• How is climate change affecting fauna in the Arctic?

    biogeochemists will embark on a joint expedition headed for Svalbard. On board the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) all of

  • Leaving Punta Arenas

    extremity of Chile is harsh anyway. On 7th May the cruise participants were brought on board the Polarstern at anchor offshore by a harbour launch.

  • From Bremerhaven to Las Palmas

    n and a second negative PCR tests for CoV-2, we moved, according to plan, in two batches to RV Polarstern on December 20. We moved into the chambers, the safety briefing took place in the two groups that

  • Crossing the Equator

    28.12.2020 - 03.01.2021
    After we had sent the 3rd CoV-2 swab from Las Palmas to Bremerhaven, Polarstern continues its journey southwards. The weather is increasingly summerly. Near the Canary Islands

  • The second week

    from around entire Antarctica this southern summer. With only an average 3/10 to 5/10 ice cover, Polarstern easily managed to pass this belt so that we soon arrived at our first station west of Thurston

  • Tools

    Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores from gravity, piston, kastenlot and giant [...] giant box corers with a total length of more 12000 m as well as samples from multi corers. Polarstern Core Repository We develop the Ocean Data View (ODV) software for the analysis and visualization of

  • Purchasing

    Lizenzen-Lieferung von VMware Lizenzen Tender Polarstern II Construction and ready-to-operate delivery of the icebreaking polar research and supply vessel POLARSTERN II PLEASE NOTE: Series of scams - bogus orders

  • Proposals

    submitted one year in advance. For POLARSTERN (main use): ARCTIC and ANTARCTIC: Preliminary coordination for main usage applications takes place annually at the POLARSTERN workshop in March. Usage ideas should [...] Scientific proposals Ships Polarstern and Heincke The operators of the large and medium-sized German research vessels have jointly established a procedure which offers the opportunity to exchange the [...] reviews for all ships and thus helps optimizing operation. Proposals for the use of research vessels POLARSTERN and HEINCKE can only be submitted to the German Research Vessel Evaluation Panel (GPF) via the

  • South Georgia - Gate to Antarctica

    2019
    After the departure from Punta Arenas and an 8-hourly passage through the Magellan Strait RV Polarstern started a 4-day transit bound for South Georgia. This time without station work was used by our

  • Beginning the return voyage

    report No. 1 | 10 - 17 April 2016
    The last cruise section of this year’s Antarctic season for Polarstern started on 10 April 2016 in Punta Arenas and will end on 12 May in Bremerhaven. Until Las Palmas