Eric presents an exploration of the Falkland Islands and, more generally, Hubert Sagnières' flight around the world, author of the book Daring French Explorations. At Dijon's Olympia cinema at 2:30pm on Saturday, October 5, 2024.

Round-table discussion Bringing the legacy of pioneering explorations to living lessons with Stéphane Dugast, Eric Brossier and Vincent Garrigues, at the Cellier de Clairvaux at 3:30pm on Saturday, October 5, 2024.

Launch of a new adventure award with La Guilde: the 15,000 euro “Voyages autour du Monde, avec Hubert Sagnières” bursary will reward adventure projects and explorations with a link to history, starting in 2025.

A polar bear Pompon offered to France and Eric by La Guilde to celebrate the 20 years of Vagabond's Arctic circumnavigation. Article by Olivier Mouchiquel in Pompon magazine nb12.

A one-day training course by Eric Brossier organized for TAAF (French Southern and Antarctic Territories) and IPEV (French Polar Institute) for personnel working on sea ice in the vicinity of the Dumont d'Urville station: safety on sea ice during scientific field work or light logistical operations.

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

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.

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.

Publication about the subglacial lake survey carried out at Devon Island in spring 2022: Misidentified subglacial lake beneath the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: a new interpretation from seismic and electromagnetic data.