By Ximena Aguilar, Juan Pardo, Emmanuel Brempong and Merissa Naidoo | “No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?” In the words of the pioneer astronomer and feminist- Maria Mitchell, simply being a woman is enough. From the shore to the depths of … [Read more...]
By Charles Brunette (McGill University) | 81N, 145E. It has now been two weeks since the expedition PS115/2 started. What have the ArcTrain students been doing so far? Apart from just being excited about being in the middle of the Arctic Ocean on the icebreaker Polarstern and taking loads of … [Read more...]
By the students from the Floating Summer School | It is half past twelve on Saturday 31st of October 2015 and we are writing to you from the Red Saloon aboard the RV Polarstern. Just two days ago, we left Bremerhaven, Germany, and we are in the middle of the English Channel. Out of a total of … [Read more...]
At the moment we are on our way to Tromsø, where our Arctic adventure finally ends. Here, we would like to give you the opportunity to get an insight in the life on board RV Polarstern as an ArcTrain student. 07:00... Alarm rings. Press the snooze button. Get up ten minutes later. Take a shower - … [Read more...]
By Annegret Krandick, Kerstin Kretschmer, Laura Gillard, Tilia Breckenfelder ArcTrain, an international research group, allows the opportunity for students to study the processes that affect our climate in the past, present and future scenarios with a focus on the North Atlantic Ocean and the … [Read more...]
