German Arctic Expeditions 2015-2016 FARO/ASSW, 2016, Fairbanks Dirk Mengedoht (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany) Dirk Mengedoht, AWI Logistics
2015
Polarstern Arctic Expeditions 2015 Leg Start End Mission PS92 19.05.2015 Bremerhaven 28.06.2015 Longyearbyen Biology / ice physics / oceanography / Arctic Eurasian Margin PS93.1 29.06.2015 Longyearbyen 18.07.2015 Tromsø Geo sciences / Greenland Sea PS93.2 21.07.2015 Tromsø 15.08.2015 Tromsø Biology / Fram Strait / Hausgarten PS94 17.08.2015 Tromsø 15.10.2015 Bremerhaven Oceanography / geo sciences / biology / Central Arctic Ocean
Heincke Arctic Expeditions 2015 Leg Start End Mission HE449 01.08.2015 Trondheim 22.08.2015 Tromsø Geo sciences / Svalbard HE450 25.08.2015 Tromsø 08.09.2015 Tromsø Geo sciences / Svalbard / Norwegian Sea HE450.1 11.09.2015 Tromsø 29.09.2015 Longyearbyen Biology / Svalbard HE450.2 30.09.2015 Longyearbyen 11.10.2015 Bremerhaven Oceanography / Fram Strait / Svalbard
POLAR 5/6 2015 Leg Start End Pers. Days Institution s Programme name Mission MABANG1 10 AWI NETCARE March 29 April 25 181 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 04 165 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 31 70 AWI, Uni Kansas Multi channel Radar Imager Test of new ice penetrating muliti channel radar system.
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 2015. In total 181 flight hours with POLAR 5 and POLAR 6. In the box it can be seen the flight activity during NETCARE 2014 - a summer experiment from Resolute Bay, including ship emission measurements CCGS Amundsen (coordinated airborne and ship measurements)
2016
Polarstern Arctic Expeditions 2016 Leg Start End Mission PS99 07.06.2016 Bremerhaven 22.7.2016 Tromsö Fram Strait, Greenland, Hausgarten PS100 24.7.2016 Tromsö 13.9.2016 Tromsö Fram Strait, Spitsbergen, Norway PS101 15.9.2016 Tromsö 21.10.2016 Bremerhaven Arctic Ocean, Karasik Seamount
FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring Ocean Observing System FRAM
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
Land based and other Arctic activities 2015 Leg Start End Pers. Days Nations Mission LENA 2015 April 01 Sep 30 2020 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 14 2015 July 15 Aug 23 610 Canada, Germany, UK Sweden Coastal erosion and permafrost geomorphology Onshore and offshore sediment, carbon and nutrient fluxes Permafrost cores reconstruct paleogeography
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
Land based and other Arctic activities 2016 Leg Start End Pers. Days Nation s Mission LENA 2016 April 01 Sep 30 1775 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 10 276 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 16 2016 April 16 May 24 244 Canada, Germany, USA Coastal erosion and permafrost geomorphology Onshore and offshore sediment, carbon and nutrient fluxes; Permafrost cores reconstruct paleogeography; Vegetation / land cover change
Svalbard activities 2015 Projects Start End Pers. Days Nations Mission 9 33 2 April Jan. April Sept. Dec. Aug. In total 2587 (w/o station personnel) France Germany Netherlands Atmospheric sciences Seismology, Gravity Glaciology, Marine Biology
Svalbard activities 2016 (planned) Projects Start End Pers. Days Nations Mission 9 40 3 April Jan. April Sept. Dec. Aug. In total ca. 2800 (w/o station personnel) France Germany Netherlands Atmospheric sciences Seismology, Gravity Glaciology, Marine Biology
AWIPEV projects distribution 2016
Thank you! Dirk Mengedoht, AWI Logistics
Current update on:
Key Milestones Planning Workshops: 2011, 2012, 2013 Polarstern proposal supported: 2015 US DOE ARM proposal supported: 2014 Draft Science Plan released: 2014-2015 Agency/Funders Meeting: April 2015 Implementation Workshop: July 2015 Implementation Plan: 2015-2016 MOSAiC Open Science Conference: 2016? Science-based Proposals: 2015-2018 www.mosaicobservatory.org
2015 activities and links Link to Science Plan: http://www.mosaicobservatory.org/uploads/1/2/8/9/12899015/mosaicscienceplan 2016.pdf Implementation Workshop in Potsdam, Juli 2015 siehe http://www.mosaicobservatory.org/implementation-workshop.html Preparation of the first draft of the Science Implementation plan, now available, to be discussed at ASSW 2016 www.mosaicobservatory.org