• We are leaving Cape Town

      PS103 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 16 - 20 December 2016
      16. December, day of departure As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town at 6pm, taking off for her 103rd expedition to the Antarctic

    • Same procedure as every year: „Gardening“ in the deep Arctic Ocean

      students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second leg of RV “Polarstern” expedition PS93.

    • At Neumayer Station

      3 | 4 January – 8 January 2017
      4 January 2017, 2 weeks and 5 days at sea. The morning finds Polarstern alongside the ice shelf edge, or, more precisely, at the north-eastern berth of Atka Sea Port.

    • Insurance

      the AWI-Intranet (AWI employees only) or on request from Mrs. Kniemeyer-Schulze. Participants in Polarstern expeditions receive the documents in the Expedition Interface System (EIS).

    • Home

      tenacity and… Find out more Press release The new Polarstern features a high-tech heart The centrepiece of the new construction project for the Polarstern's successor is now taking shape: by the end of August [...] Find out more Press release Summary of the CONTRASTS expedition The comprehensive inventory of Polarstern expedition revealed major differences between the various sea ice regimes and a low sea ice co [...] with several contributions, including lectures, a workshop and a live link to the research vessel “Polarstern”. The event will be broadcast live. More information. Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from

    • 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.

    • Further to the North and two more stations

      and Terror Gulf completing two more stations. Another highlight were curtesy visits between the Polarstern and the Argentinian vessel Almirante Irizar.

    • Turbulent recirculation

      PS100 – Wochenbericht Nr. 2 | 25. Juli - 31. Juli 2016
      Meanwhile R/V Polarstern has reached the northernmost location planned for the GRIFF expedition. The last week was characterized by intense station

    • The Expedition PS 99 from Bremerhaven to Tromsø

      PS99 Summary| 13 June - 16 July 2016
      The RV Polarstern expedition PS99 to the Arctic will start on 13 June 2016 in Bremerhaven and lead to study areas northwest of Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen

    • Business as usual.

      PS 117 – Weekly Report No. 5 | 21 - 27 January 2019.
      Business as usual. Polarstern plows her way through the open waters of the Weddell Sea – the ice cover is at it minimum, subjectively at least –