• Polarstern, 07°0´N, 23°48´W

      PS120 - Weekly Report No. 2 | 10 - 16 June 2019
      On Friday the 14.06 we arrived at the equator. We stayed put there for a while to measure the different over depth. If one stood on the portside of the ship one was in the southern Hemisphere and standing on the starboard side, one was in the northern Hemisphere. The meteorologists could wander between both, outside their office.

    • Working in the Ocean

      Report No. 3 | 17 - 23 June 2019
      It is Sunday today on the POLARSTERN. I was delighted with the crispy croissant and apricot jam, which I consumed for breakfast with a delicious cup of creamy coffee

    • Polarstern departs for the Arctic


      On the evening of 10 August 2019, the research vessel Polarstern will leave her homeport in Bremerhaven. The purpose of the expedition is to conduct studies at a major long-term monitoring station [...] the Arctic. After roughly a month underway, in mid-September Polarstern will reach the Norwegian port of Tromsø, where she’ll receive her final preparations for the one-year-long MOSAiC expedition,

    • Stormy start

      hours of August 10 in Bremerhaven, it was “lines off” for Polarstern, as she set course through the initially calm sea towards the long-term observatory area Hausgarten. Every single spot on the ship

    • Follow Polarstern’s drift live on your mobile device

      challenge to all international scientists involved: The drift of Polarstern will be determined by nature and can only be estimated so far in advance. To allow everyone interested to join this exciting

    • This Evening Sees the Start of MOSAiC – the Greatest Arctic Research Expedition of All Time

      finally time: this evening at 8:30 p.m. the German icebreaker Polarstern will depart from the Norwegian port of Tromsø. Escorted by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov, she will set sail for the

    • Distributed Network successfully deployed

      that is now drifting in the environs of the central observatory Polarstern in a distance of up to 50 kilometres.

    • Oasis of life in the ice-covered central Arctic

      Polarstern Expedition
      Under the ice of the Arctic, unknown habitats conceal an unexpected variety of living beings. On October 23rd, 46 [...] Bremerhaven from an Arctic expedition with the research vessel Polarstern. Over the past six weeks, they had explored life in ice, ocean and seabed with new robots and camera systems.

    • World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

      Award
      Caught in the glare of Polarstern’s spotlights, a curious mother polar bear and her cub explore the MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer

    • Two New Records at the North Pole

      (CET) on Friday, 28 February, dropped anchor 970 metres from Polarstern, moored to the same floe. While the handover is in full swing on the MOSAiC floe, in Russia another icebreaker will soon leave