• in-situ

    Apr-May 2016 RV Polarstern, PS99, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Jun-Jul 2016 RV Polarstern, PS103, Atlantic Southern Ocean, Capetown to Punta Arenas, Dec 2016-Feb 2017 RV Polarstern, PS107, Fram Strait [...] al. 2019, Bracher et al. 2020). Past cruises RV Polarstern, ANT XXIV-1, Bremerhaven (Germany) to Cape Town (South Africa) in Oct/Nov 2007 RV Polarstern, ANT XXIV-4, Punta Arenas (Chile) to Bremerhaven [...] in Jul/Aug 2008 RV Polarstern, ANT XXV-1, Bremerhaven to Cape Town, Nov/Dec 2008 RV Sonne, SO202.2 (TransBrom-Sonne), Kushiro (Japan) to Townsville (Australia), Oct 2009 RV Polarstern, ANT XXVI-4, Punta

  • Landmark in Antarctica named after AWI researcher

    During the last Antarctic season, British Polarstern expedition members Dr. Robert D. Larter and Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a new landmark in the Southern [...] Southern Ocean with one of the Polarstern helicopters. This cape is named in honour of the late AWI geologist Christian Hass.

  • Oasis of life in the ice-covered central Arctic

    Polarstern Expedition
    Under the ice of the Arctic, unknown habitats conceal an unexpected variety of living beings. On October 23rd, 46 scientists are expected to return to the home port in Bremerhaven [...] Bremerhaven from an Arctic expedition with the research vessel Polarstern. Over the past six weeks, they had explored life in ice, ocean and seabed with new robots and camera systems.

  • DP+PP-S5POC

    .940352 Bracher , Astrid ; Wiegmann , Sonja (2022) Phytoplankton pigment concentrations during POLARSTERN cruise PS121 from North Sea to Fram in August to September 2019. PANGAEA , doi.pangaea [...] to 952 nm of underwater light profiles measured at discrete stations with radiometry during RV Polarstern cruise PS113 in the Atlantic Oceam. PANGAEA , doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.931480 Bracher [...] Phytoplankton pigment concentration and phytoplankton groups measured on water samples obtained during POLARSTERN cruise PS113 in the Atlantic Ocean. PANGAEA , doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911061 Bracher

  • Expedition Interface System - EIS

    recorded step by step. The data within the EIS refer to the actual stay on board Polarstern. The entire cargo for Polarstern must also be recorded via EIS. Individual freight lists can no longer be processed [...] Information EIS The logistic handling of expeditions with FS Polarstern is carried out via a web-based application. The scientific coordination creates expeditions with a voyage leader. The voyage leader

  • Climate Research in the Southern Ocean

    Polarstern Expedition
    The Alfred Wegener Institute has risen to the challenge of undertaking an expedition to the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic under pandemic conditions. Consequently, the participants [...] participants in this year’s first Polarstern expedition will be able to resume their long-term measurements in the Southern Ocean, gathering data that forms the basis for our understanding of polar processes and

  • Return from East Antarctica

    After more than six months, the research icebreaker Polarstern is returning to its home port of Bremerhaven after a successful Antarctic season. The expeditions to the southern hemisphere and the transit [...] geology of East Antarctica as well as student training. Because of this special study area for the Polarstern, there was a change of personnel in Hobart, which was the first port call in Australia in her more

  • Hausgarten Expedition ends

    Arctic
    On Sunday afternoon, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten [...] 20 years of long-term research on the effects of global climate change on the Arctic ecosystem. Polarstern will spend the coming months in the shipyard for extensive maintenance work.

  • New MOSAiC team now bound for the Arctic

    crews, roughly 100 passengers were on board: researchers and Polarstern crewmembers. The two ships will tentatively rendezvous with the Polarstern near Svalbard this weekend, so that their passengers can relieve

  • ROV in Antarctic waters

    Polarstern Expedition
    Where the Earth’s plates meet, there is evidence of their motion. An expedition of the Research Vessel Polarstern will explore this activity in the Southern Ocean in detail. The