The said bay is surrounded by a glacier on one side, by arctic tundra, hills, and marshes on the other, and separated by a narrow gravel-sand spit from the sea. In the water body, which does not yet have an official place name and is called the conditional name of Eidembukta Bay, the researchers performed bottom topographic measurements using acoustic methods, measured the main water characteristics (salinity, temperature, etc.), collected samples of plankton and bottom fauna, and filmed the bottom with a remote underwater camera . Environmental DNA and gas exchange studies have also been carried out using modern molecular and biogeochemical methods.
A group of seven researchers lived in a tent for a week. The team members took turns to be on duty every night, keeping an eye out for polar bears, the real hosts of those places. Team leader prof. Sergej Olenin says he is grateful to God for seeing the white hosts only on the last day of the expedition and at a safe distance.
Part of the research material collected during the expedition has already been brought to MRI KU and is being prepared for laboratory analysis, while another part is still being transported to Gdańsk, to the IO PAN, by the vessel Oceania and will reach the Institute at the end of September.