help of satellite images. It originated in the Laptev Sea,” explains AWI sea-ice physicist Dr Jakob Belter. The experts then examined the weather along the route. However, the atmospheric data for the [...] sufficiently detailed to allow us to identify the key processes in the changing Arctic,” explains Jakob Belter.  [...] 2016 had previously passed through this unusually warm area off the Russian continental shelf,” says Belter. Furthermore, the ocean heat wave must have been so extreme that its effects on the growth in sea-ice

Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) were also part of the expedition: Stefanie Arndt, Jakob Belter and Christian Katlein, as well as AWI photographer Esther Horvath.

"Finding the wreck was a great [...] backgrounds and with different skill sets come together and unit in pursuit of a common goal," says Jakob Belter.

Stefanie Arndt adds, " When the Endurance was found, we were still working on the sea ice. Exactly

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI): Stefanie Arndt, Jakob Belter and Christian Katlein, together with AWI photographer Esther Horvath and Lasse Rabenstein, CEO