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  • On duty!

    By Christophe Le Gall |   Thursday, 16 June. At 13:15, the meteorology technician has to do one of her daily task: preparing and ...

  • Towards the Arctic

    Having finished a successful time in the shipyard in Bremerhaven, Polarstern set sails towards the Arctic this week. The blogger Christophe Le Gall accompanies the ...

  • Hydroacoustics

    By Thomas Ronge | As mentioned before, we use sediment cores from the ocean floor for our climate reconstructions as well as for our ...

  • Elephant Island

    By Thomas Ronge | On August 8th 1914 the British barquetine Endurance left the port of Plymouth. The British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and ...

  • Night shift

    By Thomas Ronge | Recently, we arrived in our working area at the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. Here we want to ...

  • Increasing pressure

    By Thomas Ronge | Pressure can be an interesting thing. Deep inside the Earth’s interior, pressure transforms ordinary carbon into glittering diamonds (45-60 kilobar). ...