By Jasmin Heiden, Florian Koch et al. On March 2nd it was our (the biologists) big sampling day. We sampled seawater from 25 m depth at a site in the Drake Passage. During this cruise we will sample three stations where we pump water on board in order to conduct incubation experiments with the in ...[Read more]
The Biologists-Blog: What we do
Von Jasmin Heiden, Florian Koch et al. We are 12 biologists and chemists on board R.V. Polarstern from several research institutes (Alfred Wegener Institute, Universities of Geneva, Bremen and Oldenburg and the ETH Zürich) that constitute the working group ProIron. Our mission on board is to ...[Read more]
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 Arctic sea-ice edge behind. On our way south, we passed an area inhabited by quite a few seals, and some of us were lucky enough to see whales. On Tuesday we had our last ...[Read more]