Box Coring – One Muddy Playground for Scientists
By Anastasia Zhuravleva Is it surprising that our modern society is highly affected by climatic instabilities and rapid environmental shifts? Apparently, not! Meanwhile, dramatic ...
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Shaking Nights and Blue Fingers
By Raul Scarlat I know what a CTD is, I just had trouble remembering what the acronym stands for. Apparently it’s “Conductivity, Temperature, and ...
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Floating University – ArcTrain students on board RV Polarstern
By Annegret Krandick, Kerstin Kretschmer, Laura Gillard, Tilia Breckenfelder ArcTrain, an international research group, allows the opportunity for students to study the processes that ...
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Leaving the Arctic Behind – Of Polar Cod and Going Home
Only few days are left; we are approaching the end of the cruise. Last Wednesday we already entered the open ocean and left the ...
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The Sea Ice Physics Team – From basic tools to advanced technology
For many people (including members of this blog team), remembering their physics lessons at school is not a very fond memory. Physics, often coupled ...
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Fixing and trixing
Yesterday we waved goodbye to our last ice station, the eighth in the row of ice floes visited during our cruise. Working on the ...
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TRANSSIZ Expedition – Facts and Figures of the different scientific programmes
We have now started our seventh ice station and thought it is about time to summarize the amount of samples that were collected within ...
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The Invisible Majority – How single cells make Earth habitable
We are at our 6th ice station and the fog has rolled in. Standing out on the back deck, you feel almost like ...
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A special balloon – Meteorological observations on board Polarstern
The strong winds of the last couple of days complicated the work on the ship and on the ice. Not only do you constantly ...
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Approaching mid-point of the expedition: Thoughts and experiences from the science team
We are approaching the mid-point of the TRANSSIZ cruise on the Polarstern and we wanted to hear some thoughts and experiences from members of ...