• Fleet + stations

    logistics. The AWI makes available its research platforms for scientists from all over the world. Ships Polarstern Heincke Uthörn Mya II Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Arctic Station AWIPEV Kohnen Station Marine

  • Logistics

    terrestrial polar research of high international reputation. The AWI runs the research and supply ship "Polarstern", the research vessel "Heincke", four small research cutters, two research aircraft, a permanently

  • PERPLEX

    The software was developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute and used during many cruises of the RV Polarstern. PERPLEX allows scientists and chief scientist as well as logisticians and nautical personnel to

  • FRAM Data Integration

    platforms provides information on phytoplankton composition and particle size distribution. On board of POLARSTERN, state of the art underway-measuring systems have been installed, their reliability is frequently

  • Library in the Ice

    travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories and living quarters of the old station – the second Neumayer Station – were

  • Chronicle

    crew of the Polarstern even frees a British research ship trapped in the pack ice. Polarstern in the waters off Greenland (Photo: Hannes Grobe) Operations 1982-1989 9 December 1982 – RV Polarstern is taken [...] amounted to 188 million marks (over 96 million euros). Contruction of Polarstern (Photo: Klaus von Bröckel) Construction of Polarstern II Data June 1979 – The invitation to tender for construction of the [...] in Kiel 25.01.1982 named „Polarstern“ 9. Dezember 1982 by German Federal Ministe r for Research Heinz Riesenhuber Construction period The new research icebreaker Polarstern’s first journeys take her to

  • Cooperations

    Approximately one quarter of all AWI expedition participants in research cruises aboard the RV Polarstern are international visiting scientists. AWI primary partner institutions Institution Country British

  • Past Climate Change

    through discrete sampling and continuous monitoring. It combines isotopic measurements on board RV Polarstern taken during the MOSAiC expedition with simultaneously performed measurements from several land-based [...] different Arctic hydrological compartments (i.e. sea water, sea ice, snow, water vapor) surrounding RV Polarstern will be targeted to decipher major exchange processes between atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice. Contact:

  • Hochansteckende_Vogelgrippe__HPAI__Guidelines.docx

    to be transported to RV Polarstern or to the Neumayer Station III. Only HPAI samples taken in accordance with the advice by the HPAI Task Force are allowed onboard RV Polarstern or in the Neumayer Station [...] Neumayer: no Polarstern: no Hand-Disinfectant www.fishersci.de/shop/products/sterillium-classic-pure-hand-disinfectant/p-8000891 AWI Shop: 9803901 Neumayer: yes Polarstern: yes FFP2 [...] Neumayer: no Polarstern: no FFP3 Masks www.fishersci.de/shop/products/ffp3-disposable-respirator-face-mask-2/16639422 AWI Shop: 4046719487332 Neumayer: no Polarstern: no Boots/Shoes

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  • Stable Isotopes Lab

    through discrete sampling and continuous monitoring. It combines isotopic measurements on board RV Polarstern taken during the MOSAiC expedition with simultaneously performed measurements from several land-based [...] different Arctic hydrological compartments (i.e. sea water, sea ice, snow, water vapor) surrounding RV Polarstern will be targeted to decipher major exchange processes between atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice. Contact: