Media Coverage

The following articles, news releases, blogs, and videos were published about the MOSAiC field campaign.

Media Coverage

• Yale Climate Connections
  “Aboard MOSAiC: Hardy fish, powerful waves, shrinking ice floes”
  April 13, 2022
  “Baked by midsummer sun, Arctic sea ice could face worst losses on record”
  July 20, 2020
  “MOSAiC researchers adapt to the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic and extreme Arctic conditions”
  May 21, 2020
  “Key readings about MOSAiC, an Arctic laboratory locked in ice”
  April 16, 2020

• The Big Issue
  “A year in the Arctic investigating the climate crisis”
  December 22, 2021

• National Geographic (subscription required)
  “Under the spell of the ice and cold on an Arctic expedition”
  September 14, 2021

• Time
  “How Climate Change Science Has Changed Due to COVID-19 Restrictions”
  July 14, 2021

• The New York Times
  “Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ May Be Less Resistant to Global Warming”
  July 1, 2021
  “After a Year in the Ice, the Biggest-Ever Arctic Science Mission Ends”
  October 12, 2020
  “Coronavirus Interrupts, but Doesn’t End, an Arctic Research Expedition”
  April 24, 2020
  “Coronavirus Restrictions Force Cancellation of Arctic Research Flights”
  March 16, 2020
  “Impact of Coronavirus Is Felt on an Arctic Science Expedition”
  March 11, 2020
  “Endless Night at -50 Degrees: A Look at Life on an Icebreaker”
  February 7, 2020
  “Stuck in Arctic Ice, Dodging Polar Bears. All for Science.”
  November 22, 2019
  “Searching for a Rectangular Sun Above the Arctic Circle”
  October 28, 2019
  “Scientists on Arctic Expedition Choose Ice Floe That’ll Be Home for a Year”
  October 4, 2019
  “Scientists Prepare to Drift With Arctic Ice for a Year to Study Climate Change”
  September 19, 2019

• InsideClimate News
  “New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North”
  June 23, 2021
  “The Largest Arctic Science Expedition in History Finds Itself on Increasingly Thin Ice”
  May 17, 2020

• Coloradan Alumni Magazine
  “Frozen in Ice, Frozen in Time”
  March 18, 2021

• Audubon
  “Scientists Braved the High Arctic to Chase Clouds on History’s Largest Polar Trip”
  Winter 2020 issue

• Nature
  “The best science images of 2020”
  December 2020
  “These researchers spent a winter trapped in Arctic ice to capture key climate data”
  May 22, 2020
  “Coronavirus shutdown forces research ship to break out of Arctic ice”
  April 24, 2020
  “Where I work: Transfixed by the glow of Arctic ice under starlight”
  March 30, 2020
  “Coronavirus crisis hits ice-locked Arctic research expedition”
  March 11, 2020
  “Trapped: why 300 scientists are locking themselves in Arctic ice”
  September 20, 2019

• EarthSky
  “2020 Arctic Report Card: Sea ice loss, extreme wildfires”
  December 22, 2020

• Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado)
  “MOSAiC Arctic expedition ends, but research is only beginning”
  December 20, 2020
  “CU grad Amy Richman’s ‘Into the Polar Night’ captures Arctic expedition in 360-degree film”
  August 22, 2020

• Discover Magazine
  “A Year in the Arctic: A Close-Up Look at the Biggest Ever Polar Expedition”
  December 15, 2020
  “Warmth Pouring Out of Siberia Sends Arctic Sea Ice Plummeting to Second Lowest Extent on Record”
  September 21, 2020

• Claims Journal
  “A Year of Heat and Fire Accelerated the Arctic’s Transformation”
  December 10, 2020

• Live Science
  “Dramatic transformation of the Arctic landscape may be permanent”
  December 6, 2020
  “How a research ship drifting near the North Pole avoided a coronavirus disaster”
  March 13, 2020
  “A Massive Icebreaker Ship Will Trap Itself in Arctic Sea Ice on Purpose. Here’s Why.”
  September 3, 2019

• “PBS NewsHour”
  “From north to south pole, climate scientists grapple with pandemic disruptions”
  December 4, 2020

• The Denver Channel
  “Scientists return from largest Arctic expedition with new climate knowledge, data”
  November 18, 2020

• New Hampshire Public Radio
  “Dartmouth Researchers Analyze Data From Arctic Expedition”
  November 6, 2020

• Hackaday
  “MOSAiC Project Freezes a Boat in the Arctic Ice Pack for Science”
  November 4, 2020

• UNILAD (United Kingdom)
  “Scientists Who Spent Year Exploring Arctic Say It Is ‘Dying’”
  October 19, 2020

• My Grande Prairie Now (Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada)
  “Grande Prairie-born researcher concludes research leg in Arctic Circle”
  October 19, 2020

• Cape Cod Times
  “Woods Hole scientist part of the MOSAiC expedition that spent a year researching Arctic ecosystem”
  October 15, 2020

• International Business Times (Singapore edition)
  “Arctic Is Dying: Scientists from World’s Largest Mission to North Pole Return With Dire Climate Warning”
  October 14, 2020

• Vice.com
  “Scientists Trapped In Ice for Past Year Return With a Dire Warning”
  October 13, 2020
  “Arctic Sea Ice Is Melting So Fast It Just Hit a Record Low”
  July 27, 2020
  “Scientists Are Stuck on an Ice-Locked Ship in the Arctic Due to Coronavirus”
  March 30, 2020

• E&E News
  “Curtain falls on history’s biggest Arctic expedition”
  October 13, 2020
  “Widening pandemic shuts down climate expeditions”
  March 23, 2020
  “Historic expedition finds a ‘new Arctic’”
  January 10, 2020
  Articles from the “Ice Bound” series:
  “‘Frightening.’ Scientists contemplate the melting Arctic”
  October 30, 2019
  “Scientists investigate how organisms survive ‘polar night’”
  October 29, 2019
  “Eyes overboard to gauge crunching ice for data set”
  October 24, 2019
  “Melting sea ice is ‘Atlantifying’ the Arctic”
  October 21, 2019
  “2 polar bears, a scrap of meat and a boatload of scientists”
  October 18, 2019
  “Homemade gadget reveals secrets of Arctic warming”
  October 16, 2019
  “Here’s what we’re reading in the Arctic”
  October 11, 2019
  “The most essential job on Arctic ice: ‘Polar bear guard’”
  October 10, 2019
  “How warming raised tensions on a ship in search of ice”
  October 8, 2019
  “Scientists pour onto the Arctic ice (so does their whiskey)”
  October 7, 2019
  “Arctic ship connects to ice as pole plunges into long night”
  October 4, 2019
  “It’s always daylight saving day on Akademik Fedorov”
  October 3, 2019
  “U.S. contributes millions to historic climate mission”
  October 2, 2019
  “In 1895, Arctic explorers left their frozen ship. Now a redo”
  October 1, 2019
  “To study the Arctic, scientists leave a CO2 footprint”
  September 30, 2019
  “‘We’re in the ice!’ Vessel shudders as it enters Arctic floe”
  September 27, 2019
  “It’s teatime in the Arctic, but there’s no Google”
  September 26, 2019
  “Arctic expedition launches after decade of planning”
  September 24, 2019
  “Phone warmers? Here’s what I packed for the Arctic”
  September 20, 2019
  “Our reporter boards an icebreaker for 6 weeks. Here’s why”
  September 18, 2019

• The Barents Observer (Norway)
  “Year-long, international Arctic science expedition comes to an end”
  October 13, 2020
  “Sea ice extent in the Arctic reaches historical low in July”
  July 28, 2020
  “MOSAiC international science expedition completes crew transfer in Central Arctic”
  December 19, 2019

• The Associated Press
  “Scientists return from Arctic with wealth of climate data”
  October 12, 2020
  “Virus delay, early ice melt challenge Arctic science mission”
  May 10, 2020
  “Arctic mission will trap scientists in ice to study climate”
  July 3, 2019

• BBC
  “German ship completes historic Arctic expedition”
  October 12, 2020
  “Arctic sea-ice shrinks to near record low extent”
  September 21, 2020
  “The icy camp where polar bears roam” (from BBC Future)
  November 6, 2019
  “The problem of thinning Arctic sea ice” (from BBC Future)
  October 23, 2019
  “The polar voyage being threatened by thin ice” (from BBC Future)
  October 15, 2019
  “Climate change: Polarstern leaves for ‘biggest ever’ Arctic expedition” (with video of the icebreaker R/V Polarstern leaving Tromsø, Norway)
  September 21, 2019

• RFI (France)
  “Biggest ever Arctic expedition returns with tales of ‘dying ice’”
  October 12, 2020

• Deutsche Welle (Germany)
  “German research vessel to return from ‘dying Arctic’”
  October 12, 2020

• dpa (Germany)
  “Arctic researchers warn of melting ice at end of mammoth mission”
  October 12, 2020

• Guardian News (Nambucca Heads, Australia)
  “Vessel returns from landmark Arctic voyage”
  October 12, 2020

• The Science Times
  “Researchers Complete Year-Long Expedition in the Arctic Ocean”
  October 12, 2020

• Euronews
  “World’s biggest Arctic expedition brings back 1000 ice samples to predict climate change”
  October 10, 2020

• The Local (Germany)
  “Biggest arctic expedition in history returns to Germany with sobering climate change discoveries”
  October 9, 2020

• WBUR.org (Boston, Massachusetts)
  “Researchers Wrap Up Largest Polar Expedition In History To Better Understand Climate Change”
  September 25, 2020

• Hydro International
  “MOSAiC Arctic Expedition Reaches North Pole”
  September 22, 2020
  “600 Researchers to Spend a Whole Year Trapped in the Ice”
  July 27, 2020

• CGTN (China)
  “MOSAiC: Inside history’s largest Arctic expedition”
  September 6, 2020

• CBC News (Canada)
  “Expedition to North Pole paints picture of Arctic climate change”
  August 30, 2020

• Science
  “Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice”
  August 25, 2020
  “Coronavirus concerns force Arctic mission to cancel research flights”
  March 16, 2020
  “How to erase a ship—Arctic researchers work to eliminate their vessel’s fingerprints”
  November 13, 2019
  “Arctic researchers will lock this ship in ice for a year to study the changing polar region”
  August 20, 2019

• Bloomberg Green
  “A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice”
  July 27, 2020

• HuffPost
  “One Year In Ice City: A Look Inside The World’s Largest Arctic Expedition”
  July 25, 2020

• Newsweek
  “Arctic to See ‘Savage’ Temperatures, ‘Tropical Nights,’ As Siberia Hits 95°F”
  July 22, 2020

• High North News (Norway)
  “MOSAiC Expedition Relief Ships Arrive In Svalbard, Awaiting Arrival of Polarstern”
  May 26, 2020

• The Colorado Sun
  “The largest Arctic science expedition in history finds itself on increasingly thin ice because of coronavirus”
  May 17, 2020

• Journal of the North Atlantic & Arctic
  “On A Groundbreaking 1893 Expedition Nansen Froze His Ship In Arctic Ice For A Year – Now MOSAiC Is Following His Path”
  May 14, 2020

• GeekWire
  “Catch her drift: UW sea ice scientist Maddie Smith set to embark on one-of-a-kind polar expedition”
  May 8, 2020

• NPR
  “There Is A Place With No Social Distancing And No Coronavirus”
  May 5, 2020
  “Scientists In Arctic Prepare To Return To Society On Lockdown”
  May 5, 2020 (heard on NPR’s Morning Edition)
  “Pandemic Delays Return Of Arctic Researchers”
  March 29, 2020
  “A Polar Expedition To The Top Of The World: Part 2”
  December 16, 2019
  “Polar Bears, Ice Cracks, And Isolation: Scientists Drift Across The Arctic Ocean”
  December 13, 2019
  “Studying The Ripple Effects Of Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice”
  November 10, 2019
  “Searching For Solid Ice As Scientists ‘Freeze In’ To Study A Warming Arctic”
  November 5, 2019
  “Researchers Are Freezing Their Ship Into Arctic Ice To Study Climate Change”
  October 4, 2019
  “To Better Understand The Arctic, This Ship Will Spend A Year Frozen Into The Ice”
  September 20, 2019
  “Scientists Will Deliberately Encase Their Ship In Arctic Sea Ice”
  September 19, 2019 (heard on NPR’s Morning Edition)

• The Washington Post
  “How a record-strong Arctic weather pattern aided a troubled Arctic research expedition”
  April 29, 2020
  “Scientists locked in ice planned for North Pole’s hazards. Then came the coronavirus.”
  March 25, 2020
  “Voyagers to the ‘epicenter of global warming’ struggle with bears, storms and thin ice”
  January 10, 2020
  “Scientists in historic Arctic expedition choose ice floe where they’ll spend the next year”
  October 4, 2019
  “The biggest Arctic expedition in history is launching for the North Pole”
  September 20, 2019
  “Adrift in the Arctic”
  June 10, 2019

• Science News
  “A year long expedition spotlights night life in the Arctic winter”
  April 8, 2020

• Smithsonian Magazine
  “Why the MOSAiC Expedition’s Research Is So Vital to Climate Change Research”
  April 2020 issue

• Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide
  “Coronavirus pandemic hits largest Arctic expedition as scientist tests positive despite showing no symptoms”
  March 19, 2020

• Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, Alaska)
  “A scientific expedition to the top of the earth”
  March 15, 2020

• Scientific American
  “Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole”
  March 13, 2020
  “Frozen Researchers Will Greatly Improve Arctic Weather Prediction”
  November 11, 2019
  “Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate Change”
  October 15, 2019

• The Maritime Executive
  “Icebreaker Needs Fuel After Record North Pole Voyage”
  March 4, 2020

• Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine
  “A day on the Polarstern: studying climate change up close”
  January 27, 2020

• Colorado Public Radio
  “On Thin Ice In The Arctic: CU Scientist Says Melting May Threaten Parts Of Historic Mission”
  January 13, 2020
  “The Next Great Arctic Expedition Will Rely On Fancy Science Sleds Built In Boulder”
  May 23, 2019

• Moscow-Pullman Daily News (Moscow, Idaho)
  “MHS grad breaks new ground in Arctic”
  January 12, 2020

• WCAI (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
  “MOSAiC Mission Aims to Paint More Complete Picture of Changing Arctic”
  December 16, 2019

• Popular Mechanics
  “Superfast High-Bandwidth Internet Just Reached the Arctic”
  November 16, 2019

• WTGS (Fox 28, Savannah, Georgia)
  “Local UGA Skidaway Institute scientist heads north for international research project”
  November 14, 2019

• CNN
  “‘It’s all quite devastating’: Documenting the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice”
  October 25, 2019

• Arctic Today
  “After finding its floe, a drifting Arctic research icebreaker settles in for polar night”
  October 7, 2019

• The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio)
  “Two Ohio State graduate students part of MOSAiC expedition to study climate change in Arctic”
  October 4, 2019 (registration required to view article)

• New Hampshire Union Leader (Manchester, New Hampshire)
  “NH researchers join expedition intent on becoming lodged in Arctic pack ice”
  September 25, 2019

• The Conversation
  “Scientists moor ship in Arctic ice for a year to better understand climate change”
  September 24, 2019

• Reuters
  “Arctic expedition to investigate ‘epicenter of climate change’”
  September 20, 2019

• Valley News (West Lebanon, New Hampshire)
  “Dartmouth scientists join Arctic research mission”
  September 20, 2019

• The Star (Toronto, Canada; article written by The Associated Press)
  “Scientists prepare for year-long expedition to Arctic centre”
  September 20, 2019

• BBC Science Focus
  “Year-long expedition departs for Arctic to study climate change”
  September 20, 2019

• NOVA Next (PBS)
  “Scientists are about to lock themselves into an Arctic ice floe for a year”
  September 17, 2019

• National Geographic
  “Scientists are about to spend a year trapped in Arctic ice”
  September 17, 2019

• The Week
  “Researchers are about to spend a year frozen in Arctic ice to study climate change”
  September 17, 2019

• CBS News
  “Scientists will face polar bears, isolation and darkness on Arctic mission to study climate change”
  September 16, 2019

• KBBI.org (Homer, Alaska)
  “Embedding in the Arctic Sea”
  September 15, 2019

• The Lantern (Ohio State University)
  “Ohio State Students Embark on Arctic Research Expedition”
  September 13, 2019

• The Guardian
  “How anchoring a ship to an ice floe will help fight climate change”
  April 13, 2019

Institutional Articles/Releases

• Alfred Wegener Institute
  “Deep insights into the Arctic of tomorrow”
  February 7, 2022
  “The grand finale to the expedition of a century”
  October 12, 2020
  “MOSAiC expedition reaches the North Pole”
  August 19, 2020
  “Time to Say Goodbye”
  July 31, 2020
  “Sea-ice extent in the Arctic at a historical low”
  July 27, 2020
  “Polarstern returns to MOSAiC floe”
  June 18, 2020
  “Alternative resupply plan for Polarstern now in place”
  April 24, 2020
  “Two New Records at the North Pole”
  March 2, 2020
  “This Evening Sees the Start of MOSAiC – the Greatest Arctic Research Expedition of All Time”
  September 20, 2019

• World Meteorological Organization
  “World Met Day rallies attention around the ocean”
  March 24, 2021

• New Security Beat (blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program)
  “Largest Polar Expedition Ever Seeks to Explain Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice”
  November 17, 2020

• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, Boulder
  “Epic Arctic Mission Ends”
  October 12, 2020
  “Into the Polar Night”
  August 18, 2020
  “Arctic Research Soars to New Heights”
  May 1, 2020
  “Escape to the Central Arctic”
  March 19, 2020
  “Fresh Food and Faces in the Distant Arctic Ocean”
  March 2, 2020
  “The First Big Storm”
  November 25, 2019
  “How to Park a Ship in Ice”
  September 24, 2019

• Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
  “Unique view into the “new Arctic”: International MOSAiC expedition successfully completed”
  October 12, 2020
  “Leipzig research balloon becomes important platform for Arctic atmosphere measurements in the international MOSAiC expedition”
  June 18, 2020
  “The Arctic atmosphere – a gathering place for dust?”
  December 9, 2019

• European Space Agency
  “MOSAiC Arctic expedition reaches North Pole”
  September 9, 2020
  “Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way”
  December 16, 2019

• 1663 (Los Alamos National Laboratory science and technology magazine)
  “To the Ends of the Earth”
  August 1, 2020

• NASA (Earth Expeditions blog)
  “An Active Arctic: Where Sea Ice Meets the Midnight Sun”
  July 24, 2020

• DFG (German Research Foundation)
  “DFG supports MOSAiC expedition in Arctic Ocean during coronavirus pandemic”
  May 5, 2020

• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  “Drifting through the ice on board a polar climate research vessel”
  May 5, 2020 (posted by Phys.org)

• National Science Foundation
  “Research expedition faces extreme conditions in fast-changing Arctic”
  April 23, 2020

• National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  “Arctic Research Expedition Likely Faces Extreme Conditions in Fast-Changing Arctic”
  April 20, 2020

• NASA Earth Observatory
  “Drifting With Broken Sea Ice”
  March 31, 2020

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  “One Laboratory’s Role in an Epic Arctic Campaign”
  November 21, 2019

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  “Cold, hard data: ORNL data scientists support historic Arctic expedition”
  October 25, 2019

• The University of Rhode Island
  “URI oceanographers to join largest Arctic science expedition in history”
  October 1, 2019

• Los Alamos National Laboratory
  “Los Alamos team sets sail for Arctic on year-long research expedition”
  September 23, 2019

• National Science Foundation/U.S. Department of Energy/CIRES
  “Epic Climate Science Mission Begins”
  September 20, 2019

• University of Alaska, Fairbanks
  “UAF researchers embark on an expedition frozen at sea”
  September 20, 2019

• Brookhaven National Laboratory
  “Scientists Prepare Ship for Mission Locked in Arctic Ice”
  September 20, 2019

• Colorado State University (Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering)
  “Merrily They’ll Float Along”
  September 6, 2019

Scientist Blogs/Articles

• “Blog posts from CIRES and CU Boulder scientists on the Arctic mission”
  This blog features updates from Leg 4 (May–August 2020), contributed by CIRES and University of Colorado, Boulder, experts including Jonathan Hamilton, a PhD student in aerospace engineering; Lianna Nixon, a photographer/videographer and PhD student in education; and Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator of the mission and a CIRES/NOAA atmospheric scientist.

• “Notes from the Field”
  Blogger Steven Fons, a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is making ground-based measurements of sea ice during MOSAiC

• “MOSAiC Expedition from the perspective of Gina Jozef”
  Jozef, from the University of Colorado, is blogging about unmanned aerial system flights to measure atmospheric properties such as temperature and wind

• Santa Fe New Mexican
  “Expedition drifts in the Arctic ice to study climate”
  Written by David Chu, operations manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  February 16, 2020

• “Four Months in the Arctic with MOSAiC”
  Matthew Shupe, the co-coordinating scientist for MOSAiC, wrote a journal entry for Reach the World after returning from the first leg of the expedition

• Matthew Shupe’s blogs for the American Geophysical Union
  Shupe is sending in updates as part of the “Postcards from a frozen icebreaker” series; first published October 16, 2019

• Brookhaven National Laboratory MOSAiC page
  Updates from Brookhaven ARM instrument mentors during MOSAiC; first update September 20, 2019

• “A Year in the Ice” series
  Updates from MOSAiC researchers and staff from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences; first update September 20, 2019

Video

• University of Colorado Research and Innovation Week
  This webinar features MOSAiC co-coordinator Matthew Shupe, educators who worked with MOSAiC scientists, and a videography team creating planetarium shows for the expedition
  October 14, 2020

• The Weather Channel
  During her rotation as a member of the MOSAiC expedition, photographer Esther Horvath captures the beauty of working in the darkness of the arctic winter
  February 27, 2020

• Reach the World
  Matthew Shupe talks with young students around the world about MOSAiC
  January 22, 2020

• Seeker: “The Largest Arctic Expedition Ever Is Freezing Itself in the Ice, Here’s Why”
  October 14, 2019

• MOSAiC Expedition FareWell Event from Norway
  September 20, 2019

• MOSAiC Press Conference
  September 20, 2019

Podcasts

• The IcePod
  The official podcast of the Year of Polar Prediction initiative to improve weather and sea-ice forecast in the Arctic and Antarctic; monthly episodes will feature a scientist involved with both the Year of Polar Prediction and MOSAiC