After drifting away, the Polarstern returns to its original parking spot. Photo: Lianna Nixon/CIRES and CU Boulder.

We are just spinning in circles around here.

A view of the Polarstern from the floe’s edge. Photo: Michael Gutsche/Alfred Wegener Institute

I’ve done the Transect a couple of times now.

Two atmospheric balloons, “Miss Piggy” and “The Beluga,” fly above Met city. Photo: Lianna Nixon/CIRES and CU Boulder

The GFS [a U.S. national weather model] is crushing it out here in the Arctic.

Strolling through the snow: A polar bear visits the MOSAiC floe. Photo: Lianna Nixon/CIRES and CU Boulder.

It’s getting hard to keep track as there have been so many bears lately. 

Leg 4 participants pose before flags from their home countries. Photo: Lianna Nixon/CIRES and CU Boulder

We are about half way through our leg of MOSAiC.

A polar bear paw print earlier in the MOSAiC expedition. Photo: Gina Jozef/CIRES and CU Boulder

Today is not Sunday. Nor was yesterday.