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International
Ice-Climate
Education 2007
Arved Fuchs Youth
Expedition
Arved Fuchs (53) from Bad
Bramstedt presented his latest project in Hamburg today. The expedition
leader’s next destination this summer will be the archipelago Spitsbergen
in the North Atlantic. This year is The International Polar Year (IPY)
and Fuchs is carrying out an international youth camp in the community of
Longyearbyen, which he initiated together with scientists from Hamburg.
The camp carries the title “Ice
– Climate – Education” and will offer young people the opportunity of
getting an actual, on the spot picture of climatic problems.
 Students
from five nations (Germany, Denmark Norway, Czech Republic and China) have
taken part in a competition under the motto “Climate and the Arctic” and
have qualified themselves for a participation in the youth camp on Spitsbergen.
Following their one-week experience, the students will return to their
schools as “Ambassadors of the Arctic” and will then encourage long-term
projects at their schools. A total number of fourteen young people will
participate in the camp, which is being sponsored by the specialist for
outdoor activities – Jack
Wolfskin. At
the same time, the camp will carry the
YouthXChange
logo. The camp represents an UNEP initiative, especially for young people.
Following the youth camp, Arved Fuchs and his expedition ship the “Dagmar
Aaen” will venture to the ice-edge in order to take rather extensive
readings.
Dr. Dirk Notz, from the Max-Planck-Institute, will be on board and plans,
with the use of a sonde, to take constant readings of the characteristics
of the ocean water near the surface. All of these readings will then be
evaluated by the Institute of Oceanography (IfM) at the University of
Hamburg.
In addition to this, Fuchs will attempt to find traces of the German
Arctic Expedition, which took place in 1912/1913. The German Polar
explorer Herbert
Schröder-Stanz
undertook a preliminary expedition to Spitsbergen
in 1912, together with seven other expedition members. All eight members
died. This German Arctic expedition poses one of the greatest puzzles of
German Polar history. Arved Fuchs is setting out in the hope of finding
clues to why this expedition failed.
On Tuesday, June 12th 2007 Arved Fuchs, the Polar expert from
Bad Bramstedt, will put to sea with his ship the “Dagmar Aaen”from the
Museum Harbour in Flensburg on a direct course to Spitsbergen. |
