The icebreaker Oden is north of the 89th latitude and solid ice covers the sea. Some of the geologists on board the Oden are retrieving a sample of the sea bed using a technique called 'piston coring' and while their interest concerns the sediment deposits which make up the seabed itself, my interest is the microorganisms which have made a home in the Arctic mud.
Read the field report:
a76.dk/greenland_uk/north_uk/gr_n_expeditions_uk/lomrog_2012_uk/3_field-report.html