by Matthew Shupe, CIRES/NOAA scientist and co-coordinator of MOSAiC With still some days until the Akademik Tryoshnikov gets here, we’ve been trying to use our extra time with Polarstern wisely. We’re going around to recover various assets that were installed on the ice and have not spread out all over the place. Yesterday we were… Read More

by Matthew Shupe, CIRES/NOAA scientist and co-coordinator of MOSAiC With the rapid decline of the MOSAiC floe in its last days, I became increasingly concerned about the stability of the L2 site and our flux sled there. A few weeks ago it was 7 nautical miles away, then over a couple days this ballooned up… Read More

by Matthew Shupe, CIRES/NOAA scientist and co-coordinator of MOSAiC Lianna Nixon is onboard here, representing our Colorado/CIRES team. She’s working on a Master’s Degree in education and was selected to participate on our communications team. She takes truly fantastic photographs, of people, of wildlife. Capturing so many moments. For a project, she has asked us… Read More