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

Polarstern Expedition
The world’s second-largest ice shelf was the destination for a Polarstern expedition that ended in Punta Arenas, Chile on 14 th March 2018. Oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener

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.

guidelines how to issue a proposal. You represent a small team who wants to jointly conduct research on POLARSTERN? In this case, you can submit a proposal for secondary use. The number of team members should not [...] may submit a proposal for main use. You should though, bear in mind that the planning period for POLARSTERN corresponds to 3 years. Since autumn 2017, a review panel, ”Gutachterpanel Forschungsschiffe” (GPF) [...] (GPF), organizes the review and evaluation of the proposals for ship time on RV POLARSTERN and HEINCKE. The GPF has the mandate to evaluate the proposals for German research vessels and to make recommendations

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

the polar aircraft with RV Polarstern could be realized within this week. As Polarstern could not move fast in the thick sea ice, this gave us the opportunity to meet Polarstern in relative close distance [...] Polar 6, a first flight towards Polarstern was performed. Weather conditions were cloud free in lower areas and allowed a flight in low levels. In the area of Polarstern profiles for aerosol and trace gas [...] towards the location of Polarstern. The AMALi configuration was changed to zenith viewing mode in advance of the flight. The flight plans had to be changed for two reasons. First, Polarstern did significantly

clouds at Polarstern. Tue, 06 June Due to a weather front passing Svalbard, no flight was scheduled and a day-off was announced. Wed, 07 June The weather front shifted towards the area of Polarstern and did [...] overpass and cloud measurements at Polarstern was planned. The cloud cover over the sea ice was predicted to decrease during the day. When P5/6 arrived at Polarstern, the clouds were very thin and patchy [...] This situation was used to take a day-off on Tuesday. The polar aircraft reached two times RV Polarstern where collocated measurements could be performed. In the second part of the week a high pressure

construction of the new Polarstern at AWI, has been pursuing the goal of providing polar and marine research with a modern, powerful and sustainable ship and the legendary Polarstern with „a more than worthy [...] / A lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Aerospace engineer Detlef Wilde has been heading the new Polarstern construction project at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research [...] development of deep-sea robots. In 2017, this gave him the opportunity to participate himself in a Polarstern mission to the Arctic. As Airbus project manager, he tested the Viator lander-crawler system of

ner-Institut) Zooplankton time series of the Polarstern expeditions Background Several long-term data sets exist which have been collected on RV Polarstern for the past 30 years but these have never previously [...] particularly for the Weddell Sea and adjacent areas such as the Scotia and Lazarev Seas Summary of Polarstern stations in the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled and analyzed (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

After eventful 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 [...] sea. Their data show significant 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