• Expedition to Antarctica’s Glaciers

      to these key questions, 50 researchers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research vessel Polarstern are going to depart from Punta Arenas (Chile) on 6 February 2017, bound for the Amundsen Sea –

    • Expedition „ROBEX-DM“

      PS108 - Weekly Report No. 1. | 22 - 28 August 2017
      On Tuesday August 22 at 19:00 POLARSTERN left Tromsö with an unusual freight on board into direction of Svalbard. Unusual, because 10 of the 40 scientists

    • 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

    • MOSAiC expedition reaches the North Pole

      MOSAiC
      At 12:45 pm on 19 August 2020 the German research icebreaker Polarstern reached the North Pole. The ship followed a route to the north of Greenland – and through a region that, in the past, was

    • Underwater robot scheduled to surface after a year exploring the Arctic depths

      New Technologies for Arctic Research
      On Tuesday, 22 August the research icebreaker Polarstern will depart the Norwegian port of Tromsø for a unique expedition to the Arctic: the autonomous underwater

    • How climate change is altering the Arctic Ocean

      On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a

    • Northernmost hot springs of the earth discovered

      Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Bremen. On an expedition with the research icebreaker POLARSTERN, researchers discovered the northernmost hydrothermal field on Earth here – only around 300 kilometers

    • The forerunners of Greenland

      Report No. 1 | 12 - 17 September 2017
      In the evening of 12 September the research icebreaker R/V Polarstern left the port of Tromsø (Norway). On board there are scientists from seven nations who cover the

    • 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

    • Proposals

      submitted one year in advance. For POLARSTERN (main use): ARCTIC and ANTARCTIC: Preliminary coordination for main usage applications takes place annually at the POLARSTERN workshop in March. Usage ideas should [...] Scientific proposals Ships Polarstern and Heincke The operators of the large and medium-sized German research vessels have jointly established a procedure which offers the opportunity to exchange the [...] reviews for all ships and thus helps optimizing operation. Proposals for the use of research vessels POLARSTERN and HEINCKE can only be submitted to the German Research Vessel Evaluation Panel (GPF) via the