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    • Climate Research in the Southern Ocean

      Polarstern Expedition
      The Alfred Wegener Institute has risen to the challenge of undertaking an expedition to the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic under pandemic conditions. Consequently, the participants [...] participants in this year’s first Polarstern expedition will be able to resume their long-term measurements in the Southern Ocean, gathering data that forms the basis for our understanding of polar processes and

    • Research in the Southern Ocean

      everyone’s work on board, it is critically important to those whose research activities rely on Polarstern’s two helicopters. On this expedition, two teams alternate use of the helicopters: the sea ice team

    • Polarstern expedition investigates massive calved iceberg

      a massive iceberg calved from the Antarctic Ice Sheet. As the only research vessel nearby, the Polarstern took the opportunity to enter the area between the iceberg and the Brunt Ice Shelf. The first images

    • Polarstern Sets Sail for the Arctic

      Arctic Expedition
      On Whit Monday, 24 May 2021, the Polarstern will set sail for the Arctic. In Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard, more than 50 participating scientists will resume the long-term

    • Water World

      provide details about the work of the phyto-opticians, biogeochemists and planktologists during RV Polarstern expedition PS126. Their goal is to investigate the organisms and processes in the water column

    • “Groundwork”

      we will provide details about the work of the benthologists and seafloor biogeochemists during Polarstern expedition PS126; their goal is to investigate organisms and processes at the deep seafloor.

    • Hausgarten Expedition ends

      Arctic
      On Sunday afternoon, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten [...] 20 years of long-term research on the effects of global climate change on the Arctic ecosystem. Polarstern will spend the coming months in the shipyard for extensive maintenance work.

    • Back Again: First deployed buoy from the MOSAiC expedition

      the Polarstern to the Central Arctic. It was the first buoy to be sent off during the MOSAiC expedition. It was part of the "Distributed Network," a large buoy network that drifted around Polarstern at

    • Research icebreaker Polarstern departs for the Fram Strait

      Arctic Expedition
      On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport in Bremerhaven, headed for the Arctic. The main focus of the journey will be on long-term oceanographic

    • 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.