wave to the crew and scientists standing on the open decks. Polarstern made fast at the bunker pier where we finally went on board. Polarstern made fast at the bunker pier where we finally went on board [...] PS116 - Weekly Report No. 2 | 19 - 25 November 2018
The arrival of Polarstern in the port of Las Palmas took a little longer, because the dedicated berth was occupied by another vessel. She drifted [...] three technicians who were waiting on the pier for several hours to start the planned 3D survey of Polarstern and almost got a sunburn while sitting on their boxes full of equipment until the vessel arrived

Expedition starts
Due to retarded work on the Polarstern the departure is delayed - On Sunday, 11 November 2018, the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport of Bremerhaven, bound for [...] kilometres, one of the largest ever observed – calved from the shelf. In early February 2019, the Polarstern will set out for this region, departing from Punta Arenas, Chile. More than 50 experts from 17 [...] Some of the biologists who were on board then will now try their luck again, this time on the Polarstern.

The calving of A68 has shifted the shelf front landwards. This retreat has had, and continues

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Over the previous six weeks, nearly 100 contributing [...] laboratory measurements on these Quaternary sediments.For the next three and a half weeks, the Polarstern will remain at the Lloyd Werft shipyards in Bremerhaven for routine maintenance and repairs. Once

Press release
Bremerhaven, 24 October 2014. The expedition on the research vessel Polarstern starting on Saturday, 25 October 2014 focuses on training early-stage researchers. On board, 22 PhD and Master's [...] Five AWI scientists will train the students during a nine-day voyage to Las Palmas before the Polarstern continues to the Antarctic via Cape Town for research work.

While still in Bremerhaven prior to [...] has not yet been conclusively proven.

Apart from this scientific work and training on board the Polarstern, the voyage from Bremerhaven to Cape Town provides the opportunity to calibrate instruments that

Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The present research icebreaker Polarstern has been in service since December 1982. 'Polarstern' has taken people and material to the Arctic and Antarctic Ocean, covering [...] management of the successor vessel to RV Polarstern as well as of the German Neumayer Station III in Antarctica for the period 2019 to 2025.

But even before RV Polarstern's successor goes into operation, Reederei [...] more than 67 circumnavigations of the globe at the equator.

Thanks to good maintenance and care, 'Polarstern' is still one of the highest-performance polar research vessels in the world and spends an average

Press release
Bremerhaven, 5 June 2014. On Friday evening, June 6, 2014, RV Polarstern will set sail for the Arctic Ocean. 52 scientific expedition participants, dispatched by institutions in five countries [...] regions in the Fram Strait. The first instruments are to be tested and installed during the current Polarstern expedition.

“I am happy that we are finally taking off,” said expedition leader Ingo Schewe. He [...] fact intended to set sail for the Arctic in mid-May. However, during routine maintenance of the Polarstern in Bremerhaven, signs of wear were discovered at the drive shaft bearings and that mandated replacement

conditions and increased food supply for seals in the course of our expedition with Polarstern,” reports Knust. Prior to RV Polarstern, AWI’s research aircraft Polar 6 was also in operation on the edge of the [...] release
Bremerhaven, 9 April 2014. After one and a half years in the Antarctic the research vessel Polarstern is expected back in its home port on 13 April. Apart from the crew and scientists on board, there [...] ice, oceanic currents and the biocoenoses on the last Antarctic cruise leg of the expedition.

Polarstern covered over 64,000 nautical miles in the past 18 months, which corresponds to about 120,000 kilometres

Press release
On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute [...] effects of climate change in the Arctic, from the surface ice floes down to the seafloor.
RV Polarstern will enter the sea-ice zone north of Spitsbergen. Covering two shallow regions on their way to [...] will improve awareness and understanding of climate change’s effects in the Arctic Ocean.

The Polarstern expedition, dubbed TRANSSIZ (Transitions in the Arctic Seasonal Sea Ice Zone), was initiated by

Press release
19th Arctic research expedition successfully concludedOn 13th October, Polarstern, research ice-breaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will return to B [...] deep sea and in the fjords of east Greenland, during two cruise legs.Into the deep with Victor 6000Polarstern left Bremerhaven on 22nd May, on course for the French port of Brest to collect the unmanned deep [...] 6000 was unloaded.Franco-German co-operationThe use of the French Victor 6000 on the German ship Polarstern is an excellent example of international scientific co-operation. Since the signing of a memorandum

Sunday 16th February at about midday, the Alfred Wegener Institutes’ (AWI) research ship, the “Polarstern” arrived back in Bremerhaven. The twentieth antarctic expedition ended a day earlier than planned [...] Supplies for the inland “Kohnen station” were also delivered to the Antarctic from this point. The Polarstern was part of a complex logistical network, this season, many scientists were tranported to the Antarctic [...] research vessel the “Meteor” on the 8th November 2002: at 11°N, 20°W where the “Meteor” met the “Polarstern”. The “Meteor’ was on its 55th expedition in the tropical Atlantic to investigate the interactive