• Underway observations

      PS106/1 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 24. - 30. May 2017
      On May 24, 2017 at 12:00 Polarstern has departed for the Arctic Expeditions in summer 2017.

    • From Longyearbyen through Fram Strait towards Northeast Greenland

      Weekly Report No. 1 | 29 June to 5 July 2015
      At 8:00 am the embarkment of scientists starts. As Polarstern cannot enter the harbor pier directly, people have to use the Zodiac (Fig.1).

    • MOSAiC

      field expedition to the Central Arctic ever. Key element is the drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern frozen into the pack ice over an entire year. Over all, more than 300 scientists from 17 countries [...] to analyzing and exploiting the data over the coming years to decades. Beyond an ice camp around Polarstern, a distributed network of observations, airborne and satellite observations contribute to the field

    • Neumayer and beyond

      PS111 – Weekly Report No. 2 | 27 January - 2 February 2018
      Now we have arrived – Polarstern makes her way easily through the disintegrating winter sea ice cover, heading for the northeastern edge of

    • A full loaded vessel

      PS 117 - Weekly Report No 1 | 15 – 20 December 2018
      As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town on 15 December at 4pm, taking off for her 117th expedition to the Antarctic.

    • A stormy send-off

      No. 1 | 5 - 11 December 2021
      After a snowy Bremerhaven departure on Dec 5 th 2021 at 13:00, Polarstern made its way through the port, the locks and towards the English Channel.

    • The Drake Passage – Second Traverse

      PS97 Weekly Report No. 5 | 14. - 20. March 2016
      During the fifth week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 we left the Antarctic Peninsula area close to Elephant Island to start our second Drake Passage

    • We are leaving Cape Town

      PS103 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 16 - 20 December 2016
      16. December, day of departure As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town at 6pm, taking off for her 103rd expedition to the Antarctic

    • Same procedure as every year: „Gardening“ in the deep Arctic Ocean

      students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second leg of RV “Polarstern” expedition PS93.

    • At Neumayer Station

      3 | 4 January – 8 January 2017
      4 January 2017, 2 weeks and 5 days at sea. The morning finds Polarstern alongside the ice shelf edge, or, more precisely, at the north-eastern berth of Atka Sea Port.