gravity meters from LaCoste and Romberg for the purpose of these so-called tie measurements. On board Polarstern, underway measurements are made using a KSS-32 gravimeter from Bodenseewerke. Airborne measurements

The impact of krill and salps on Fe biogeochemistry in Fe-limited oceanic waters The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] experiments with grazers (krill and salps) and their grazing products will be performed during the Polarstern expedition PS112 in the northern WAP in 2018. This project will be carried out in close cooperation

Greenland continental shelf. To close this knowledge-gap, swath bathymetric data acquired by FS Polarstern over the last two decades is investigated to identify glacial landforms. This investigation will

2) and some archivalia of the Schacht & Westerich Company with regard to the construction of RV Polarstern (AE 3). Moreover, the AWI's spin off company "Training and Education Centre Hydography at AWI"

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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.

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prize for Early Career Researchers (ECR). Both are working on geoscientific data sets from the FS Polarstern-EASI expeditions in order to decipher the glacial and climate history of East Antarctica more reliably [...] reliably. > Bernd Rendel Price 2025 > First amber find on the Antarctic continent > Research vessel Polarstern sets course for East Antarctica

supported AWI research in the Arctic and Antarctic, both on land and at sea. Laeisz has operated the Polarstern since New Year's Eve 1995. On 15 January, the AWI honoured this successful collaboration during [...] and international cooperation. Reception in Namibia 15. December 2025 To mark the arrival of the Polarstern in Walvis Bay, Dr Thorsten Hutter, the German Ambassador to Namibia, visited the ship with his [...] MOSAiC It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift. Find out more UN Ocean Conference 2025 Find out more UN Decade

On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a

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