Spending a winter researching on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean has long been a dream for most sea ice specialists. The expedition would be too complex, the polar weather too unpredictable, or so they said. In September 2019, however, what had previously seemed impossible began. As part of the international MOSAiC Expedition, the German research icebreaker Polarstern was deliberately frozen into the Arctic sea ice for a year, giving polar researchers from 20 nations the opportunity of a lifetime.

In a camp on the ice in the central Arctic, they studied sea ice, the ocean, the atmosphere and marine life around the clock. They witnessed a gigantic transformation of the North Polar region, whose first casualty will most likely be the sea ice.

The DriftStories published about the MOSAiC Expedition are available to order free of charge!

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