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London / Bremerhaven (dpa) - Verena Mohaupt (37), an employee of the Bremerhaven Alfred Wegener Institute (Awi), is one of the ten people who played a decisive role in science in 2020 for the specialist magazine "Nature".
Mohaupt was the logistics manager of the "Mosaic" expedition.
The research vessel “Polarstern” drifted through arctic waters for about a year, docked on a huge ice floe.
Mohaupt made sure that the researchers could work safely on the ice - protected from polar bears, the cold and accidents, according to Nature.
"I didn't do the job alone, but worked in a team," said Mohaupt of the German press agency.
Together with her AWI colleague Bjela König, she developed a safety concept, tested work suits and planned the logistics for the measuring devices.
"We had to decide which hut is where on the ice floe, how much electricity we need for the devices, how much gasoline for the snowmobiles."
She was on board the “Polarstern” for almost nine months.
The corona crisis presented the expedition with unforeseen logistical challenges.
"We always had to improvise and reschedule."
But that also made the work exciting.
She is grateful that she was part of the mammoth project.