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Gulf Today - The scientist who led the largest-ever...
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![The German research vessel "Polarstern" during the mission in June 2020. Photo: Markus Rex/Alfred-Wegener-Institut/DPA The German research vessel "Polarstern" during the mission in June 2020. Photo: Markus Rex/Alfred-Wegener-Institut/DPA](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-10/a0547f00469486d733de28f27070d3ec600ce0f10cb792d09d2eda60fdb41577.jpg?itok=DTrqSlh3)
Yannick Pasquet, The Local - The biggest Arctic...
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![Sea ice photographed from the research icebreaker RV Polarstern as it approached the North Pole was covered with melt ponds, melting from the bottom and was easy for the ship to sail through. (Folke Mehrtens / AWI) Sea ice photographed from the research icebreaker RV Polarstern as it approached the North Pole was covered with melt ponds, melting from the bottom and was easy for the ship to sail through. (Folke Mehrtens / AWI)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-08/20200817_MOSAiCleg5_FolkeMehrtens_058_small_Kopie-1536x1024-1.jpg?itok=PJYqqDqn)
Yereth Rosen, Arctic Today - Ice is still present...
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![Scientists tow Stroeve's Ku/Ka radar across an opening in sea ice. Even in the heart of winter, sea ice is dynamic. Credit: Julienne Stroeve, NSIDC Scientists tow Stroeve's Ku/Ka radar across an opening in sea ice. Even in the heart of winter, sea ice is dynamic. Credit: Julienne Stroeve, NSIDC](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-08/fullsizeoutput_2a67.jpeg?itok=yI37pOfl)
Agnieszka Gautier, NSIDC - Under the extreme...
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![Ice is broken up by the passing of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska in 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Ice is broken up by the passing of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska in 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-07/LTKA7VX5TZB7VFDFUL4DXUJBMM.jpg?itok=YcqPIvB9)
Andrew Freedman, The Washington Post - If one...
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![Lights returns to the Arctic as ice break ups become more common. Credit: Ivo Beck Lights returns to the Arctic as ice break ups become more common. Credit: Ivo Beck](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-06/20200211_MOSAiC_Leg2_Landscape002.jpg?itok=Za1WhTkS)
Agnieszka Gautier, NSIDC - Frozen into sea ice...
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![This image taken by the AWI’s ROV shows why platelet ice is deserving of its name. It consists of delicate ice wafers, measuring up to 20 centimetres long, which form loose clouds. Photo: BEAST / AWI sea-ice group / Alfred Wegener Institute This image taken by the AWI’s ROV shows why platelet ice is deserving of its name. It consists of delicate ice wafers, measuring up to 20 centimetres long, which form loose clouds. Photo: BEAST / AWI sea-ice group / Alfred Wegener Institute](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/csm_AWI_Tauchroboter_Beast_241aa6763f.jpg?itok=Qgl_pSgc)
Sina Löschke, AWI - Generally speaking, it’s very...
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![As calm conditions gradually return after a couple of days of windy conditions, Polarstern is visible through some blowing snow at ground level. As calm conditions gradually return after a couple of days of windy conditions, Polarstern is visible through some blowing snow at ground level.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-07/Ship-Blown-Snow-650p.jpg?itok=d5xj9_da)
Chris Marsay, UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography - My time working at the...
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![The MOSAiC ice camp and RV Polarstern. (Photo credit: Stefan Hendricks) The MOSAiC ice camp and RV Polarstern. (Photo credit: Stefan Hendricks)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/0520_Mosaic_vessel_974.jpg?itok=ccaJxbOy)
Kristen Pope, Yale Climate Connections - While much of the world was...
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![Graduate student Oguz Demir Graduate student Oguz Demir](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/oguzsmaller.jpg?itok=jrPMCeRq)
Ryan Horns, The Ohio State University - “I didn’t expect it to be so cold...”
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![Captain Stefan Schwarze from the Polarstern visits the Kapitan Dranitsyn icebreaker after the two vessels met in the ice in March. Credit: Michael Gutsche/Alfred-Wegener-Institut Captain Stefan Schwarze from the Polarstern visits the Kapitan Dranitsyn icebreaker after the two vessels met in the ice in March. Credit: Michael Gutsche/Alfred-Wegener-Institut](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/mosaic.jpeg?itok=kTqMVOhN)
Michael Kodas, InsideClimateNews - In March 2019...
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![Maddie Smith in the Beaufort Sea in 2015, in front of the R/V Sikuliaq. “It was my first time standing on sea ice (over thousands of meters of water!), so I was pretty excited.” (Photo courtesy of Maddie Smith) Maddie Smith in the Beaufort Sea in 2015, in front of the R/V Sikuliaq. “It was my first time standing on sea ice (over thousands of meters of water!), so I was pretty excited.” (Photo courtesy of Maddie Smith)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/IMG_8315-1260x840.jpeg?itok=KcQa2t3q)
Kurt Schlosser, GeekWire - Maddie Smith is ready to drift...
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![The German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp in the Arctic region, on April 24, 2020. Manuel Ernst—Alfred-Wegner-Institut/AP The German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp in the Arctic region, on April 24, 2020. Manuel Ernst—Alfred-Wegner-Institut/AP](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/mosaic-expedition-coronavirus-2.jpg?itok=m77wL1bT)
Frank Jordans, AP News/TIME - They prepared for icy cold...
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![Hoarfrost covers the snow where researchers cross a lagoon in Utqiavik, AK on April 9, 2019. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) Hoarfrost covers the snow where researchers cross a lagoon in Utqiavik, AK on April 9, 2019. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/QQP7OOW3EII6TLDDGALHCFKD7Y.jpg?itok=jrYo_wiQ)
Maddie Smith, The Washington Post - An unusually pronounced Arctic weather...
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![Members of Leg 3 of the Multi-disciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) line the rails of the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn prior to the ship’s departure from Tromsø, Norway, in February. (Photo by Carin Ashjian, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) MOSAiC Participants](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/Screen%20Shot%202020-05-04%20at%205.51.32%20PM.png?itok=-2Y1ENAV)
Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - WHOI biologist...
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![Researchers unload scientific instruments from the Polarstern and put them on sleds for delivery to Met City, located about 600 meters from the ship. Researchers unload scientific instruments from the Polarstern and put them on sleds for delivery to Met City, located about 600 meters from the ship.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/20191011_estherhorvath_mosaicleg1-12_0.jpg?itok=YvfSJ7nq)
Michelle Nijhuis, Smithsonian Magazine - Few people would choose...
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![The Polarstern, right, and the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn during a transfer of supplies and personnel in December. The Polarstern, right, and the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn during a transfer of supplies and personnel in December.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-05/24CLI-MOSIAC1-superJumbo-v2.jpg?itok=DX43_2i-)
Henry Fountain, The New York Times - With a scheduled mission...
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![The sun rises over Arctic sea ice in the fall, hovering on the horizon and creating a perpetual “golden hour” during the day. Photo Credit: Sean Horvath Sunset](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-04/Sunset%281%29.jpg?itok=LCdYXk2U)
Audrey Payne, National Snow and Ice Data Center - “The first time I saw...
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![The icebreakers Kapitan Dranitsyn, front, and Polarstern sit amid Arctic ice on Feb. 28. Photo Credit: Steffen Graupner/Alfred-Wegener-Institute/AP RV Polarstern](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-04/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-03%20at%201.39.47%20PM.png?itok=xLF3eMSG)
Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post - When 43 scientists set...
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![RV Polarstern on the MOSAiC Expedition. Photo Credit: Marc Oggier, University of Alaska Fairbanks Icebreaker](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-03/2020-03-06.png?itok=EiafC3LJ)
Rachel Kaplan, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - As the sun set on 2019...
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![Carin Ashjian headshot Scientist in warm clothing on a boat.](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-01/Screen%20Shot%202020-01-23%20at%208.55.33%20AM.png?itok=2Z8pIUHv)
Christine Legere, Cape Cod Times - Carin Ashjian will...
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![The icebreaker Polarstern the morning after a crack cleaved the ice floe in two, sending some experiments into the water. Credit: Shannon Hall icebreaker](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-01/PSvoyage_Shannon-Hall_Ship-Polarstern_3K-wide.jpg?itok=VMsER5Sk)
Shannon Hall, Quanta Magazine - Arctic ice is disappearing...
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![A crack opens up in the ice alongside the research vessel Polarstern. Researchers on the MOSAiC mission are struggling to cope with more fragile and easily fractured ice, a consequence of climate change. Photo: Matthew Shupe Icebreaker in ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-01/Untitled.png?itok=X0xf0ZGY)
Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post - Not long after the Arctic sun set...
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![Arctic researchers returned to Tromsø, Norway, after completing the first leg of a yearlong polar expedition. Other scientists remained on an icebreaker tethered to ice in the Arctic. Photo: Esther Horvath Ship in port](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2020-01/image_asset_71067.jpg?itok=lf8ED-3a)
Chelsea Harvey, Climate Wire - The first leg of an ambitious...
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![Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Stefan Hendricks Scientists in the Arctic](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-12/1219_Mosaic_StefanHendricks.jpg?itok=BGqOvtfX)
Kristen Pope, Yale Climate Connections - The MOSAiC project is 'the biggest...
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![After the storm. Photo: AWI/Stefan Hendricks scientists repair equipment on ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-12/storm%20banner%20%281%29.jpg?itok=O_9B9Amd)
CIRES - A three-day storm, 40-mph winds cut power to science “cities”...
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![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 Ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-12/4_custom-134240e0e0eff5a54c127a7d58b3157c920ac479-s800-c85.jpg?itok=yn4bTfxA)
Ravenna Koenig, NPR - Arctic researchers just starting out face an...
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![Ship track of the MOSAiC Expedition. Photo: AWI/https://follow.mosaic-expedition.org/ map](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/map.png?itok=l4NDWdYI)
Ravenna Koenig, NPR - The Arctic Ocean is a stunning place...
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![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 View from the icebreaker](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-12/Carbonbrief.png?itok=D2PcKI_7)
Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief - The world’s largest polar research expedition...
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![Even locked in the ice, the Polarstern produces light, noise, and emissions that could affect many studies. Photo: SHANNON HALL Ship in ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/ca_1115NF_MOSAIC_1280x720.jpg?itok=gq1WOM-o)
Shannon Hall, Science - Aboard the Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean
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![Sandro Dahlke releases a weather balloon into the air onboard the Polarstern research icebreaker, which is frozen in place in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. Photo: Shannon Hall meteorological balloon](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/balloon.png?itok=uBAoR9it)
Shannon Hall, Scientific American - Their data will also bolster climate...
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![Scientists on the research vessel Akademik Fedorov spent a week or so setting up a network of scientific monitoring equipment up to about 25 miles from the MOSAiC ship. Photo: Ravenna Koenig/NPR red ship on white ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/Screen%20Shot%202019-11-12%20at%2012.37.06%20PM.png?itok=1mcE-3J-)
Ravenna Koenig, NPR - Arctic sea ice is one of the most dramatic...
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![The German icebreaker Polarstern is moored to a piece of ice that scientists hope to drift with and study for the next year. Photo: Ravenna Koenig/NPR ship covered in ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/3085890_arctic-ice-floe-7-edfb4ff08e51a228de664777b99f172be360070c-s1200-c85.jpg?itok=upGH9d0M)
Ravenna Koenig, NPR - High up in the Arctic Ocean close to the North Pole...
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![Arctic Sun in October, by Shannon Hall Shannon Hall photo of Arctic sun](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/Screen%20Shot%202019-11-04%20at%208.36.37%20AM.png?itok=JsSihuaL)
Shannon Hall, The New York Times - As winter sets in...
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![Esther Horvath is currently drifting through the Arctic Ocean as part of the MOSAiC expedition, a multinational scientific mission attempting to measure changes in the Arctic. Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Esther Horvath view from the captains chair](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_191003135238-esther-horvath-mosaic-2.jpg?itok=n80I5yEd)
Thomas Page, CNN - The Arctic is heating twice as fast as the global average.
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![Seeker's new short video take on MOSAiC mission Amanda Deisler on Seeker](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-10/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-15%20at%202.10.42%20PM.png?itok=ic4lSE3e)
Seeker - Semany Gashaw produced an engaging short video on MOSAiC...
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![The Mosaic expedition is taking a large team of scientists to the Arctic sea ice, where they will take year-round measurements of the Arctic climate Photo: AWI/Stefan Hendricks ship crew](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/crew.png?itok=KmpXd4jk)
Martha Henriques, BBC - The world’s largest polar expedition...
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![The Akademik Federov in heavy ice, Sept. 29, 2019. Ravenna Koenig, NPR ship in thick ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-10/Screen%20Shot%202019-10-15%20at%201.28.09%20PM.png?itok=IUncM80n)
Ravenna Koenig, NPR - One of the most ambitious polar science...
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![After arrival a first group of scientists surveys the MOSAiC ice floe and marks walking ways and zones with green flags. Photo: Sebastian Grote/AWI small people in a line on the ice, beside icebreaker](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-10/20191005_MOSAiC5_Arrival_SebastianGrote.jpg?itok=ZH6QoNvR)
Mary Louise Kelley, NPR - The first challenge is to find a massive chunk of ice...
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![Hoarfrost covers the snow where researchers cross a lagoon in Utqiagvik, Alaska, on April 9. The researchers are among a group gathered to prepare for the upcoming year-long MOSAiC expedition that will collect data on Arctic climate and ecosystems. Photo: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post scientists on ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/X5SQPPTUBMI6TEZRGC6FQNXURY.jpg?itok=JF2qqgEF)
Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post - Hundreds of scientists are about to...
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![RV Polarstern. Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Stefan Hendricks ship in ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/d41586-019-02823-x_17193298.jpg?itok=A-WCVwNe)
Quirin Schiermeier, Nature - Warming temperatures are changing the Arctic...
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![Photo: M. Hoppmann Polarstern ship on ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-09/20130705_AWECS_ANT29_6_367_MarioHoppmann.jpg?itok=ZvzW_FKx)
CIRES, NSF, AWI, DOE - CU Boulder researchers join international colleagues for epic Arctic mission
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![Research icebreaker Polarstern casts its shadow across icy waters. Photo: Ingo Arndt/Getty Images shadow of ship](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-11/shadow.png?itok=BZ57qhHm)
Shannon Hall, Scientific American - Scientists setting sail to the North Pole will become stranded...
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![MOSAiC's Ice Camp Graphic of ice camp](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-09/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-13%20at%209.26.42%20AM.png?itok=iSSJGmY6)
AWI - Check out this interactive graphic showing the small city of instruments and facilities that will be set up on the ice!
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Amy Richman and Lianna Nixon - Two CU Boulder graduate students, funded by NSF, are producing a planetarium show about the expedition.
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![Polarstern in Antarctica in 2013. Photo: Stefan Hendricks/Alfred Wegener Institute Polarstern ship frozen in ice, scientists in foreground](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-08/Screen%20Shot%202019-08-29%20at%202.42.36%20PM.png?itok=FGWjw6jP)
Eli Kintish, Science - Science reporter Eli Kintish writes about the international mission to study Arctic climate (article may have paywall).
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![Arctic sea ice lead, low sun arctic sea ice lead, low sun](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-08/20150913_ps94_arktis_089_mhoppmann.jpg?itok=C3qO6jnD)
Trent Knoss, CU Boulder - The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on the planet, with enormous implications for the future of global climate.
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![Two researchers work on the ice in front of the German research icebreaker Polarstern. Photo: AWI scientists in blowing snow, dark](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-08/website%20banner.png?itok=den4kdF3)
Trent Knoss, CU Boulder - The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on the planet, with enormous implications for the future of global climate.
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![LANL’s Heath Powers (left), facility operations manager for an ARM Mobile Facility that will be aboard the MOSAiC mission, and Matthew Shupe, CIRES/NOAA scientist and US lead for the international Arctic climate mission, discuss the customized MOSAiC instrumentation in Spring 2019. LANL's Heath Powers and CIRES/NOAA's Matthew Shupe](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-08/MOSAiC_beta_test2_1500px.jpg?itok=SuLrXgHq)
DOE ARM - More than 10 years after the idea was conceived, the largest research expedition to the central Arctic will commence September 20, 2019.
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Kathy Bogan, CIRES - In September 2019 the German research icebreaker Polarstern will depart from Tromsø, Norway...
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Sarah Kaplan - Sarah Kaplan from the Washington Post captured the intensity of a MOSAiC training week in Utquiagvik, Alaska, this spring.
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![Equipment testing at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory two people on building, checking equipment](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-08/DOEslide.png?itok=Cy741XaM)
Anjeli Doty, Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team - Counting down to the launch of mega-campaign MOSAiC, by Anjeli Doty, DOE
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![Two researchers work on the ice in front of the German research icebreaker Polarstern. Photo: AWI Polarstern parked on ice](/sites/default/files/styles/news_thumb_new/public/2019-08/20130705_AWECS_ANT29_6_367_MarioHoppmann%20%281%29.jpg?itok=TZi50Qby)
College of Engineering & Applied Science - Graduate student Sean Horvath was one of 20 applicants from many countries selected for MOSAiC School 2019.
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