Louis Whitcomb and Christopher McFarland and collaborators from 
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution conducted the first under-ice sea trials of their newly developed ‘Nereid Under-Ice’ (NUI) Underwater Robotic Vehicle on the month-long F/V Polarstern Expedition PS86 in July, 2-14. See weekly cruise reports, AGU Engineering Abstract, AGU Science Abstract. The team completed four NUI dives at 86°N 6°W, about 200 km North East of Greenland in the Arctic Ocean.
- http://www.awi.de/en/infrastructure/ships/polarstern/weekly_reports/all_expeditions/ps85_ps87_ark_xxviii/ps86/
- https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper21258.html
- https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper17743.html