Seminar Ozean, Eis, Atmosphäre

Termin: 08.01.2002

Referent/in: Astrid Löwe, iup-Bremen

Title: Wintering over at Neumayer Station

The Alfred Wegener Institute Foundation for Polar and Marine Research operates the Neumayer Station in Antarctica, situated on the Ekström Ice Shelf near the Atka Bay at 70°39' S 8°15' W.
Hidden in ice and snow the station includes meteorological, geophysical and air-chemistry observatories and serves as a logistic base for summer expeditions. For maintenance and resaerch, nine people live and work continously for 13 to 15 months at the Neumayer Station. Nine month of that time, the only link of the winterers to the outside world is by telephone or the World Wide Web.
If you ever wanted to know, where winterers get fresh tomatoes from, how they find their way to work in the long polar night or why there is a phone box in Antarctica, then you should come to the talk. Besides some insights into the daily routine of living in one of the remotest parts of the earth, I will present main tasks of summer and winter seasons with a focus on air chemistry.