JAMSTEC Launches Japan’s First Arctic Research Vessel
and find solutions to various issues and environmental changes occurring in the Arctic region.Japan’s first research icebreaker will be deployed as an international research platform, focused on researching studies of meteorology, climate, and atmospheric chemistry, as well as changes in oceanic, atmospheric, and sea ice conditions
Ice Navigation: Every Voyage is Different
It’s late in the season so Captain Duke Snider, sailing on a resupply voyage from New Zealand to Antarctica, is expecting virtually no sea, just glacial ice.Snider has been an ice navigator for decades, and he has seen the ocean change, not just here in the polar south, but in Arctic waters as well.“Variability is much greater than in the past when we could expect an ice breakup to occur within a calendar week, year after year, whether it was the Arctic or the Antarctic,” he says. “Now, you have to look at each year individually and be more alert than ever before, particularly
February 2025
