MOSAiC

This week: Leg II of the MOSAiC expedition begins! Learn what participants have been up to and how they feel being so far from home. Image credit: AWI

The German icebreaker Polarstern is moored to a piece of ice that scientists hope to drift with and study for the next year. Credit: Ravenna Koenig for NPR

In September 2019...

Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Stefan Hendricks

The MOSAiC project is 'the biggest...

Remote sensing site, AWI photo courtesy Julienne Stroeve

by Julienne Stroeve, CIRES, NSIDC, CU Boulder, University College London, University of Manitoba

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After the storm. Photo: AWI/Stefan Hendricks

A three-day storm, 40-mph winds cut power to science “cities”...

Last week, we reached the coldest temperatures at -31.2 °C. Credit: Esther Horvath/AWI

by Byron Blomquist, CIRES and NOAA

The Polarstern is still in complete darkness, but change is slowly coming. This week: What is the winter solstice? Also, how many people are on the ship at a time? Photo credit: AWI

Chunks of ice float past the hull of the Akademik Fedorov as the ship moves through the southern edge of the Arctic Ocean ice pack. Credit: Ravenna Koenig, NPR

Arctic researchers just starting out face an...

Onlookers watch from the deck of the Akademik Fedorov as scientists set up instruments on the sea ice in the Central Arctic Ocean. Credit: Daisy Dunne for Carbon Brief

The world’s largest polar research expedition...

Steve Archer from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and Byron Blomquist from the University of Colorado measure how fast carbon dioxide and methane move between the atmosphere and the ocean. Alfred-Wegener-Institut

by Byron Blomquist, CIRES and NOAA

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