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Polar researcher on her work in the Arctic: "The ice is thinner"

2021-01-30T19:34:56.807Z


The scientist Ellen Damm studies the climate crisis in the Arctic. Here she tells how many pairs of socks she wore on her last mission and how to remove a core from an ice floe.


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Ellen Damm, 63, is a biogeochemist.

As part of the Mosaic expedition on the »Polarstern«, she examined gases that were frozen in the Arctic ice.

For a few months she was co-chief of the expedition.

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Research in the dark: a drill core is removed here.

Photo: Esther Horvarth / AWI

Source: spiegel

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