First Day at Sea: Moving In

Posted on June 8, 2014 by | Leave a comment

Position: 57 34.9 N and 05 10.9E
Time: 11:25pm June-7, 2014
Temperature: 14.3 C air and 12.8 C water at surface

We are a few miles south-west of Stavanger, Norway Continue reading →

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Rules of Engagement: Ships, Science, and Democracy

Posted on June 5, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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 →

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Boarding an Ice Breaker by Bicycle and Immigration

Posted on June 4, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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 →

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Measuring Ice Thickness From The Ocean

Posted on May 30, 2014 by | 1 comment

Ice floats and moves abouts. It melts in summer, it freezes in winter, but it moves from here to Continue reading →

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First steps to Greenland

Posted on May 28, 2014 by | 5 comments

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 →

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