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  • Jessie Creamean: Sampling Central Arctic Aerosols

    An atmospheric chemist investigates the role of biological particles in aerosol-cloud interactions during the MOSAiC expedition Jessie Creamean snaps a selfie in early October 2019 in front of the Russian support icebreaker Akademik Fedorov. She was helping to set up a distributed network of instruments in the early days of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for…

  • Polarstern Returns to the MOSAiC Floe

    New team continues fieldwork in the Arctic Members of the first team on the MOSAiC floe during Leg 4 are, from left to right, Lianna Nixon, Julia Regnery, Amy Macfarlane, and Delphin Ruche. Photos are by Lisa Grosfeld, Alfred Wegener Institute. From the Alfred Wegener Institute: After a month’s absence, on 17 June the German…

  • ARM Nimbly Handles Change in MOSAiC Plans

    Instruments gathered data on icebreaker while it was away from the ice The R/V Polarstern (left) helps carry out the crew exchange and supply delivery for MOSAiC Leg 4 in early June 2020 near Svalbard, Norway. Photo is by Leonard Magerl, Alfred Wegener Institute. Even out of the ice, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 5

    Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. He provided some photos for a blog published earlier on the ARM website. Here are more photos Silva sent back from his time on the expedition. Photos are by…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 4

    Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Here are some photos Silva sent back from his time on the expedition. Photos are by Silva except where indicated. In the wind, I am fixing ARM network cable going…

  • ARM Technicians Get Face Time on AWI MOSAiC Blog

    Since the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition began in September 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has had technicians on the icebreaker R/V Polarstern to oversee its 50-plus instruments. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which leads MOSAiC, is producing daily blog updates on the expedition. On May 3,…

  • Arctic Research Soars to New Heights

    This story was originally published on the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website.  CIRES postdoctoral researcher Radiance Calmer (left) and University of Colorado, Boulder, engineering graduate student Jonathan Hamilton place an unmanned aerial system on its launcher in preparation for its first test flight in Boulder. It’s the same kind they are using…