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Nature 448, 517 (2 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448517a; Published online 1 August 2007

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The first Westerner invited to spend time on a Russian drifting station contemplates his eight-month voyage to the North Pole.

On 29 August, Jürgen Graeser of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany, will embark on an eight-month Russian-led voyage on a d rifting ice floe to the North Pole. The German will join 35 Russian colleagues from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersburg, Russia, to collect a wealth of atmospheric and sea-ice data in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions of the planet.