A Polar Expedition To The Top Of The World: Part 2

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

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Our journey continues on MOSAiC: the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate. Physicists, chemists, and biologists are all working to understand more about why Arctic ice is diminishing, and what it means for the planet. In this episode, Reporter Ravenna Koenig introduces us to some scientists, what they're studying, and life aboard a floating research center. You can find photos from her trip here. Follow Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia or Ravenna @vennkoenig. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:05.9	Maddie Sifai here.
0:07.3	Today, the second of our two-part adventure to the middle of the Arctic Ocean, where scientists
0:12.7	are freezing a ship into the ice for a year to study how the region is changing.
0:18.5	On Friday, we talked about how the expedition tracked down their hard-to-find piece of ice,
0:23.1	and today we'll be talking about what happened once they found it.
0:26.8	Reporter Raveta Keneig is our guide, Hey, Ravana.
0:29.4	Hey, Maddie.
0:30.2	And would you just remind us the mouthful name of this thing?
0:33.5	Sure.
0:34.6	It's called the multidisciplinary drifting observatory for the study of Arctic climate or mosaic.
0:41.5	I guess, um, dozeic.
0:43.8	Did not have the same ring.
0:45.7	I guess not.
0:47.3	So you're back on land in Seattle now, but you joined this expedition for five weeks as it left
0:53.0	a port in Norway.
0:56.4	There's that horn.
0:57.6	There's that horn.
0:58.8	And it sailed up north.
1:00.3	That's right.
1:01.0	And on board, we're scientists from all kinds of fields of study, all joining forces to undertake
1:05.8	the most comprehensive look at Arctic sea ice in 20 years.
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