• "Polarstern" back from Antarctic expedition

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    • Winter in the Antarctic: "Polarstern" comes home

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    • Twentieth “Polarstern” expedition to Arctic is drawing to a close

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    • German research vessel Polarstern discovers abandoned Russian station on ice floe

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    • Bär/Eicken: "The research vessel Polarstern is changing our understanding of the world's oceans"

      After 183 days in the Antarctic, the research vessel Polarstern returned to its home port today, 15 May. She was welcomed in Bremerhaven in the presence of Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär and the [...] Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Hajo Eicken. From its voyage, the Polarstern is bringing back important findings on the causes of the recent sea ice retreat in the Antarctic

    • Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

      available. A successor to the Polarstern is also planned. Polarstern App Polarstern Chronicle News Polarstern (Photo: Jan Rohde ) News from aboard will be available in the Polarstern app. Here you can download [...] Research ice breaker Polarstern An Icon of German Polar Research The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute [...] Scientific coordinator: Dr. Ingo Schewe Polarstern-App Project proposal Cruise planning Info for expedition participants Expedition programs Publications about Polarstern Raw data in Pangaea Well equipped

    • Polarstern longterm cruise planning

      Transits and Campaigns - Antarctic Contact Scientific Coordinator RV Polarstern Dr. Ingo Schewe E-Mail 0471 / 4831-1737 Polarstern longterm plan Transits and Expeditions - Antarctic 2023/2024 PS140; Project: [...] POLARSTERN long-term expedition planning This page provides an overview of all the main-user applications considered in the expedition planning so far. Potential secondary-user applicants please contact

    • Detlef Wilde

      polar research: New Polarstern Detlef Wilde, project director for the construction of the new Polarstern at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Research vessel Icebreaker Expedition New Polarstern The Research Vessel [...] status of the procurement procedure for the new Polarstern is expected in 2024. The handover of the completed ship is slated for 2027. The new Polarstern will make it possible for researchers from around [...] generations. The requirements profile reflects the lessons learned over the Polarstern’s nearly 40 years of service. The new Polarstern will be capable of operating under changing ice and weather conditions

    • Chronicle

      crew of the Polarstern even frees a British research ship trapped in the pack ice. Polarstern in the waters off Greenland (Photo: Hannes Grobe) Operations 1982-1989 9 December 1982 – RV Polarstern is taken [...] amounted to 188 million marks (over 96 million euros). Contruction of Polarstern (Photo: Klaus von Bröckel) Construction of Polarstern II Data June 1979 – The invitation to tender for construction of the [...] in Kiel 25.01.1982 named „Polarstern“ 9. Dezember 1982 by German Federal Ministe r for Research Heinz Riesenhuber Construction period The new research icebreaker Polarstern’s first journeys take her to

    • Landmark in Antarctica named after AWI researcher

      During the last Antarctic season, British Polarstern expedition members Dr. Robert D. Larter and Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a new landmark in the Southern [...] Southern Ocean with one of the Polarstern helicopters. This cape is named in honour of the late AWI geologist Christian Hass.