Jami Tarris / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) on ice floe, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Heike Odermatt / Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on ice floe, Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard, Norway

Heike Odermatt / Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on ice floe, Hinlopen Strait, Svalbard, Norway

Heike Odermatt / Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) on ice floe, Svalbard, Norway

Heike Odermatt / Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) climbing on ice floe, Svalbard, Norway

Heike Odermatt / Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) on ice floe, Magdalenefjorden, Svalbard, Norway

Ingo Arndt / Shadow from icebreaker research ship, Polarstern, on ice floe. Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Ingo Arndt / "CTD" (instrument for collecting water samples from all water depths) at work 50 km from the ice floe base. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute; Bremerhav...

Ingo Arndt / Researcher Gerhard Dieckmann checking samples from sediment trap. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebreaker Polarstern was...

Ingo Arndt / Crack in ice floe in front of icebreaker ship Polarstern. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebreaker Polarstern was driftin...

Ingo Arndt / Graphic from "ice thickness profile" of the (ISPOL) ice floe. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebreaker Polarstern was dri...

Ingo Arndt / Samples from sediment trap. ISPOL (ICE Station Polarstern) Expedition 2004/2005 from Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. The Icebreaker Polarstern was drifting for five weeks with an ice f...