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
e weeks after setting sail from Tromsø, Norway, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Polarstern makes a stop at the northernmost point on Earth. Here, too, the international team of researchers
During the last Antarctic season, British Polarstern expedition members Dr. Robert D. Larter and Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a new landmark in the Southern [...] Southern Ocean with one of the Polarstern helicopters. This cape is named in honour of the late AWI geologist Christian Hass.
polar research: New Polarstern Detlef Wilde, project director for the construction of the new Polarstern at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Research vessel Icebreaker Expedition New Polarstern The Research Vessel [...] status of the procurement procedure for the new Polarstern is expected in 2024. The handover of the completed ship is slated for 2027. The new Polarstern will make it possible for researchers from around [...] generations. The requirements profile reflects the lessons learned over the Polarstern’s nearly 40 years of service. The new Polarstern will be capable of operating under changing ice and weather conditions
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
ArcWatch 1 On Thursday, 3 August 2023, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to set off from Tromsø, Norway, towards the North Pole. For two months, a good fifty scientific expedition participants
Our research vessel RV Polarstern is equipped with a PARASOUND DS2 sediment echosounder (ATLAS Hydrographic GmbH, Bremen). This echosounder generates two primary frequencies at ca. 18 and 22 kHz. The secondary
Polarstern back in Bremerhaven
Polarstern returned to her home port of Bremerhaven with the morning tide today after a seven month Antarctic expedition and is now being unloaded. The ship will spend the next few weeks at Lloyd Werft for routine maintenance and repairs before departing for the Arctic again at the end of May.
Deep Sea Research Today, Monday, 22 May 2023, the Research Vessel Polarstern will leave her homeport in Bremerhaven, catching the afternoon high tide at ca 3:00 pm and bound for the Arctic Ocean. The
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