73.28° North, 45.34° East – Sunny, 5.9 °C, wind speed: 7.1 m/s Life onboard the Akademik Tryoshnikov during the Arctic Century Expedition Time is a very scarce and valuable resource on the Arctic Century Expedition and the Akademik Tryoshnikov literally never sleeps. The vessel’s daily schedule is based on the […]

77.39° North, 79.36° East – Cloudy, 0.4 °C, wind speed: 5 m/s Untangling the chemistry of seawater Every single drop of seawater contains all the chemical elements from the periodic table. Some of them exist in large concentrations and their distribution in the ocean is quite uniform. Others exist in […]

77.76° North, 98.73° East – Sunny, -2.1 °C, wind speed: 3.1 m/s Field work on the High Arctic Islands of Severnaya Zemlya After successful visits on Vize and Graham Bell Islands, the terrestrial teams were back in the field on the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Between the 19 and 26 August, […]

79.27° North, 101.52° East – Clear sky, 2.5 °C, wind speed: 2.7 m/s Floating litter in the Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas Much of the research being conducted on the Russian Arctic Century Expedition aims to understand the impacts of global change on the Arctic. A key focus is how […]

79.55° North, 101.43° East – Cloudy, -2.8 °C, wind speed: 1.6 m/s Understanding the organic carbon cycle in the Kara and Laptev Seas During the Arctic Century Expedition, scientific teams from Russia, Germany and Switzerland have joined forces to study the biological processes involved in the cycling of carbon along […]

80.17° North, 96.41° East – Cloudy, – 0.4° C, wind speed: 12 m/s Tracking the atmospheric water cycle in the Kara and Laptev Seas The water cycle describes the transport of water on Earth. The atmospheric part of the cycle includes evaporation from the ocean and terrestrial waters, atmospheric transport, […]

80.54° North, 98.26° East – Foggy, -0.2 °C, wind speed: 4.2 m/s Contributing to the international Argo float network A team of Russian oceanographers have been deploying Argo floats since the Arctic Century Expedition reached the ice edge (see post of 19 August). In total, three floats were deployed on […]

81.55° North, 87.48° East – Sunny, -2.2 °C, wind speed: 4.4 m/s The Arctic Century Expedition reaches the sea ice edge On the evening of 18 August, two weeks after leaving the harbour of Murmansk, the Arctic Century Expedition reached the edge of the sea ice during an oceanographic transect […]