Hello everyone! My name is Antonia Immerz, and I am the data manager for the MOSAiC expedition. Currently I am in my home office in Bremerhaven, Germany, where my institute, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is situated. This is also where the dataset from the MOSAiC expedition is currently stored.
I was on the first and fourth leg of the MOSAiC expedition onboard the research vessel and ice breaker Polarstern. On the first leg, I experienced the beginning of Arctic winter and polar night, where there is no daylight. On the fourth leg, I saw how the ice changes during the melt season in late spring and experienced "polar day," when the sun doesn’t set at all. I was part of the team that set up the ice camp on the MOSAiC floe at the very beginning of the expedition. After two weeks of traveling into the ice, a suitable floe was found. The scientific instruments needed to be set up on the ice, and so did the entire infrastructure in order to have power and a data network. Power was needed to run many instruments and the data network that controlled the instruments from the ship and transfered data back to the ship.
