• Infrastructure, Services, and Support

      administration. These include: a global network: from building to building, from site to site, from Polarstern to Neumayer III Station, AWI-wide identity management and the provision of staff and guests with

    • InnoLab for Arctic Research

      for the Study of Arctic Climate ). From fall 2019 to fall 2020, the German research icebreaker POLARSTERN drifted frozen through the Arctic Ocean. The data collected will be valuable for generations to

    • Insurance

      the AWI-Intranet (AWI employees only) or on request from Mrs. Kniemeyer-Schulze. Participants in Polarstern expeditions receive the documents in the Expedition Interface System (EIS).

    • International training on board Polarstern completed

      international group of young marine scientists is arriving in Walvis Bai in Namibia on board the Polarstern. They have been taking part in a specialised training voyage aboard the German research icebreaker

    • Into the Weddell Sea

      | 9 January – 15 January 2017
      9. January 2017 - 3 weeks and 3 days at sea. Yesterday evening Polarstern managed to push herself free between what was formerly fast ice by about half a ship´s length with

    • Into the ice – RV Polarstern opens the arctic season by setting course for Spitsbergen

      Press release
      On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute

    • Introductory Literature

      Polarforschung. 1. Aufl. Bielefeld: Delius Klasing. Fütterer, Dieter K.; Fahrbach, Eberhard (2008): Polarstern. 25 Jahre Forschung in Arktis und Antarktis. 1. Aufl. Bielefeld: Delius Klasing. Hempel, Gotthilf

    • Investigating unexplored ocean currents to the north of Greenland

      north of Greenland was the area of study in the last of three Arctic expeditions undertaken by the Polarstern since the end of May 2025. In the largely untraveled waters north and northeast of Greenland, a

    • Iron limitation and cycling

      board the RV Polarstern in collaboration with Dr. Christel Hassler (Swiss Polar Institute) from 16 February 2016 to 8th April 2016 (PS97, ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016

    • JAGO and Polarstern, an unbeatable team on a coldwater coral expedition in Arctic ocean

      Press release