Larsen C Ice Shelf Remains a Mystery

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

Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

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

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

Crossing the equator

PS98 Weekly report No. 3 | 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”

Sub-Antarctic Islands

PS97 Weekly 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

Water World

about the work of the phyto-opticians, biogeochemists, planktologists and sedimentologist during RV Polarstern expedition PS99.2. Their goal is to investigate the organisms and processes in the water column

Research infrastructure

Bremerhaven Nutrient Facility Observatories Ocean: FRAM Water: COSYNA Meteorology Geophysics Ships Polarstern Heincke Uthörn Mya II Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Arctic Station AWIPEV Kohnen Station Marine

Tools

Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores from gravity, piston, kastenlot and giant [...] giant box corers with a total length of more 12000 m as well as samples from multi corers. Polarstern Core Repository We develop the Ocean Data View (ODV) software for the analysis and visualization of

Purchasing

u. Bodenbelagsarb., Renovierungen Tender Polarstern II Construction and ready-to-operate delivery of the icebreaking polar research and supply vessel POLARSTERN II PLEASE NOTE: Series of scams - bogus orders

Locations and Facilities

___ Diving from RV Polarstern RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The research vessel Polarstern operates in the southern and arctic ocean. As an icebreaker RV Polarstern enables to enter ice [...] North Sea or the Atlantic from the RV Heincke . Dives from our larger research vessels (incl. RV Polarstern) are done using RHIB’S or inflatables according to the ESDP-guidelines „Scientific diving from [...] to conduct diving supported underwater research under ice shields. For further details about RV Polarstern click here . _________________________ Diving at the German Polar Station Neumayer III (Antarctica)