MOSAiC Blog

by Julia Schmale and Ivo Beck

Follow our experiences during the MOSAiC expedition. We conduct aerosol measurements on board the icebreaker Polarstern that will drift from September 2019 to October 2020 through the Arctic. Blog entries will be posted roughly on a bi-weekly basis.

For more scientific background information go to the MOSAiC project website.

To track MOSAiC go here.

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Preparations for Leg 2

Did you know that there exists a course to train participants on how to escape from a helicopter under water? I didn’t. Until today.

By Ivo Beck

First News from Lauriane on Polarstern

All news are precious! Lauriane communicates with us only via 50 kb (!) emails. No images can be exchanged.

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Polarstern and Akademik Federov at the floe

Bird's eye view on the two ice breakers before setting up the floe

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Expedition Start!

“It’s happening, it’s real.”, the chief scientist, Markus Rex (AWI), can’t believe himself that the MOSAiC expedition is on its way now. On 20 September at 20h30 we bid farewell to Polarstern, our colleagues and the crew as they left port in Tromsö.

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MOSAiC Training School

Setting up the instrumentation for an entire year and training six people who will operate the container lab alone during the six MOSAiC legs is a lot of work and a lot of fun.