• Technology and Logistics

      floats deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. (copy 2) Fig. 5. Schematic of mooring array extending from Kapp Norvegia towards the Antarctic Peninsula, deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. [...] presence of Antarctic marine mammals. HAFOS was first implemented to its full extend in 2012/13 during Polarstern expedition ANT-XXIX/2, yet subsets of the system existed in various configurations since 2002, [...] driven instrumentation, need to be exchanged every second to third year during expeditions with RV Polarstern, which also serve to collect spatially highly resolved CTD sections and to deploy additional i

    • 5 years Welcome back MOSAiC

      It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift.

    • Shopping only once a year

      Antarctica look after themselves? In a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern

    • 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.

    • Expeditions

      Heincke Sampling in Zodiac, King George Island Sampling of glacier meltwater, King George Island Polarstern brine sampling in the central Arctic sea ice samlpling in the central Arctic ice-tank experiment

    • 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

    • 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).

    • 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.