EventThe Tara Polar Station, a floating laboratory, left France’s port of Lorient on July 19 and will drift across the Greenland Sea, Barents Sea and Northern Polar Basin for one year. It will collect continuous measurements of sea‑ice thickness, temperature, salinity and, uniquely, data on how rising temperatures affect Arctic microbial communities.
The Tara Polar Station expedition will drift through the Arctic Ocean for a year, collecting long‑term data on how rising temperatures influence microbial life in the region.
The Tara Polar Station, a floating laboratory, has left France’s port of Lorient to drift with Arctic pack ice for over a year. Carrying instruments that measure sea‑ice thickness, temperature, salinity and ecosystem dynamics, its journey across the Greenland Sea, Barents Sea and Northern Polar Basin will supply continuous data critical for refining climate models and understanding polar change.
