MOSAiC

A melt pond emerges between large ridges on the MOSAiC ice floe. Photo: Markus Rex/AWI

The ice around us, at least on the Fortress, is filthy.

The Arctic sun shines bright over the MOSAiC floe. Photo: Lianna Nixon/CIRES

Wow, it has been intense out.

A rainbow forms over the Polarstern as the ship docks at its final position. Photo: Lianna Nixon/CIRES

We ran into the floe. Directly.

The research icebreaker Polarstern, at the center of the largest Arctic research expedition ever, is considered to be one of the most advanced and versatile polar research ships in the world. Photo: Lukas Piotrowski/MOSAiC Twitter

In September 2019...

Packing up instruments in Met City, which is situated directly next to a melt pond. (Photo: Lianna Nixon)

After exactly 300 days...

Met City hut

This week: It is a time of transitions in the Arctic. As the MOSAiC ice floe breaks up, sea ice extent in the Arctic is experiencing a record low. Also, MOSAiC leg 4 participants have seen a plethora of polar bears! And, this week's MOSAiC Summer Camp activity: Can you camo? Photo credit: Steffen Graupner/AWI

Scientists working as part of the Mosaic expedition, a big international research project to study the Arctic, have been “very well-insulated from the coronavirus,” said Chris Marsay, a research associate at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. Still, they worry about family and friends and wonder about the “completely different way of life” back at home. CREDIT ESTHER HORVATH / ALFRED-WEGENER-INSTITUTE

There's a place where people...

As calm conditions gradually return after a couple of days of windy conditions, Polarstern is visible through some blowing snow at ground level.

My time working at the...

An ablation shield is set up under the MET tower; Photo credit: Lianna Nixon

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