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1 German Arctic Expeditions FARO/ASSW, 2016, Fairbanks Dirk Mengedoht (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) Dirk Mengedoht, AWI Logistics

2 2015

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4 Polarstern Arctic Expeditions 2015 Leg Start End Mission PS Bremerhaven Longyearbyen Biology / ice physics / oceanography / Arctic Eurasian Margin PS Longyearbyen Tromsø Geo sciences / Greenland Sea PS Tromsø Tromsø Biology / Fram Strait / Hausgarten PS Tromsø Bremerhaven Oceanography / geo sciences / biology / Central Arctic Ocean

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6 Heincke Arctic Expeditions 2015 Leg Start End Mission HE Trondheim Tromsø Geo sciences / Svalbard HE Tromsø Tromsø Geo sciences / Svalbard / Norwegian Sea HE Tromsø Longyearbyen Biology / Svalbard HE Longyearbyen Bremerhaven Oceanography / Fram Strait / Svalbard

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8 POLAR 5/ Leg Start End Pers. Days Institution s Programme name Mission MABANG1 10 AWI NETCARE March 29 April Uni Toronto, EC, AWI, MPI Mainz Mass balance of glaciers in North Greenland NETwork on Climate and Aero-sols: Addressing Key Uncertainties in Remote Canadian Environments Elevation changes of glaciers in north Greenland Characterization of aerosol sources, properties and climate impacts, Sea ice thickness CryoSat Cal/Val MELTEX2 July 01 Aug AWI, Uni Kiel Impact of melt ponds on energy and momentum fluxes between atmosphere and sea ice Sea ice thickness and roughness and radiation above SMOS, CryoSat Cal/Val MRI Test Aug 07 Aug AWI, Uni Kansas Multi channel Radar Imager Test of new ice penetrating muliti channel radar system.

9 PAMARCMIP / NETCARE SPRING 2015 Polar 5 & Polar 6 at Alert April 2015 Hannes Schulz, AWI Bremerhaven Flight activity during PAMARCMIP / NETCARE 2015) from 29 th of March to 25 th of April In total 181 flight hours with POLAR 5 and POLAR 6. In the box it can be seen the flight activity during NETCARE a summer experiment from Resolute Bay, including ship emission measurements CCGS Amundsen (coordinated airborne and ship measurements)

10 2016

11 Polarstern Arctic Expeditions 2016 Leg Start End Mission PS Bremerhaven Tromsö Fram Strait, Greenland, Hausgarten PS Tromsö Tromsö Fram Strait, Spitsbergen, Norway PS Tromsö Bremerhaven Arctic Ocean, Karasik Seamount

12 FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring Ocean Observing System FRAM

13 FUTURE ACTIVITY: PAMARCMIP 2017 Stefan Hendricks, AWI Bremerhaven LYR Station Nord Barrow Alert Eureka Inuvik Sachs Harbour Resolute Bay Airborne mission (March 13, - April 13, 2017), with operation area for sea ice and atmospheric study

14 Land based and other Arctic activities 2015 Leg Start End Pers. Days Nations Mission LENA 2015 April 01 Sep Russia Germany Long term studies of energy and water balance, carbon turn over, greenhous gas emission in permafrost, landform analysis, hydrological, sedimentological and biological studies in lake and soil samples TRANSDRIFT XXIII Sep Sep Russia Germany Recovery of 7 marine moorings from the Laptev Sea by RV Viktor Buinitsky PETA-CARB 2015 March + July August 234 USA, Russia, Germany Collecting lake and permafrost cores, Soil carbon inventory in permafrost landscapes, Carbon quality analyses of Yedoma exposures, Survey and monitoring subsidence in permafrost, installing temperature loggers, Establishing digital elevation model Field regions: Lena Delta + Alaska Northslope + Central Yakutia Yukon SEITE Coast July 15 Aug Canada, Germany, UK Sweden Coastal erosion and permafrost geomorphology Onshore and offshore sediment, carbon and nutrient fluxes Permafrost cores reconstruct paleogeography

15 PETA-CARB Rapid PErmafrost Thaw in a Warming Arctic and Impacts on the Soil Organic CARBon Pool Central Yakutia March 2015: Coring of deep permafrost and lake taliks

16 Land based and other Arctic activities 2016 Leg Start End Pers. Days Nation s Mission LENA 2016 April 01 Sep Russia Germany - Long-term studies of energy and water balance, carbon turnover, greenhouse gas emissions in permafrost ; - hydrological, geomorphological and biological dynamics of permafrost landscapes ; - geocryological and palaeoecological investigations for reconstruction of permafrost, climate and landscape evolution Keperveem 2016 June 25 Aug Russia Germany Degrading permafrost landscapes; carbon, energy and water fluxes, Isotope and biomarker analysis of sedimetary organic matter;quantitative environmental reconstruction using transfer functions;pollen and plant macrofossil analysis PETA-CARB 2016 July August 322 USA, Russia, Germany Collecting lake and permafrost cores, Soil carbon inventory in permafrost landscapes, Carbon quality analyses of Yedoma exposures, Survey and monitoring subsidence in permafrost, installing temperature loggers, Establishing digital elevation model Field regions: Lena Delta + Western Alaska Yukon SEITE Coast April 16 May Canada, Germany, USA Coastal erosion and permafrost geomorphology Onshore and offshore sediment, carbon and nutrient fluxes; Permafrost cores reconstruct paleogeography; Vegetation / land cover change

17 Svalbard activities 2015 Projects Start End Pers. Days Nations Mission April Jan. April Sept. Dec. Aug. In total 2587 (w/o station personnel) France Germany Netherlands Atmospheric sciences Seismology, Gravity Glaciology, Marine Biology

18 Svalbard activities 2016 (planned) Projects Start End Pers. Days Nations Mission April Jan. April Sept. Dec. Aug. In total ca (w/o station personnel) France Germany Netherlands Atmospheric sciences Seismology, Gravity Glaciology, Marine Biology

19 AWIPEV projects distribution 2016

20 Thank you! Dirk Mengedoht, AWI Logistics

21 Current update on:

22 Key Milestones Planning Workshops: 2011, 2012, 2013 Polarstern proposal supported: 2015 US DOE ARM proposal supported: 2014 Draft Science Plan released: Agency/Funders Meeting: April 2015 Implementation Workshop: July 2015 Implementation Plan: MOSAiC Open Science Conference: 2016? Science-based Proposals:

23 2015 activities and links Link to Science Plan: pdf Implementation Workshop in Potsdam, Juli 2015 siehe Preparation of the first draft of the Science Implementation plan, now available, to be discussed at ASSW

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