• Purchasing

    en-KFZ-Haftpflichtversicherungen 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

  • Magnetometers

    precession magnetometers that can be set up to measure continuously for days or weeks unattended. On Polarstern, two fluxgate three-component magnetometers are mounted on the crow's nest where they continuously [...] software after completing precise circular manouevres at various points during a science cruise. Polarstern also acts as a base for two helicopters, either of which can be set up to tow a Scintrex Caesium

  • Unique concept for observing Arctic sea ice successfully implemented

    The Polarstern recently ended a two-month expedition in the Central Arctic in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The international and interdisciplinary research team, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, focused

  • Distributed Network successfully deployed

    buoys and measurement instruments that is now drifting in the environs of the central observatory Polarstern in a distance of up to 50 kilometres.

  • Programmed Multicopter Flies Through the Arctic Autonomously

    reliable positioning data? Engineers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker Polarstern specially programmed a multicopter, allowing it to navigate despite the deviations produced by

  • Infrared Based Whale Detection - AWI OZA

    expensive, development discontinued. ANT 23.2 Polarstern Nov 2005 - Dec 2005 Use of same cameras facing strictly forward, but mounted under roof of Polarstern's crow's nest and passively gimballed against [...] impeding automatic whale detections. Polarstern PS115/1 Aug - Sep 2018 ~60 TByte data collected Ship based operation of FIRST-Navy infrared imager on RV Polarstern for marine mammal mitigation during seismic [...] occasion, ship's antennas cause frequent false positives. Polarstern MOSAiC Ship based operation of FIRST-Navy infrared imager on RV Polarstern for polar bear surveillance. PS128 765 h operational FIRST-Navy

  • Fish and squid found in the Central Arctic Ocean

    expected. Scientists participating in the international MOSAiC expedition with research icebreaker Polarstern have found fish and squid in deep water in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. The results from Stockholm

  • World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

    Award
    Caught in the glare of Polarstern’s spotlights, a curious mother polar bear and her cub explore the MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred

  • From Advent into the New Year

    PS110 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 20 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
    According to the schedule Polarstern left Bremerhaven at high tide and in tight fog on 20th December, 2017. On board are 44 crew members

  • PS101 KARASIK

    PS101 - Weeklý Report No. 1 | 10 - 18 September 2016
    The aim of POLARSTERN expedition PS101 is to study the geophysical, geological, geochemical and biological processes at seamounts and sources of