• Research

      collection, as well as extending them by new collections on board Polarstern . We are working on improving mobilization of taxon observation records backed up by voucher images (as well as by the physical

    • Bathymetry

      Madiba Sea Mount, south of South Africa, discovered 2013 with RV Polarstern Current-induced seabed structures at the Southern Mozambique Ridge Iceberg scours on the shelf north of Svalbard Contact Dr Boris

    • Information for Expedition Participants

      questionnaire This section does not apply to expeditions with Polarstern, Heincke, Uthörn, Mya II and Aade and participation in all land expeditions to the Antarctic (e.g. to Neumayer Station III and [...] Antarctica, the PI needs to obtain all necessary national permits. Polarstern Expedition participants: Polarstern-Wiki EIS - Expedition Interface System EIS - General info and wiki Deadlines 360 degr. tour Map of Polarstern General arrangement plan Clothing list Polarstern is available for participants in EIS (see above) Heincke Heincke-Expedition HE

    • NoSoAT

      conduct its fifth training expedition on board its icebreaker RV Polarstern, Germany's largest research vessel. We are offering 20 training scholarships and, for the first time, 5 scholarships for junior [...] NoSoAT) and South-North (SoNoAT) transits of the icebreaker RV Polarstern. All 25 successful scholars will be divided into five groups. These groups of five will rotate through all topics during the cruise

    • Christian Haas

      MOSAiC-Expedition. jpg | 366 KB Portrait of Christian Haas next to Polarstern, jpg | 747 KB Media DW (Video) | 08.08.2020 On thin ice: The Arctic and earth's climate Find out more > DW | 05.05.2020 Polarstern

    • Schedules

      Schedules Ships Timetables Polarstern Auf zur Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific coordinator (Dr. Ingo Schewe) 2026 2027 plan Antarctica InSync

    • The grand finale to the expedition of a century

      Central Arctic, this Monday, 12 October, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Accompanied by a ‘welcome committee’ of ships that came to greet, the ship entered the

    • Technology

      al. Ocean Science 2016) Automatic filtration system on board Polarstern (Photo: Katja Metfies)

    • Ceilometer

      CL51 ( VAISALA , Finnland) was mounted on the monkey deck of Polarstern. It is able to measure cloud heights and vertical backscatter profiles. Short, powerful laser pulses are sent out in a vertical

    • The latest findings on the MOSAiC floe

      of the MOSAiC floe: the sea ice in which the research vessel Polarstern is now drifting through the Arctic was formed off the coast of the archipelago, which separates the East Siberian Sea and the