Hydro International - September/October 2019

COVER STORY:

On 20 September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern left Tromsø, Norway, for what could be the biggest Arctic research expedition of all time. Once she reaches the destination, the ship and her crew will become trapped in the ice and spend an entire year drifting through the Arctic Ocean.

This issue contains the following articles:

• Interview with the New Director General of the French Hydrographic Offi ce
• A Strategic Partnership of Specialists
• Mapping Submarine Groundwater Discharge with Thermal Infrared Imaging
• Using USVs for Bathymetric Dam Imaging
• As Greenland’s Glaciers Melt, Denmark Charts the Changing Waters
• USV Completes First Autonomous Circumnavigation of Antarctica
• Surveyors Discover World War One Submarine