Icebreaker Oden & Rachel arrive in Longyearbyen!

Pratt Lab PhD student Rachel Kirpes arrives in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway on the Swedish icebreaker Oden after the open ocean cruise from Helsingborg, Sweden!

@rmkirp: Caught a pic of Oden, my home for the next two months for #ArcticOcean2018 while enjoying a day on land in Longyearbyen before heading (further) north.

DOE ARM Early Career Press Release

FOUR NEW DOE EARLY CAREER RESEARCH PROGRAM AWARD WINNERS PLAN TO USE ARM MEASUREMENTS

Summer Group Celebration!

Tonight we celebrated our research success with the Ault Lab!

Icebreaker Oden safety training in the Helsingborg News!

Pratt Lab PhD student Rachel Kirpes is currently in Helsingborg, Sweden on the Swedish Icebreaker Oden preparing instrumentation for the Arctic Ocean 2018 cruise! As part of this, she participated in survival training that involved jumping in the ocean in full safety gear.

Helsingborg News Article:

Rachel ready to jump off the icebreaker!

Icebreaker fire hose training!

Summer Group Photo!

Back row: Stephen McNamara, Dr. Peter Peterson, Rachel Kirpes, Jeff Spencer, Dr. Qianjie Chen
Front row: Prof. Kerri Pratt, REU student Savannah Haas, Jamy Lee, Kathryn Kulju, Dr. Jun Liu
Missing: DRISE student Jasmine Mumpfield, undergrad Claire Mattson

MOSAiC press release and video!

With funding through a DOE Early Career Award, the Pratt Lab will participate in the historic international MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) campaign aboard the German icebreaker Polarstern in the high Arctic from Sept. 2019 - Oct. 2020! Here are recent press releases, articles, and a new video about MOSAiC:

June 2018 AWI MOSAiC Expedition Video Trailer
June 2018 Alfred Wegener Institut Press Release "An Entire Year Trapped in the Arctic Ice"
Oct. 2017 The Atlantic news article "A Year on Ice"
Feb. 2017 BBC News audio clip "Why scientists want their boat to get stuck in Arctic ice"
Feb. 2017 BBC News article "Ice-locked ship to drift over North Pole"