• How is climate change affecting fauna in the Arctic?

      biogeochemists will embark on a joint expedition headed for Svalbard. On board the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) all of

    • Underway observations

      PS106/1 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 24. - 30. May 2017
      On May 24, 2017 at 12:00 Polarstern has departed for the Arctic Expeditions in summer 2017.

    • Week 2 at the ice floe

      online and off-line instrumentation (high volume and size-resolved samplers), was installed on Polarstern on the upper deck to measure in-situ atmospheric aerosol physical-chemical properties.

    • Adventure in the Ice

      The MOSAiC Expedition
      Two-and-a-half years from now, the research vessel Polarstern will depart on an adventurous expedition. For an entire year, the ship will drift through the Arctic, stuck in the

    • Week 5: From Longyearbyen around Svalbard

      nary physical, biological and biogeochemical partners, wales and seals occasionally approached Polarstern.

    • Week 7: In the deep Arctic Ocean

      PS106/2 - Weekly Report No. 7 | 2 - 9 July 2017
      During our northward transect, Polarstern bit its way through heavy sea ice, hard as concrete and covered with a thick layer of snow. This altogether

    • Week 8: Returning to Svalbard

      2017
      After concluding our 4 th ice station at the northernmost location of this expedition, Polarstern set a south-westerly course, heading for the position of our well-known PASCAL ice floe of PS 106/1 [...] mostly gentle passage through the ice. Our journey was inter-spaced with stations where we set out Polarstern’s rubber boats Laura and Luisa to sample the surface microlayer, conducted CTD casts and performed

    • Finally, we are let loose

      departed from Tromsø and enjoyed the marvellous weather. The sun was shining from a blue sky while POLARSTERN passed the fjords towards the North-Atlantic. Finally, we are let loose. In particular, the newbies

    • Expedition „ROBEX-DM“

      PS108 - Weekly Report No. 1. | 22 - 28 August 2017
      On Tuesday August 22 at 19:00 POLARSTERN left Tromsö with an unusual freight on board into direction of Svalbard. Unusual, because 10 of the 40 scientists

    • The forerunners of Greenland

      Report No. 1 | 12 - 17 September 2017
      In the evening of 12 September the research icebreaker R/V Polarstern left the port of Tromsø (Norway). On board there are scientists from seven nations who cover the