By Henrik Christiansen | Scientists are very busy people (which is also why they rarely write blog entries on time). To be honest most of them could serve as textbook examples of ‘a workaholic’. One may roam the ship at any impossible (night) time and will stumble across sleepy creatures that ...[Read more]
Anti-freeze blood
By Hanna Scheuffele & Henrik Christiansen | By the 10th of January the 51 scientists of cruise PS 96 are celebrating half time. Exactly five weeks after departure one of the main goals of the cruise appears within reach: a depot on Ronne ice shelf – so far south that we can only ...[Read more]
Buoys on ice
By Leonard Rossmann | On the 27th of December it was time to say good-bye again. Since we left the Neumayer III station, we had four extra scientists on board. Their main goal was the Drescher inlet. There they want to spend the next 5 weeks and run a field campaign until we pick them up ...[Read more]