MOSAiC

The Arctic Ocean is a unique part of the globe, covered by ice much of the year and fairly isolated from the other oceans. Learn about how water in the Arctic Ocean moves around and why using this interactive graphic from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The Akademik Federov in heavy ice, Sept. 29, 2019. Ravenna Koenig, NPR

One of the most ambitious polar science...

Learn about the various plants and animals that make up Arctic Ocean ecosystems using this interactive graphic from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

A crack can turn within hours into a kind of ridge and then open again. This is a perfect example of the dynamics of the MOSAiC floe. Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Sebastian Grote

Today was Day 24 of the cruise and the 10th day of the drift. The setup phase is drawing to a close and our colleagues who came for the install will leave on Federov this Thursday. With that, the measurement phase begins. For our project, the ship bow tower was raised on Saturday and the sonic anemometers and Licor are running.

Ryleigh Moore after installing a seasonal ice mass balance buoy at the second distributed network L-site.

My name is Ryleigh Moore and I am an applied mathematics PhD student at the University of Utah. I currently study the evolution of Arctic melt pond geometry for one of my research projects and I am also working on numerical solvers for high dimensional stochastic differential equations.

In this interactive graphic, students click on Arctic Ocean currents to follow sea water as it enters and exits the Arctic.