At 21.00 on September 20 of Norway, the German icebreaker Polarstern and the Russian icebreaker "Academician Fedenov" sounded their horns and set sail. From Tromso, Norway, all the way to the center of the Arctic ocean, they aimed to implement the MOSAiC project for arctic climate research, organized by the International Arctic Scientific Committee (IASC) and launched by the German Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). As one of the members of the Chinese delegation, Zuo Guangyu, a doctoral candidate from College of Electrical and Power Engineering at TYUT, started his journey to the North Pole with the Russian icebreaker "Academician Fedenov".
Dr. Zuo will install 16 sets of sea-ice temperature chain buoys developed by TYUT at the North Pole, and one set of unmanned arctic ice station jointly developed by TYUT and Polar Research Institute of China. The monitoring data will be transmitted to the data receiving platform at TYUT remotely and wirelessly. It is expected that Dr. Zuo will arrive at the North Pole in early October. After completing the installation and on-site observation tasks, he will return to China on November 3 with some Chinese researchers.
MOSAiC is the largest ever international arctic expedition. This is the first time that the Institute of Polar Engineering and Equipment of TYUT sent personnel to participate in the international joint scientific research, which is of great significance for the research achievements of TYUT to be recognized and promoted by the world peers in the future, and to provide reliable field data for international arctic scientists to study global climate change.
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Editor: Weiwei Wang
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