Category: MOSAiC Blog
First News from Lauriane on Polarstern
They’ve always said, and somehow we knew, MOSAiC was going to be a different expedition. This is particularly true for communication. We’re literally dying for updates from Lauriane on Polarstern. We are eager to know how she is doing, how the situation is and how the data look like that we record. It’s a big (…)
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. Set-up and Farewell in Tromsö The past 10 days were intense. First, (…)
MOSAiC Training School
As in previous expeditions, we equip our red laboratory container. We will operate around 15 different instruments to study the formation of particles, their growth, transport and transformation in the atmosphere and how the influence clouds. This time, however, the expedition is exeptionally long, 1 year, and on each of the six legs we only (…)