• 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

    • 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

    • Journey through space and time

      On Wednesday, 2 July 2025, the Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, embarking on an expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next two months, an international research team will analyse the feedback [...] parallel airborne campaign will complement the measurements and, at the outset of the expedition, the Polarstern will support the first ice testing of the new French Tara Polar Station research platform.

    • Karen_Wiltshire_AWI-Expert_UK_updated.pdf

      . In this context, training and educating young scientists – e.g. on board the research vessel Polarstern – was something very close to her heart. Since July 2024, Karen Wiltshire has been back at Trinity

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    • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

      PS108 2017 Polarstern PS107 2016 Polarstern PS99.2 2015 Polarstern PS93.2 2014 Polarstern PS85 2013 Maria S. Merian MSM29 2012 Polarstern ARK-XXVII/2 2011 Polarstern ARK-XXVI/2 2010 Polarstern ARK-XXV/2 [...] HAUSGARTEN: 31 2025 Polarstern PS148 2024 Polarstern PS143 2023 Polarstern PS136 2022 Maria S. Merian MSM108 2021 Polarstern PS126 2019 Polarstern PS121 2018 Maria S. Merian MSM77 2018 Polarstern PS114 2017 Polarstern [...] 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/3c 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/1 2002 Polarstern ARK-XVIII/1 2001 Polarstern ARK-XVII/2 2001 L'Atalante Arctic Ocean 2001 2000 Polarstern ARK-XVI/2 1999 Polarstern ARK-XV/1

    • Landmark in Antarctica named after AWI researcher

      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.

    • Larsen C Ice Shelf Remains a Mystery

      Antarctic Expedition
      A few days ago, the captain and the head of the current Polarstern expedition jointly decided to abandon their efforts to reach the Larsen C Ice Shelf. Since dense sea ice and ice