Hunting “Nessie”
Submitted by Joana on Fri, 2024-12-27 07:31
Photo: Christian R. Rohleder (CC BY-SA license)
The upper Arctic Ocean is a strong part in global change, yet notoriously under-observed, despite significant efforts and advances in in situ and remote sensing observations during the past decades. Here, two scientists and engineers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany are recovering a seafloor mooring that measured different physical and chemical variables over a whole year in the upper Central Arctic Ocean under the sea ice. Previously released from its anchor, the upper part of the mooring shows some resemblance to the mythical “Loch Ness monster”. Drifting, it evaded the crew and scientists of RV Polarstern for 15 hours before being recovered.
- Submitted by Benjamin Rabe
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