• Peter Gerchow

    Peter.Gerchow@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-1509
    Barkhausenstraße 2, 27568 Bremerhaven

  • "Polarstern" back from Antarctic expedition

    Press release

  • 25 years of research in polar seas aboard the research vessel Polarstern

    Press release

  • 30 years of hard work in the services of research – the Alfred Wegener Institute celebrates the birthday of RV Polarstern

    Press release

  • 6_7_cruise_report_PS95.pdf

    cruises with RV Polarstern. 4 PS95 Abb.1: Kursplot der Polarstern-Expedition PS95.1+2 (s. doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.859019 und doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.859020) Fig. 1: Course track of Polarstern expedition PS95.1+2 [...] Lochte die Fahrtleitung für den zweiten Abschnitt. Polarstern verließ Las Palmas planmäßig am Nachmittag des 10.11.2015. Am 02.12.2015 lief Polarstern in Kapstadt (Südafrika) ein, die 95. Expedition endete [...] position as chief scientist for the second leg. Polarstern left Las Palmas according to schedule in the afternoon of 10 November 2015. On 2 December 2015 Polarstern arrived in Cape Town (South Africa) and the

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  • A full loaded vessel

    PS 117 - Weekly Report No 1 | 15 – 20 December 2018
    As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town on 15 December at 4pm, taking off for her 117th expedition to the Antarctic.

  • A stormy send-off

    No. 1 | 5 - 11 December 2021
    After a snowy Bremerhaven departure on Dec 5 th 2021 at 13:00, Polarstern made its way through the port, the locks and towards the English Channel.

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns

  • ARJEL

    same stations on an annual basis. Integrative field survey of the FramJelly project during the R/V Polarstern cruise PS126 (Graphic: Dmitrii Pantiukhin/AWI) How do jellyfish survive in the Polar Night? Which [...] gelatinous zooplankton during several campaigns: RV Heincke HE560 (2020), Walter Herwig WH440 (2020), Polarstern PS126 (FramJelly, 2021) expeditions and the AWIPEV project KOP183 (2022). Sampling for the ARJEL [...] communities. Part of the FramJelly team (collaboration between AWI, GEOMAR & JAMSTEC) onboard R/V Polarstern (PS126), with the towed camera system PELAGIOS from GEOMAR (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI) PhD students