suitable ice floe, where they will set up the research camp for their one-year-long drift through the ArcticOcean. Consequently, one of the most important milestones in the expedition has been reached ahead of
the Alfred Wegener Institute’s flagship has successfully completed more than 130 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and offered a temporary home for thousands of researchers from Germany and around the [...] safely traversed 1.8 million nautical miles. The ship is currently on an expedition in the Southern Ocean.
Due to intensifying sea-ice melting in the Arctic, sunlight is now penetrating deeper and deeper into the ocean. Since marine zooplankton respond to the available light, this is also changing their behaviour
and Technology, and the PEBCAO Group (Phytoplankton Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Changing ArcticOcean) at AWI and the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group SEAPUMP (Seasonal and regional food web i
forward to continuing the one-year-long MOSAiC expedition and its research on the ocean, ice and atmosphere in the Arctic. Earlier this week, their predecessors from Leg 3 returned to Bremerhaven on board