Vagabond (Transarctique2024)

Transarctic 2025

Eric Brossier — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Science coordinator aboard the icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot from Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen) to Nome (Alaska), via the geographic and magnetic North Poles, from September 5 to 25, 2025.

Transarctic

Eric Brossier — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:00:00 GMT

Science coordinator on board Charcot from Alaska to Spitsbergen via North Pole. Read the blog.

Transarctic

Eric Brossier — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT

From September 6 to 26, 2024, some twenty scientists boarded the icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot for a crossing of the Arctic Ocean, from Nome (Alaska) to Longyerbyen (Svalbard) via the North Pole. They responded to a call for projects from ARICE (ships and platforms of opportunity) in cooperation with the PONANT company. We were four scientific coordinators to assist these researchers.

Opportunities to reach this central region of the Arctic are very rare, but the contribution of cruise ships to polar research raises hesitations and debates (read the CNRS opinion: Opportunity-driven campaigns: Ethical partnerships for scientific research? ).

Scientific work carried out during the Transarctic focused on : - thermohaline and biogeochemical properties of the Arctic Ocean - sea ice - marine ecosystems (pelagics, sea ice and bioaerosols) - the carbon cycle - the plastisphere - ship performance and structural response - ethnographic studies of polar scientific expeditions

An international team of researchers with complementary expertises: Maurizio Azzaro, Elena Adasheva-Klein, Leticia Barbero, Indiana Bruzac, Nicolas Cassar, Federico Citterich, Fuat Dursun, Francesco Filiciotto, Caroline Guilmette, Christian Haas, Ricarda Kluge, Jan Kubiczek, Alireza Merikhi, David Pearce, Alessandro Ciro Rappazzo, Elisabeth Rosselli, Franz von Bock und Polach, Shiye Zhao, Lixin Zhu.

See photos.

Inglefieldbukta

Eric Brossier — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT

Fifteen years after Vagabond's departure, I have the opportunity to see again Inglefield Bay. Emotions! France and I arrived in October 2004 for the first wintering. Our first daughter was born during the third wintering. And France was expecting our second daughter at the end of the fifth wintering! One day, the four of us will return to see the cradle of our family.