| 9 January – 15 January 2017
9. January 2017 - 3 weeks and 3 days at sea. Yesterday evening Polarstern managed to push herself free between what was formerly fast ice by about half a ship´s length with

PS115/1 - Weekly report no. 1 | 5th August - 12th August 2018
The cruise PS115.1 on Polarstern focuses on a geoscientific research program, which has the aim to clarify the geological development of

Expedition
After half a year in the Southern Hemisphere, the research icebreaker Polarstern will soon return to her homeport, Bremerhaven. Following a season of work focusing on sea ice, the icebreaker

report, today we will provide details about the work of the biogeochemists and biologists during “Polarstern” expedition PS99.2. Their goal is to investigate organisms and processes at the deep seafloor.

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

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

Antarctic sea ice (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) We perform snow thickness measurements during Polarstern expeditions by using a “magna probe”, an electronic handheld device which is used to collect snow [...] Wegener Institut) In order to characterize different snow layers, snow pits are prepared during Polarstern expeditions. In addition, we use remote sensing products to obtain the distribution of snow on

field expedition to the Central Arctic ever. Key element is the drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern frozen into the pack ice over an entire year. Over all, more than 300 scientists from 17 countries [...] to analyzing and exploiting the data over the coming years to decades. Beyond an ice camp around Polarstern, a distributed network of observations, airborne and satellite observations contribute to the field

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

Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as usual – materials and fuel to the Antarctic. However, due to the coronavirus