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From September 3 to October 10, 2014 the TRANSDRIFT XXII expedition to the Laptev Sea was carried out. On September 6, the 20 Russian and German participants (see photograph and list below) left the port of Arkhangelsk on board RV Viktor Buynitskiy.
All in all 31 stations were carried out. Four seafloor observatories were recovered and three seafloor observatories were deployed once again for one year. One observatory was deployed for a period from September 19 to 24.

The daily reports can be found here.

The expedition blog of TRANSDRIFT XXII can be found here.

 

The participants of the expedition:

• Ekaterina Abramova, Lena Delta Reserve
• Dorothea Bauch, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
• Stefan Buettner, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
• Alexandr Bulygin, N.N. Zubov Institute of Oceanography
• Aleksey Buinyi, St. Petersburg State University/POMOR
• Jens Hoelemann, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
• Markus Janout, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
• Bennet Juhls, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
• Heidemarie Kassens (German leader of the expedition), GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
• Liliya Khatmullina, St. Petersburg State University/POMOR
• Sergei Korsun, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS
• Irina Kryukova, Moscow State University
• Georgi Laukert, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
• Fedor Martynov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Matthias Monsees, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
• Olga Morozova, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Andrey Novikhin (Russian leader of the expedition), Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Mariya Petrova, St. Petersburg State University/POMOR
• Vasiliy Povazhnyy, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• Karen von Juterzenka, Kiel University