collection, as well as extending them by new collections on board Polarstern . We are working on improving mobilization of taxon observation records backed up by voucher images (as well as by the physical

Conference Synera Expedition Ships Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern Chronicle New Polarstern Heincke Mya II Uthörn Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Library in the Ice AWIPEV Arctic Research Base [...] Technical details Automatic aerosol sampler Results from Roberta Polarstern Synoptic Observations Code Upper Air Soundings continuous Sensors Ceilometer Automatic Weather Stations Søråsen Filchner Halvfarryggen

for the purpose of these so-called tie measurements. On board Polarstern, underway measurements are made using a KSS-32 gravimeter from Bodenseewerke. Airborne measurements in Polar 5 or Polar 6 are

George Island Sampling of glacier meltwater, King George Island Polarstern brine sampling in the central Arctic sea ice samlpling in the central Arctic ice-tank experiment at UNIS

Fe biogeochemistry in Fe-limited oceanic waters The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The western Atlantic sector of the [...] salps) and their grazing products will be performed during the Polarstern expedition PS112 in the northern WAP in 2018. This project will be carried out in close cooperation with Prof. Dr. Christel Hassler

under current and future climate 12 berths on board the RV Polarstern in collaboration with Dr. Christel Hassler (Swiss Polar Institute) from 16 February 2016 to 8th April 2016 (PS97, ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean ecosystem exerts a disproportional control

Meteorological Measurements On bord of the research vessel POLARSTERN data of a number of measuring systems and sensors, including the navigation system and sensors from the meteorology, oceanography [...] of the navigation system and the meteorology observatory of RV POLARSTERN - which are used routinely by a variety of scientists as background information for their one experiments - have to be available

CL51 ( VAISALA , Finnland) was mounted on the monkey deck of Polarstern. It is able to measure cloud heights and vertical backscatter profiles. Short, powerful laser pulses are sent out in a vertical

researchers also bring us new samples every year from their “Polarstern” expeditions,” explains Friedel Hinz. Diatoms from Oamaru, New Zealand (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Diatom samples from all

Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Zooplankton time series of the Polarstern expeditions Background Several long-term data sets exist which have been collected on RV Polarstern for the past 30 years but [...] adjacent areas such as the Scotia and Lazarev Seas Summary of Polarstern stations in the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled and analyzed (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)