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, this season all the staff who

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 ridges blocked

biogeochemists, planktologists and sedimentologist during RV Polarstern expedition PS99.2. Their goal is to investigate the organisms and processes in the water column.

Report No. 4 | 7 - 13 March 2016
The fourth week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 was entirely devoted to work on and surrounding the Sub-Antarctic Islands. For many of us this week will remain

| 25 April - 1 May 2016
On Tuesday last week, the route of Polarstern towards its home base crossed the equator. Shortly after that we also traversed the “atmospheric equator”, the so-called Intertropical

Ocean: FRAM Water: COSYNA Meteorology Geophysics Ships Polarstern Heincke Uthörn Mya II Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Arctic Station AWIPEV Kohnen Station Marine Stations Helgoland and Sylt

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 thickness measurements in the [...] 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 a hemispherical scale.

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 will contribute to the field [...] 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 program. Beyond this, various

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

AWI expeditions and the RV Polarstern?" Do I have the right discipline? We run a multidisciplinary approach and we are aiming for a good balance between the fields of [...] do I find further information on AWI expeditions and the RV Polarstern? To learn more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the AWI website [...] Polarstern+-+Wiki Questions and Answers We hope that our Q and A section is helpful, if you still have questions don't hesitate to contact