• Port Warehouse

    Lloyd shipyard in immediate vicinity to the regular berth of "Polarstern" and other research and supply vessels. It offers a space of 4.800 m² for storage and handling purposes and an additional open [...] containers with expedition freight are handled. When loading Polarstern, between 2.500 and 3.000 packages are being lifted over the railing. The port warehouse is located in the Bremerhaven free-harbour

  • Iron limitation and cycling

    under current and future climate 12 berths on board the RV Polarstern in collaboration with Dr. Christel Hassler (Swiss Polar Institute) from 16 February 2016 to 8th April 2016 (PS97, ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean ecosystem exerts a disproportional control

  • CTD Instrument and Water Sampler

    with a CTD probe is being deployed from the research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The CTD is an oceanographic instrument used to determine electrical

  • 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

  • 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)