PS115.2 Wochenbericht Nr. 1 | 03.09. – 09.09.18
Monday (03.09.18). Since early Monday morning “Polarstern“ is anchoring in the Isfjorden, directly off Longyearbyen, and waiting for the new crew and the

Filchner Depression. Net and water samples as well as short sediment cores kept all research groups on Polarstern busy 24 hours a day.

and Terror Gulf completing two more stations. Another highlight were curtesy visits between the Polarstern and the Argentinian vessel Almirante Irizar.

x 25 km, ice thickness: 100 to 600 m). In 2016, we reached the glacier’s calving front with R/V Polarstern —the first research vessel ever to do so—and discovered an astonishingly rapid inflow of warm Atlantic

Press release

Press release

Press release

Bremerhaven and Kiel and their international partners discovered this unique hotspot of life during a POLARSTERN expedition and now report their findings in the journal Nature Communications . They stress the

multi-disciplinary teams. The infrastructure we are using are AWI’s airborne platforms Polar 5/6 and Polarstern, the permanent and summer stations Neumayer III and Kohnen, ice and clean room laboratories, ice

Training program: International guest scientists Ship-based training with e.g. RV Heincke or RV Polarstern Transferable skills courses Career workshops and information events Financial support for: Continuing