A full loaded vessel

    PS 117 - 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.

    A stormy send-off

    No. 1 | 5 - 11 December 2021
    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.

    Freight handling

    Roadtransport (not expeditions) Label for outer packing: Polarstern; departure Bremerhaven (Word) Polarstern; any foreign port (Word) Polarstern; Stückgut/General Cargo ANT-Land; freight to/from Antarctica [...] handling A nna-Lena Bohlen dangerous goods Gisela S trelow disposals Polarstern expeditions Please also read the information in the Polarstern-Wiki Contact Freight handling: transport @ awi.de Anna-Lena Bohlen [...] Neumayer III, Carlini Station/ Dallmann Laboratory Nina Machner Polarstern incl. dangerous goods and Neumayer/Kohnen if transported on board Polarstern / Agency services, harbour and shipyard times Marcus Meierdierks

    Q and A

    the RV Polarstern? To learn more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the AWI website for participants of expeditions and the PolarsternWiki: [...] more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the section “Where do I find further information on AWI expeditions and the RV Polarstern?" Do I have [...] t-us/logistics/information-for-expedition-participants.html spaces.awi.de/display/EFPW/Polarstern+-+Wiki Questions and Answers We hope that our Q and A section is helpful, if you still have questions

    The Drake Passage – Second Traverse

    PS97 Weekly Report 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

    We are leaving Cape Town

    PS103 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 16 - 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

    Same procedure as every year: „Gardening“ in the deep Arctic Ocean

    students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second leg of RV “Polarstern” expedition PS93.

    At Neumayer Station

    3 | 4 January – 8 January 2017
    4 January 2017, 2 weeks and 5 days at sea. The morning finds Polarstern alongside the ice shelf edge, or, more precisely, at the north-eastern berth of Atka Sea Port.

    Insurance

    the AWI-Intranet (AWI employees only) or on request from Mrs. Kniemeyer-Schulze. Participants in Polarstern expeditions receive the documents in the Expedition Interface System (EIS).

    Week 2 at the ice floe

    online and off-line instrumentation (high volume and size-resolved samplers), was installed on Polarstern on the upper deck to measure in-situ atmospheric aerosol physical-chemical properties.