Ringeisen | (Last blogpost from PS115.2 expedition to the Arctic after Polarstern's arrival in Bremerhaven) Is there a more iconic picture than a polar bear stranded on a piece of ice to illustrate climate change? As everybody surely knows, the artic sea ice is melting away. ... [Read more]
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 go ... [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 a ... [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 a ... [Read more]
By Charles Brunette (McGill University) | 81N, 145E. It has now been two weeks since the expedition PS115/2 started. What have the ArcTrain students been doing so far? Apart from just being excited about being in the middle of the Arctic Ocean on the icebreaker Polarstern and taking loads of ... [Read more]
By Anouk Vlug | It is 4 days ago that I boarded the RV Polarstern. The sea is currently calm, which gave me the courage to start writing this blog post. I am Anouk Vlug, one of the ArcTrain PhD students that joint PS 115.2 expedition into the Arctic as a part of the ArcTrain Floating ... [Read more]
