Nils Haëntjens, research assistant professor in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, has just returned from a two-week trip to the North Pole to study phytoplankton distributions in relation to sea ice properties on-board the cruise vessel Le Commandant Charcot.  The vessel, which is also an ice breaker, was on its first voyage with passengers read more Haëntjens returns from studying phytoplankton-sea ice interactions in North Pole