Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is traveling on the first leg of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign, which started September 20, 2019. Creamean is blogging for ARM about her MOSAiC journey. All photos and captions are by Creamean except where indicated. …

Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is participating in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Creamean wrote this blog post before starting her journey toward the central Arctic on September 20, 2019. Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is participating…