By Inge Deschepper and Daniel Gebregiorgis Yirgaw | We are almost through half of our trip from North to South and we are starting to gain a better knowledge of the different water masses that we are passing over using CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth profiler) measurements and other ... [Read more]
By Carla Espinosa and Abigal Cronin | Hola and Dia duit! Our names are Carla and Abi, and we are currently participants on the North South Atlantic Training Transect. We are on board RV Polarstern together with many other researchers, and we took the opportunity to talk to Eva Garcia Vazquez from ... [Read more]
By Walaa Thabet and Eoghan Daly | The senior scientists are telling us the first station on the cruise will be the most difficult one. But what if, the first station is the first station you have ever done so deep? We were about to sample water from different depths in the Atlantic Ocean, ... [Read more]
Written by Andrian Gajigan and Hugh O’Sullivan | We are all here!! Despite a rocky start, with students arriving from far and wide and airport security being what it is, we have made it! We feel like we are part of something special, something big that will have a major impact on all of our ... [Read more]
The effects of climate change are most alarming in the Arctic Ocean, with rapidly rising air temperatures and declining multiyear sea ice. In particular in Fram Strait, the inflow of Atlantic water into the Arctic Ocean has warmed in the last two decades, which might have contributed to the melting ... [Read more]
by Núria Casacuberta | The 18th of July was an important date: the GRIFF expedition started!!! 52 scientists from 10 different countries, together with 45 crew members, left Tromsø onboard one of the most supreme research vessels: Polarstern. We left a grey and rainy day behind us, but ... [Read more]
by Josephine Rapp | During this expedition I planned to do sea ice work for the very first time. However, due to bad weather conditions and very thick fog during the first weeks of the cruise, I first thought that it would be cancelled after all, since both the helicopter and the zodiac require ... [Read more]
By Josephine Rapp | After a delayed start due to cancelled flights, our expedition started only two days ago. We left from Longyearbyen on Svalbard and reached the first station after only half a day – so preparing and setting up labs had to be very quick. By now, first samples have been ... [Read more]
by Christophe Le Gall | In the morning, we performed the CTD-Rosette water sampling as planned, but during one short transfer, the echosounder detected a gas plume under the ship. This kind of process are known in this region, and this is an opportunity for the scientific crew to collect more ... [Read more]
by Christophe Le Gall | Who are you ? I'm a 26-years-old PhD student from Norway. working at the University of Tromsö, Norway. I have studied geophysics, and now I'm working in Trosmö since 2 years. I'm also teaching a course called "Introduction to sedimentology" at this ... [Read more]
