An Arctic deep sea volcano
By Joshua Kiesel and Franz Schroeter | We have successfully finished the transit from the 30 to 60 degrees of longitude and are now ...
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Inter-calibration at the North Pole
By Ursula Schauer | On September 7, 2015 Polarstern reached the geographic North Pole. Already from some distance we recognized the outline of another ...
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Ice is nice
By Erika Allhusen, Robert Ricker, Hazel Hartman-Jenkins, Andreas Krell, Gerhard Diekmann, Ellen Damm | As Miss Smilla searched snow and ice for clues to ...
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Polarstern, the small New York City
By Núria Casacuberta Arola and Viena Puigcorbé Lacueva | It is now more than 10 days since we left Tromsø, and during this time ...
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Surprises
By Franz Schroeter | We are currently in the “marginal ice zone”: the zone right in front of the thick multi-year-ice. Since we reached ...
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Life of an Oceanographer during “TransArc II”
From Mario Hoppmann und Hendrik Hampe | As soon as the countless containers are un-stowed and the first instruments have been prepared the scientists ...
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TransArc II – Tracking Arctic change
By Justin, Stefan and Ursula | TransArc II *) – this means for us – 55 scientists and 43 crew members – for the coming ...
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After one MUC always comes another
By Katy Hoffmann and Josephine Rapp | We have now been on board for more than two weeks, and the expedition’s halfway point has already ...
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A wavy welcome to the deep Arctic Ocean
By Katy Hoffmann and Josephine Rapp For roughly five days now we have been sailing through Arctic waters aboard RV Polarstern, our home for ...
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Life on board RV Polarstern as an ArcTrain student
At the moment we are on our way to Tromsø, where our Arctic adventure finally ends. Here, we would like to give you the ...