• 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 [...] 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 than 40-year history.

    • 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

    • Setting sail to a region in rapid transition

      With the departure of the research vessel Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) scheduled for this weekend, the "Summer Weddell Sea Outflow Study" (SWOS) international expedition will [...] only be explored on site by research icebreakers such as the Polarstern due to challenging sea ice conditions.

    • 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

    • How unstable is the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?

      Expedition start
      On the 6th of January, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town in South Africa for an expedition of around eight weeks to the Antarctic. Extensive preventative measures [...] coming years. Interested parties can follow this and subsequent Polarstern expeditions live in a new app.

    • Unique Insights into the Antarctic Ice Shelf System

      Polarstern Expedition
      The world’s second-largest ice shelf was the destination for a Polarstern expedition that ended in Punta Arenas,

    • New equipment for the AWI - "Gardener"

      RV Polarstern starts the Arctic season
      Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards Spitsbergen, to use newly developed equipment in the Arctic Ocean. Autonomous instruments on the seabed, in the water

    • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

      information on this species' behavioural activity. 2010/11 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXVII/2 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0634_2011 Field Recordings at Rothera 2009 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXV/2 [...] connected to an M-Audio recorder in Zarges box. 2006 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXIII/6 doi:10.2312/BzPM_0580_2008 Test of a passive acoustic streamer towed behind Polarstern, sea ice based PAM for leopard seals for diver safety in the vicinity of Polarstern, and PAM recordings at a separate site 60nm from Polarstern for 12h at 192 kHz. 2005 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXII/3 https://

    • The changing Arctic Ocean

      and busy months, the Arctic season ends this weekend with the Polarstern expedition called ArcWatch-1. The team of almost 100 crew and scientists measured sea ice thickness and properties, recorded the [...] changes compared to previous expeditions. On 7 September 2023, Polarstern reached the North Pole, and on 20 September there was the world's first livestream of an ROV under-ice dive from the Central Arctic

    • Back Again: First deployed buoy from the MOSAiC expedition

      (AWI), placed an ice buoy on a floe during the passage of the Polarstern to the Central Arctic. It was the first buoy to be sent off during the MOSAiC expedition. It was part of the "Distributed Network," a large buoy network that drifted around Polarstern at distances of up to 50 kilometers and continuously and precisely monitored this area. For almost two years, the buoy was on its