Julia Warley / Sales Manager / Vaisala / Helsinki, Finland Photos: Mika Kalakoski/FINNARP Vaisala’s automatic weather station Vaisala on board contributed to a the Russian Russian research expedition, which research vessel studied the changes in the Arctic climate Akademik system and the Fedorov environment. ship was named after a Soviet polar Over 60 scientists worked on explorer, Evgeny Fyodorov, who board the Akademik Fedorov, which worked on the first Soviet manned can accommodate up to 172 passen- Jason Yuan / Application Manager / Vaisala / Shanghai, China drifting ice station, North Pole-1. gers. The on-board science equip- The ship is owned by the Arctic ment included a Vaisala HydroMet™ and Antarctic Research Institute, St. System MAWS110 automatic weather Petersburg. station, and radiosounding equip- The expedition was the biggest in ment for environmental observa- Russia in 2008 within the frame- tions. work of the International Polar Year 2007/2008. It studied the changes In fall 2008, the Russian Federal in the Arctic climate system and Service for Hydrometeorology and the environment. Extensive studies Environmental Monitoring (Roshy- included a series of experiments and dromet) conducted a research research into the processes in the expedition in the Arctic basin and ocean, sea ice and atmosphere. The the Arctic seas under the name expedition also estab- Arctic-2008. Akademik Fedorov, lished a new drifting the 140-meter-long diesel-electric research station flagship of the Russian polar research called North fleet was used for the expedition. The Pole-36. 179/2009 27.