• How is climate change affecting fauna in the Arctic?

      biogeochemists will embark on a joint expedition headed for Svalbard. On board the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) all of

    • How is the Arctic Ocean changing? – Research vessel Polarstern launches expedition to Arctic Ocean

      Press release

    • How is the ecosystem around the Antarctic Peninsula changing?

      Polarstern expedition draws to a close in Bremerhaven
      In the autumn, the waters surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula were still home to large quantities of krill and salps, ready to spawn. Thanks to [...] such changes was a central topic during this year’s Antarctic season on board the research vessel Polarstern, which will end when, on Monday 11 June 2018, the ship returns to its homeport, Bremerhaven, after

    • 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 [...] further planned expeditions in the coming years. Interested parties can follow this and subsequent Polarstern expeditions live in a new app.

    • Ice Stations

      understanding of the polar sea ice zones. Here at AWI, we are mostly using our own ice breaker RV Polarstern, but we are also involved in expeditions by partner institutes with their vessels. During these

    • Ice and water in the Filchner Depression

      February 2018
      Favourable ice conditions and stable weather with southwesterly winds enabled Polarstern to go far south into the Filchner Depression and to cross directly in front of the Filchner Ice

    • IceBird

      Area PI IceBird Winter Mar-Apr, 2025 GS, LiS, CAO, FS Christian Haas IceBird Summer (parallel to Polarstern CONTRAST expedition) Jul-Aug, 2025 LiS, CAO, FS Gerit Birnbaum IceBird Winter Mar-Apr, 2026 GS

    • Iceflux

      net SUIT. Afterwards our Dutch colleague Jan von Franeker put the animals in an aquarium onboard Polarstern, identified their species and took these amazing photos. Novel Surface and Under-Ice Trawl (SUIT) [...] Oceanography Ecological Chemistry Explorations Presentation on sea ice ecosystems (Prezi) Blog: Polarstern-Expedition Expedition-Portal Cooperation Partners Cooperation Partners University Hamburg IMARES [...] This video of our Dutch colleagues from the research centre IMARES shows how SUIT is used during a Polarstern expedition . The pictures were taken in late summer 2013 on a expedition in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

    • Information for Expedition Participants

      necessary national permits . Polarstern Expedition participants: Polarstern-Wiki EIS - Expedition Interface System EIS - General info and wiki Deadlines 360 degr. tour Map of Polarstern General arrangement plan [...] valid for most expeditions Personal questionnaire This section does not apply to expeditions with Polarstern, Heincke, Uthörn, Mya II and Aade and participation in all land expeditions to the Antarctic (e [...] questionnaire Medical questionnaire Not necessary for expeditions with Uthörn, Mya II or Aade. RV Polarstern, RV Heincke, Neumayer III, and Kohnen expeditions: Participants will get all information and the

    • Infrared Based Whale Detection - AWI OZA

      expensive, development discontinued. ANT 23.2 Polarstern Nov 2005 - Dec 2005 Use of same cameras facing strictly forward, but mounted under roof of Polarstern's crow's nest and passively gimballed against [...] impeding automatic whale detections. Polarstern PS115/1 Aug - Sep 2018 ~60 TByte data collected Ship based operation of FIRST-Navy infrared imager on RV Polarstern for marine mammal mitigation during seismic [...] occasion, ship's antennas cause frequent false positives. Polarstern MOSAiC Ship based operation of FIRST-Navy infrared imager on RV Polarstern for polar bear surveillance. PS128 765 h operational FIRST-Navy