The last station
We left the Greenland Sea in a rush! After searching for ice-free waters and mapping …
Most fabulous experience
The Arctic ice pack is a natural wonder. Observations over the past decades show that …
Polar bear in sight!
It happens during the sea-ice coring when Anna Silyakova, Henry Patton and Christine Lockwood-Ireland are …
Harvesting the DNA
Watching the ice break is as captivating and mesmerising as watching the fire burn. Text …
Beauty of the Dark
A November cruise towards Greenland is challenging. You only realise it when you face it. …
The sound of sea ice hitting the hull
This cruise will be a bit of an adventure, in that it is the first …
Greenland in the Dark
Shall I start with COVID-19? Yes. I can assure you that we keep social distancing, …
Picking up plastic trash
According to a study from 2015 1, between 4.8 to 12.7 million tons of plastic …
“Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!” – Fridtjof Nansen
What is it that attracts the explorer’s heart so much to the sea? To the …
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Fish gets in the way
You never stop learning. That this is the core philosophy of our profession and the …
Rituals after our Arctic expeditions
It has become a tradition that when we finish an expedition in Longyearbyen, we celebrate …
Into the fjord
For the last two days, we have been waiting for the arrival of the bad …
Vestnesa is hot with fever
When I Ieft for the cruise I had strong mixed feelings about leaving. My one-year-old …
It’s all about that heat and stress (tectonic, of course)
We had a rough transit from Tromsø to the Fram Strait. Six-meter waves and …
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Mixed Emotions
Setting up a demanding scientific expedition to the Arctic Ocean in the midst of a …
Mud everywhere
Adventdalen on Spitsbergen, like many other glacial valleys in the High Arctic, is punctuated by …
Hidden Fractures of the Mother Earth
Text and photo: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, researcher CAGE; project leader SEAMSTRESS. By the time the last …
Searching for the unexpected signals in the deep sea
Text and photo: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, researcher CAGE; project leader SEAMSTRESS We started the cruise abiding by …
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A special kind of fishing trip
Text and photos: Andrea Plaza-Faverola, researcher CAGE; project leader SEAMSTRESS. Seven ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) …
An altruistic beginning for SEAMSTRESS expedition
Text: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, leader. SEAMSTRESS project. The second expedition to continue with the Ocean …
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We discovered new methane pingos in the Barents Sea
Text: Pavel Serov, CAGE. We were not supposed to find gas hydrates (flammable ice-like crystals …
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Coring under the Arctic midnight sun
Text and photos: Lina Alexandropoulou, CAGE It’s Monday the 13th of July 2020, 13:54:09. According …
Into the blue
Text and photos: Henry Patton, chief scientist Even by generous estimates, around 80% of the …
Birds will be birds
Text and photos: Frances Cooke, phd CAGE. I arrived in Tromsø in 2019 at the …
Into the heart of an ancient ice sheet
Text: Henry Patton, chief scientist. During the last ice age a vast, 3-km thick ice …
Wrapped up on the way home
After discovering new hot spots for methane release and collecting nice new data set, we …
Hunting for flares
For the duration of this cruise, we are hunters. Not for wildlife, not for the …
Murphy’s law strikes in High Arctic
According to the so-called Murphy’s law “If something can go wrong, it will. And usually …
The last day
We ended the cruise in the Trondheimsfjord. After completing the program in the Vestbrona Volcanic …
You cannot work for 24 hours!
What is the purpose of a research cruise, you may ask? Yes, spend the time …
Paparazzi on the high seas
Being in the limelight can be so stressful, it can lead people to give up …
Steaming south-southwest
After we finished the final ROV operations at the South Canyon in Lofoten around Monday …
Midnight sun trip through amazing scenery
As I’m writing this, we’ve just finished our first-day onboard Research Vessel G.O. Sars. Text: …
Leaving Tromsø onboard RV “G.O. Sars” on a brilliant summer day
We set out for a journey, chasing the freshwater from an ancient ice sheet, on …
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Chasing the freshwater from an old ice sheet
During a spectacular cruise in 2017 onboard RV “G.O. Sars” a CAGE team of scientists …
Chief Scientists Diary: Jochen Knies
NOVEMBER 7. Dear team and crew: Thank you for your spirit and motivation! The last …
Always be afraid of DNA contamination!
Text and photos: Danielle Grant and Kristine Steinsland, NORCE Climate Danielle and Kristine here! We …
Chief Scientists Diary: Jochen Knies
November 3: On Overconfidence and High Spirits Well, we became quite confident in what we …
Long days and beautiful views
Text and photos: Remi Vachon WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019. It is my first time …
Chief Scientist’s Blog: Jochen Knies
October 28, 2019: It is all about teamwork The routines onboard are now settled. Everyone …
Working 8448
Text and Photos: Jens Gruetzner, Jens is a researcher in the Geophysics department at the …
Pore water and cinnamon rolls
Text and photos: Simone Sauer Last week was great on the RV Kronprins Haakon. We …
A core that stretches forever
Text and photos: Carmen Braun This is my first cruise with a Calypso corer, so …
Chief Scientist’s Diary: Jochen Knies
October 26, 2019: Bend it like Beckham. Well, things can go terribly wrong during an …
Creating lots of sound without too much noise
Text: Frances Cooke This is my first cruise aboard the Kronprins Haakon. It is a …
Core on deck? All hands on deck!
Text and photos: Mariana da Silveira Ramos Esteves, Follow Mariana on Twitter for more Arctic …
Chief Scientist’s Diary: Jochen Knies
October 23-24, 2019: Patience now, please! The cruise leader is supposed to design a scientific …
Braving the stormy seas
Text and photos: Mariana da Silveira Ramos Esteves, Follow Mariana on Twitter for more Arctic …
Chief Scientist’s Diary: Jochen Knies
October 21, 2019: Sea sickness medication is distributed. We reached the first station in the …
Ready, set, go! Next stop – Vestnesa Ridge in the Fram Strait
Text and photos: Mariana da Silveira Ramos Esteves, Follow Mariana on Twitter for more Arctic …
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Take the tour: Research Vessel Kronprins Haakon
On the 18th October, there was a sense of excitement in the air as scientists …
Chief Scientist’s Diary: Jochen Knies
The state-of-the-art icebreaker RV Kronprins Haakon is currently deployed to the Arctic – Atlantic …