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The TRANSDRIFT II expedition was carried out onboard the Russian research vessel Professor Multanovskiy from July 22 to October 16, 1994. Professor Multanovskiy departed from the port of St. Petersburg on July 22, headed for Kiel where the German scientific equipment was loaded on board. The next stop was the town of Murmansk for the purpose of customs declarations. From there Professor Multanovskiy sailed to the Laptev Sea along the Northern Sea Route via Dikson where the German scientists joined the expedition. Due to engine trouble in Dikson and very severe ice conditions in Vilkitskiy Strait – it being not even navigable for Russian nuclear icebreakers during August – the expedition arrived to the Laptev Sea on September 3, much later than anticipated.

After more than three weeks of successful research, Professor Multanovskiy left the Laptev Sea on September 26 with the support of the Russian icebreaker Vaygach. Customs declaration was once again carried out in Murmansk before the expedition headed back for Kiel where the ship berthed alongside the GEOMAR quay on October 16, 1994.

The primary objectives of the expedition were to investigate the pathways of river discharge by means of oceanographic, ecological, chemical, and sedimentological parameters and to differentiate the sediments and variability of the rivers flowing into the Laptev Sea during the Holocene. A comprehensive interdisciplinary working program was carried out at 102 stations between 10 and 55 m water depth.

The main target areas of the expedition were located in the eastern Laptev Sea, north of the Lena Delta, and in the Anabar-Khatanga Valley.

Here the expedition report can be downloaded.

The weekly reports can be found here.

 

The participants of the expedition:

Chief scientists

• Igor Dmitrenko, Arcitc and Antarctic Research Institute
• Heidemarie Kassens, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences

Meteorology

• Yulia Afanasyeva, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Mikhail Lamakin, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Valeriy Timachev, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Oceanography

• Vladimir Churun, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Igor Dmitrenko, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Pavel Golovin, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Alexandr Ipatov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Valeriy Karpiy, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Sergey Kolesov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Nikolay Lebedev, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Leonid Timokhov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Hydrooptics

• Andrey Anoshkin, Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute
• Ivan Ushakov, North-West Polytechnical Institute

Hydrochemistry

• Sergey Pivovarov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Marine chemistry

• Stefanie Schultz, Institute for Marine Research
• Christopher Strobl, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
• Jevgeni Teplitz, Monitoring of Arctic

Geochemistry

• Jens Hoelemann, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences

Geology

• Martin Antonow, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg
• Jonathan Dehn, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
• Veit Haase, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg
• Christian Hass, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg
• Bertram Heinze, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
• Heidemarie Kassens, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
• Martina Kunz-Pirrung, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
• Bernhard Peregovich, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
• Alexandr Yakovlev, All-Russia Research Institute for Minerals and Natural Resources of the World Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia)

Paleontology

• Holger Cremer, GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences

Biology

• Anatoli Novoshilov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Viktor Petryashov, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Satellite imaging

• Alexandr Golubov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Electronics

• Andrey Rumyanzev, Joint Enterprises, Mitas and Radex

Technician

• Sergej Neufeld