• Journey through space and time

    On Wednesday, 2 July 2025, the Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, embarking on an expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next two months, an international research team will analyse the feedback [...] parallel airborne campaign will complement the measurements and, at the outset of the expedition, the Polarstern will support the first ice testing of the new French Tara Polar Station research platform.

  • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

    PS108 2017 Polarstern PS107 2016 Polarstern PS99.2 2015 Polarstern PS93.2 2014 Polarstern PS85 2013 Maria S. Merian MSM29 2012 Polarstern ARK-XXVII/2 2011 Polarstern ARK-XXVI/2 2010 Polarstern ARK-XXV/2 [...] HAUSGARTEN: 31 2025 Polarstern PS148 2024 Polarstern PS143 2023 Polarstern PS136 2022 Maria S. Merian MSM108 2021 Polarstern PS126 2019 Polarstern PS121 2018 Maria S. Merian MSM77 2018 Polarstern PS114 2017 Polarstern [...] 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/3c 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/1 2002 Polarstern ARK-XVIII/1 2001 Polarstern ARK-XVII/2 2001 L'Atalante Arctic Ocean 2001 2000 Polarstern ARK-XVI/2 1999 Polarstern ARK-XV/1

  • Landmark in Antarctica named after AWI researcher

    During the last Antarctic season, British Polarstern expedition members Dr. Robert D. Larter and Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a new landmark in the Southern [...] Southern Ocean with one of the Polarstern helicopters. This cape is named in honour of the late AWI geologist Christian Hass.

  • Larsen C Ice Shelf Remains a Mystery

    Antarctic Expedition
    A few days ago, the captain and the head of the current Polarstern expedition jointly decided to abandon their efforts to reach the Larsen C Ice Shelf. Since dense sea ice and ice

  • Last full week of calm seas until Cape Town

    the past couple weeks we have reached South Africa and shut down the hydroacoustics, as well as Polarsterns underway measurements. Underway CTD casts of two times per day have also ended. This was the last

  • 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.

  • Library in the Ice

    travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories and living quarters of the old station – the second Neumayer Station – were

  • Locations and Facilities

    ___ Diving from RV Polarstern RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The research vessel Polarstern operates in the southern and arctic ocean. As an icebreaker RV Polarstern enables to enter ice [...] North Sea or the Atlantic from the RV Heincke . Dives from our larger research vessels (incl. RV Polarstern) are done using RHIB’S or inflatables according to the ESDP-guidelines „Scientific diving from [...] to conduct diving supported underwater research under ice shields. For further details about RV Polarstern click here . _________________________ Diving at the German Polar Station Neumayer III (Antarctica)

  • Logistics

    terrestrial polar research of high international reputation. The AWI runs the research and supply ship "Polarstern", the research vessel "Heincke", four small research cutters, two research aircraft, a permanently

  • Long Term Observations

    cycle from collection to publication. Atmosphere Antarctic (Neumayer-Station III) Arctic (AWIPEV) Polarstern (Ice breaker) Automatic Weather Stations Geophysics Seismics (Neumayer-Station III) Magnetics