MOSAiC Expedition: Dr. Gunnar Spreen Starts His Adventure in the Ice
This will lead to results that are better and more reliable.” After departure from Tromsø on September 20, it will take quite a time for the vessel to reach the polar region. “We will need to hurry when we [...] the “pilot group.” At that point, Gunnar Spreen will hand over his research job in the Arctic to Markus Huntemann from the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) [...] total of 600 international participants, half of which are researchers, will be part of the mission. Markus Rex, Head of MOSAiC, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, says: “This mission is ground breaking. Never