Die größte Arktis-Expedition in der Geschichte - Kosmischer Mittwoch

In the organizer's words:

Lecture supported by 360° images

The Arctic is an essential building block in the climate system of planet Earth and at the same time the epicenter of climate change - it is warming many times faster than the rest of the planet. To understand why the Arctic system is changing at such an accelerated rate, the largest Arctic expedition in history to date, MOSAiC, was realized.
The one-year Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) was an interdisciplinary and international expedition to the Arctic led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Around 90 polar research institutes from 20 nations were involved - 442 people worked in the central Arctic during the various phases of the expedition.
MOSAiC was the most complex Arctic research expedition to date, bringing a modern research icebreaker to the central Arctic in winter for the first time. It was supported by supply expeditions with seven icebreakers, research vessels and aircraft. The German research vessel Polarstern drifted around 3,400 kilometers in a zigzag course through the central Arctic for sampling, experiments and data collection in the atmosphere, sea ice and ocean, starting from the Siberian sector to the Fram Strait (including some additional routes).

Dr. Alexander Schulz (AWI) was the responsible project manager of MOSAiC and reports on the expedition. Among other things, impressive 360° images from the far north will be shown.