ArcTrain Students: Watch Keepers
By Charles Brunette (McGill University) | 81N, 145E. It has now been two weeks since the expedition PS115/2 started. What have the ArcTrain students ...
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Being prepared
By Anouk Vlug | It is 4 days ago that I boarded the RV Polarstern. The sea is currently calm, which gave me the courage ...
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Through a wall of fog
By Maren Richter | We are almost at the end of our cruise and after almost three weeks on board I have still not ...
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Iceberg? Iceberg! Iceberg!? Iceberg!!!! Iceberg…
By Maren Richter | By now almost half of my stay on Polarstern is over. Polarstern left Bremerhaven at 9am on the 10th of ...
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Swoosh
By Andreas Muenchow, University of Delaware | Peter and I could hear the swoosh of our ocean sensors breaching the surface like a whale ...
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Excursion into the mountains
By Susanne Lunz and Christoph Knöfel | Sometimes one has to move quickly. We got the green light for our first flight after the daily ...
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Earthquakes on the seafloor
By Michaela Meier | Everyone knows that I get sea sick, and I hate sea sickness. So, why am I here and what am ...
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Stormy Transit from Norway to Greenland
Andreas Muenchow, University of Delaware, USA | A storm closed the deck of R/V Polarstern on our first day at sea. Within hours of ...
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All aboard! The RV Polarstern has set sail for North-East Greenland
By Richard Jones, Durham University | Huddled at the waterfront of Tromso, Arctic Norway, I joined a large group of fellow scientists for my first ...
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Coming back
By Rafael Lazo Perez | The glaciers of Spitzbergen say goodbye to us while we departure slowly from this magnificent archipelago. The waves splash ...