We have been sailing for a week now, and the unpacking is completed! The labs and working spaces have been more challenging to set up than usual with so many different groups and disciplines on board. Not unlike an orchestra composed of musicians who are excellent at their instruments but have never ...[Read more]
“At nine there is the ice-meeting and at one there is the mud-meeting…”. Apart from all the other preparations there are a lot of things that need to be planned and discussed. Different groups of people study different things and all of them need to collect their desired samples in the weeks ...[Read more]
This Tuesday May 19th, the R/V Polarstern departed Bremerhaven port with 51 scientists from 11 countries who will investigate the effects for climate change in the Arctic Ocean. The cruise is called TRANSSIZ which stands for ‘Transitions in the Seasonal Ice Zone’. Before actually taking off, ...[Read more]
