construction of the new Polarstern at AWI, has been pursuing the goal of providing polar and marine research with a modern, powerful and sustainable ship and the legendary Polarstern with „a more than worthy [...] / A lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Aerospace engineer Detlef Wilde has been heading the new Polarstern construction project at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research [...] development of deep-sea robots. In 2017, this gave him the opportunity to participate himself in a Polarstern mission to the Arctic. As Airbus project manager, he tested the Viator lander-crawler system of

ArcWatch 1
On Thursday, 3 August 2023, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to set off from Tromsø, Norway, towards the North Pole. For two months, a good fifty scientific expedition participants

Our research vessel RV Polarstern is equipped with a PARASOUND DS2 sediment echosounder (ATLAS Hydrographic GmbH, Bremen). This echosounder generates two primary frequencies at ca. 18 and 22 kHz. The secondary

Polarstern returned to her home port of Bremerhaven with the morning tide today after a seven month Antarctic expedition and is now being unloaded. The ship will spend the next few weeks at Lloyd Werft for routine maintenance and repairs before departing for the Arctic again at the end of May.

Deep Sea Research
Today, Monday, 22 May 2023, the Research Vessel Polarstern will leave her homeport in Bremerhaven, catching the afternoon high tide at ca 3:00 pm and bound for the Arctic Ocean. The

and early campaign (November to February) where cargo canonly be transported to Antarctica with Polarstern, i.e. transport must take place oneseason in advance. All Kohnen projects are large projects. National [...] from Bremerhaven: Transport of cargo from Bremerhaven to Cape Town by commercial containership or Polarstern in connection with Neumayer supply: no costs. Transport from Cape Town to Neumayer in connection [...] Bremerhaven: Cargo is transported to Cape Town by conventional air freight and then loadedonto Polarstern or a DROMSHIP vessel - variable air freight costs (volume-weight calculation): Cost of air freight

and early campaign (November to February) where cargo canonly be transported to Antarctica with Polarstern, i.e. transport must take place oneseason in advance. All Kohnen projects are large projects. National [...] from Bremerhaven: Transport of cargo from Bremerhaven to Cape Town by commercial containership or Polarstern in connection with Neumayer supply: no costs. Transport from Cape Town to Neumayer in connection [...] Bremerhaven: Cargo is transported to Cape Town by conventional air freight and then loadedonto Polarstern or a DROMSHIP vessel - variable air freight costs (volume-weight calculation): Cost of air freight

ORANGE RV HEINCKE PLASTIC BOX WHITE RV MARIA S. MERIAN PLYWOOD BOX YELLOW RV METEOR STYROFOAM BOX RV POLARSTERN THERMO BOX RV SONNE UNPACKED RV UTHÖRN WOODEN BOX SAMOYLOV / LENA-DELTA OTHER Tabelle1

AWIPEV/Svalbard RV Polarstern/Sea Expeditions to the Arctic or Antarctica Heincke Mya/Aade/Uthörn Sea Expeditions to other destinations (not Heincke, Mya, Uthörn, Aade) for example RV Polarstern Transfer Las [...] locally accessible for medical personnel during your expedition to: Antarctica AWIPEV/Svalbard RV Polarstern/Sea Expeditions to the Arctic or Antarctica Heincke Mya/Aade/Uthörn Sea Expeditions to other d

........................................... Stamp: ........................................ RV Polarstern RV Heincke ...................... doc@awi.de 5 / 14 Ve rs io n: 2 02 3/ 01 Anamnesis (medical [...] consequence of acute illness or accident (e.g. due to unconsciousness). In case of expeditions with RV Polarstern or assignments at the Neumayer III Station, the data are made accessible to the doctor on board/at