• Week 8: Returning to Svalbard

      2017
      After concluding our 4 th ice station at the northernmost location of this expedition, Polarstern set a south-westerly course, heading for the position of our well-known PASCAL ice floe of PS 106/1 [...] mostly gentle passage through the ice. Our journey was inter-spaced with stations where we set out Polarstern’s rubber boats Laura and Luisa to sample the surface microlayer, conducted CTD casts and performed

    • Week 7: In the deep Arctic Ocean

      PS106/2 - Weekly Report No. 7 | 2 - 9 July 2017
      During our northward transect, Polarstern bit its way through heavy sea ice, hard as concrete and covered with a thick layer of snow. This altogether

    • Week 5: From Longyearbyen around Svalbard

      nary physical, biological and biogeochemical partners, wales and seals occasionally approached Polarstern.

    • Adventure in the Ice

      The MOSAiC Expedition
      Two-and-a-half years from now, the research vessel Polarstern will depart on an adventurous expedition. For an entire year, the ship will drift through the Arctic, stuck in the

    • 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.

    • Underway observations

      PS106/1 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 24. - 30. May 2017
      On May 24, 2017 at 12:00 Polarstern has departed for the Arctic Expeditions in summer 2017.

    • 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

    • Transit cruise from Punta Arenas to Las Palmas

      PS105 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 20 March - 11 April 2017
      This year’s return journey of RV Polarstern from Antarctica began with the departure in Punta Arenas in the evening of March 20, 2017. We left

    • End of a successful Expedition

      Weekly Report No. 5 | 6 - 12 March 2017
      A world of gigantic icebergs made the scenery which Polarstern passed through on its track from Pine Island Bay to the western Amundsen Sea Embayment. The icebergs

    • 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