• Software

      and has been improved during countless research cruises of RV Polarstern. Find out more The TsunAWI modeling tool has been developed within the framework of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning

    • Sediment echosounder

      Our research vessel RV Polarstern is equipped with a PARASOUND DS2 sediment echosounder (ATLAS Hydrographic GmbH, Bremen). This echosounder generates two primary

    • Eyewitnesses to Arctic Change

      ArcWatch 1
      On Thursday, 3 August 2023, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to set off from Tromsø, Norway, towards the North Pole. For two months, a good fifty scientific expedition participants

    • Formation of the Arctic Basin

      Ocean will see an explosion of research activities. With RV Polarstern, our powerful ice breaker and a variety of specially adapted equipment and techniques , AWIs geophysics group has played a leading

    • Antje Boetius once again appointed Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute

      ’s history, and paved the way for the construction of the new Polarstern II. Despite the numerous crises currently facing our world, her plans for the years to come remain ambitious: she intends e.g. to

    • The Alfred Wegener Institute supports the “March for Science”

      participating in the “March for Science” – from the Open Ship Polarstern event in Bremerhaven, from on board the research ship Heincke, from the Antarctic research station Neumayer III, and from the

    • The Tropical North Atlantic: Cold in the Water, Dust in the Sky

      skies with only a few clouds, but with strong head-winds for Polarstern. By crossing the northern tropic, the Tropic of Cancer, at 23° 26’ 05” North during the night of 31st May to 1st June we have left

    • Taking to the highsea with a young research spirit

      On board the Polarstern research vessel, an international group of young scientists will immerse in the fascinating world of marine research. They are

    • Synoptic Observations

      of the Word Meteorological Organization WMO. On board of Polarstern the weather observations are coded according to the FM12/13 code and transferred without delay into the Global Telecommunication

    • Under Saharan Dust

      Report No. 1 | 9 till 15 November 2015
      After 13 days at sea Polarstern reached Las Palmas on the Canary Islands on the 10th November. The team of three geophysicists left the ship and six new people