the Southern Ocean will take place aboard Polarstern in Cape Town. The scientists aboard the French and German research vessels Marion Dufresne and Polarstern will meet South African partners to exchange [...] Federal research minister Dr Annette Schavan will attend the workshop.

The next Polarstern expeditionOn February 6, Polarstern will leave for the next Antarctic expedition under the leadership of Dr Eberhard [...] Press release
Federal research minister aboard the research icebreaker Polarstern.

In the Southern Ocean, large quantities of surface-drifting plankton algae are able to significantly reduce the carbon

Polarstern in the shipyard Sampling onboard 'Jean Floch' Membrane-Inlet Mass Spectrometer Polarstern in the Greenland Sea Gas mixing system ANCA SL 20-20 Mass spectrometer Shipgoing MIMS on Polarstern [...] Arriving with Polarstern in Spitsbergen The coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi Stock cultures of isolated algae Cells growing in experimental bottles Polar bear watch Light microscopy The AWIPEV Base Skidoo

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"Polarstern” begins new iron fertilization experimentOn January 21, 2004, the "Polarstern", research vessel of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute of Polar and Marine Research [...] in global climate warming.Planctonic algae consume carbon dioxidIn 2000, scientist aboard "Polarstern" were already able to demonstrate that fertilizing the Southern Ocean with iron sulphate causes [...] dioxide, once it has been moved from the air into the water, remains in the ocean. Previously, "Polarstern" was never on site for long enough to observe the continuing process. This will be different

to make flights to the still drifting Polarstern. The expedition in numbers

From 13 December 2019 to 27 February 2020, the Transpolar Drift carried Polarstern a total distance of 672 kilometres; however [...] destination, and finally, at 12:20 pm (CET) on Friday, 28 February, dropped anchor 970 metres from Polarstern, moored to the same floe. While the handover is in full swing on the MOSAiC floe, in Russia another [...] as the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute has reported: on 24 February Polarstern’s drift took her to 88°36’ North, just 156 kilometres from the North Pole. Never before had a ship

day. During the time that the Polarstern is passively drifting with the ice, the consumption will be as low as 15 tonnes of diesel per day. This means that the Polarstern’s total diesel consumption for [...] standards. Modern Arctic and climate research is not possible without the use of large vessels like Polarstern and the other icebreakers taking part. Minimi- sing the environmental impact on this fragile region [...] environmentally friendly method of conduc- ting research with an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean. The Polarstern is carried by the natural ice drift, pushed on by the wind. This does not cost anything and is

PS110 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 20 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
According to the schedule Polarstern left Bremerhaven at high tide and in tight fog on 20th December, 2017. On board are 44 crew members [...] exceptional late start of the transit cruise to Cape Town because of the long dockyard time of Polarstern, the number of scientists during leg PS110 is relatively low. This results in a tight cruise schedule [...] coming along with gale-force winds of 7 to 8 Bft. The related swell of up to 3 m does not affect Polarstern too much so that we can fully enjoy the roast Christmas goose in the mess lovingly decorated by

group leader on board. (To be used for freight to Polarstern. Delivery via AWI-Warehouse Bremerhaven) AWI Operations & Research Platforms, POLARSTERN Expeditions, Freightlabel Version 2015-02 [...] ABC123 Sender / Consignor: University Knuffingen Mail@Uni-Knuffi.de Recipient / Addressee: RV "POLARSTERN" Attn.: (Name of recipient on board) How to… The ID-Nr. here and at the freight list must be identical [...] Muster ID-Nr.: ABC123Responsible person. Can be identical with recipient. Recipient / Addressee: RV "POLARSTERN" Attn.: (Name of recipient on board) Sender / Consignor: University Knuffingen Mail@Uni-Knuffi

used for non-containerized general cargo at Polarstern.) AWI Operations & Research Platforms, POLARSTERN Expeditions, General Cargo Label Version 2016-02 Polarstern: Stückgut (Non-containerized general cargo)

Weekly Report No 1 | 13 - 15 April 2019
On Monday, 15th of April 2019, at 13:48 local time RV POLARSTERN left her mooring at position C in front of the harbour of Punta Arenas for a 3-day transit toward [...] the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
Ahead of the departure for her 119th expedition, RV POLARSTERN had a week of mooring at different positions in the harbour of Punta Arenas to fulfil various logistic [...] vessel and her crew had to master were directed by harbour logistics. The previous cruise with RV POLARSTERN had to arrive earlier than planned but the vessel had to stay on an outer mooring as the only

Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as usual – materials and fuel to the Antarctic. However, due to the coronavirus [...] Bremerhaven. They will leave from the homeport on 20 December 2020, and sail non-stop on board Polarstern to Atka Bay in the Antarctic. There, from the mooring at the ice edge, passengers and supplies [...] the Antarctic,” explains Heitland, who will be in charge of the journey to the Antarctic on board Polarstern and will also take over as head of the expedition at the Neumayer Station. Over the past year,