Leg II of the MOSAiC expedition is about to begin! This week, learn about buoys and look at some of the data coming in from MOSAiC buoys that were deployed in the Arctic. Also, MOSAiC scientist Dr. Marcel Nicolaus answers your question about changing sea ice. Photo credit: Michael Gallagher, CIRES/NOAA
The helicopter leaves for a team ATMOS flight to one of the distributed network sites just before the storm. Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Stefan Hendricks (CC-BY 4)
by Byron Blomquist, CIRES and NOAA
Who owns the Arctic? This week, we dive into that very tricky question, and explore why this is becoming more relevant as the seasonal Arctic sea ice shrinks. Image credit: European Parliamentary Research Service
The research ship Polarstern, frozen into an ice floe in late October. Credit: Esther Horvath / AWI
Despite difficult ice conditions...
After the storm, there is lots of pressure on the sea ice, moving the ice floe significantly. To cross the lead between Ocean City and Remote Sensing Site safely, we made a bridge out of a Nansen sled and a palette. We are monitoring the ice movements from the bridge of Polarstern and also from the sea ice. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut/Stefan Hendricks
November 15-17, a powerful winter storm blew over the German icebreaker RV Polarstern and through the scientific “cities” set up on the ice around the ship. Intense winds tore new cracks in the ice floe next to the ship, sending some ice-based instruments adrift. Amy Richman, a CIRES videographer who is on board to gather material for a National Science Foundation-funded planetarium show about MOSAiC, describes the storm and shares her thoughts on the broader scientific effort that is MOSAiC:
This week we bring you a MOSAiC expedition week 10 update. Learn how the MOSAiC team has had to adapt to changing Arctic conditions and what they do to relax and have fun when they're not hard at work. Photo credit: Katharina Weiss-Tuider