Taking you out to the middle of the Arctic Ocean, where the MOSAiC expedition aims to revolutionise Arctic climate science. Each short episode begins with a single question. The answer weaves between the voices of scientists on board. Recording, production and music by Sam Cornish, a PhD student at the University of Oxford. This is a MOSAiC School outreach project, supported by IASC, MOSAiC, AWI, ARICE and APECS.
The M in the MOSAiC acronym stands for multidisciplinary, but why is there such an emphasis on this expedition being multidisciplinary? In this episode we take a look at some of the specific science questions that benefit from a multidisciplinary approach.
MOSAiC has been years in the planning. But do the scientists involved expect it to go to plan? I asked participants of Leg 1 of the expedition, and their words serve as fascinating context for the changes since then. At the end I give an update on how plans have been remade due to Coronavirus. You can keep up to date with the MOSAiC expedition on this live web app: https://follow.mosaic-expedition.org/ and find stories from across the media on the MOSAiC website: https://mosaic-expedition.org/.
The icebreaking research vessel Polarstern is frozen in the Arctic sea ice for a whole year, and scientists on board are working hard to collect as much observational data as possible. But why do we need observations in the Arctic? I asked scientists on board.
MOSAiC is the biggest scientific project yet undertaken in the Arctic, but how exactly will it work? I asked the people making it happen.
The MOSAiC expedition aims to revolutionise Arctic climate science. It also has a catchy name, but what does it actually stand for? I asked the scientists on board the MOSAiC expedition if they knew...
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