• Shopping only once a year

    a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern

  • Underway observations

    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

    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 at UNIS

  • From Longyearbyen through Fram Strait towards Northeast Greenland

    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

    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 will contribute to the field [...] 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 program. Beyond this, various

  • A stormy send-off

    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.

  • A full loaded vessel

    - 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.

  • Neumayer and beyond

    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 Ekström Ice Shelf.<br

  • We are leaving Cape Town

    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.

  • The Drake Passage – Second Traverse

    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 traverse toward