EDIT: Original post was too long and rambling. One advice by wise female council, I decided to turn this into two separate posts. This is the first. July 5, 2014.
The “Quiet American” is not a popular book in the United States of America, but to me it described the dilemma and dangers of being American very well. Continue reading
Posted in History, Polar Exploration, Uncertainty
Tagged Bruce Chatwin, climate, exploration, Greenland, helicopter, informal education, Sara Wheeler, tipping points, Veterans, Vietnam
The FS Polarstern will leave port tomorrow night for scientific work between Greenland and Spitsbergen near 79 degrees north latitude about 1200 km or 770 miles from the North Pole. It will be hard work, Continue reading
Posted in Nares Strait 2012, Polar Exploration, Polarstern, Uncertainty
Tagged democracy, Nares Strait, oceanography, peer review, predictability, ships
I walked from the train station in Bremerhaven-Lehe to the FS Polarstern at the Kaiserdock almost 2 miles due west. This research icebreaker is still repaired in dry dock and we see her Continue reading
Posted in Polarstern
Tagged Bremerhaven, exploration, harbor, immigration, maritime industry, ocean, offshore wind power, ships
Ice floats and moves abouts. It melts in summer, it freezes in winter, but it moves from here to Continue reading
Posted in Ice Cover, Nares Strait 2012, Oceanography
Tagged Arctic Ocean, ice, moorings, Nares Strait, oceanography, physics, sonar, underwater acoustics
I am on my way to northern Greenland and just arrived badly time-lagged in Diez near Frankfurt from Philadelphia. Together with fellow scientists and technicians from Germany, Poland, and Canada, Continue reading
Posted in Greenland, Oceanography
Tagged Germany, Greenland, logistics, moorings, Polarstern
Icy Seas 