In the morning the alarm goes off. Breakfast is served from 7.30 to 8.30 am. Only half awake, I stumble into the breakfast hall, where you always receive a warm welcome from the friendly stewardesses. The breakfast menu offers everything the heart desires: from pancakes to scrambled eggs, to freshly ...[Read more]
How we’re keeping our footprint in the Arctic to a minimum By Marcel Nicolaus Our standards concerning the precision of our measurements and the overall scale of observations of the atmosphere, ice and ocean are naturally quite different from those 125 years ago, when Nansen first set out to ...[Read more]
From on board, 10 October 2019, by Stefan Hendricks for the ICE and Remote Sensing Teams | How we found the right floe for the ice drift through the Arctic Ocean First of all, the floe had to reflect the typical conditions in our region; this aspect is indispensable to arriving at ...[Read more]
On board ship, 22 September 2019, by Marcel Nicolaus | On departure day it once again became clear to many of us just how long the planning and preparation phase for MOSAiC had been. Since the first meeting in 2011, the ideas and plans gradually became more and more concrete and detailed, and the ...[Read more]
By Magda Cardozo | The Fram Strait the major gateway between the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Marginal Ice Zone. This means that during summer, Arctic sea ice travels southwards through the Strait. This makes the Fram Strait a rather unique area. However, our ...[Read more]
By Magda Cardozo, PhD student of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen | In the open ocean, microbes are the most active and abundant organism, and control processes that are crucial for sustaining life on earth. We can study microorganisms from samples taken from a wide range ...[Read more]
By Carla and Rebekka | On Saturday, after a long stay at the dockyard, the Research Vessel Polarstern set out on its next expedition to the Arctic. We are students, have joined the crew for the first time and are very excited. During boarding our friends and family can accompany us and make ...[Read more]
By Ximena Aguilar, Juan Pardo, Emmanuel Brempong and Merissa Naidoo | “No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?” In the words of the pioneer astronomer and feminist- Maria Mitchell, simply being a woman is enough. From the shore to the depths of ...[Read more]
By Mara Gomes, MARE FCiencias, University of Lisbon (Portugal) | Marine phytoplankton, the floating microalgae of our oceans, plays an important role in the Earth system. On one hand they are the main primary producers in our oceans and on the other hand critically influencing the biogeochemical ...[Read more]
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]
