Isolated From The Coronavirus — And The Rest Of The World — On An Arctic Expedition

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April 29th, 2020

Scientists working as part of the Mosaic expedition, a big international research project to study the Arctic, have been “very well-insulated from the coronavirus,” said Chris Marsay, a research associate at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. Still, they worry about family and friends and wonder about the “completely different way of life” back at home.

Esther Horvath / Alfred-Wegener-Institute

There’s a place where people still gather to eat and to hang out after work. A place where everyone knows they don’t have the coronavirus.

It’s a research ship, full of scientists, trapped in the ice in the Arctic.

The Mosaic expedition is a big international research project to study the Arctic. For a year, scientists from countries all over the world are taking turns living in a German icebreaker while the ship drifts in the ice.

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