• Transit cruise from Punta Arenas to Las Palmas

    PS105 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 20 March - 11 April 2017
    This year’s return journey of RV Polarstern from Antarctica began with the departure in Punta Arenas in the evening of March 20, 2017. We left

  • Adventure in the Ice

    The MOSAiC Expedition
    Two-and-a-half years from now, the research vessel Polarstern will depart on an adventurous expedition. For an entire year, the ship will drift through the Arctic, stuck in the

  • Begin of the Antartic Season

    PS116 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 11 - 18 November 2018
    RV Polarstern left Bremerhaven on 11th November with the high tide around noon. Due to extensive necessary amendments in the shipyard, the departure

  • At Neumayer Station

    PS117 - Weekly Report No. 4 | 13 - 20 January 2019.
    Neumayer, finally! Polarstern took berth about 20 km north of the German Antarctic Station (officially named Neumayer Station III) at the extreme

  • 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

  • Comprehensive assessment of the changing Central Arctic Ocean

    are the impressions and outcomes that an international research team is now bringing back from a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s

  • Last full week of calm seas until Cape Town

    the past couple weeks we have reached South Africa and shut down the hydroacoustics, as well as Polarsterns underway measurements. Underway CTD casts of two times per day have also ended. This was the last

  • The 100th expedition

    Weekly Report No. 1 | 18 July - 24y July 2016
    In the evening of 18 July the research ice breaker Polarstern left the port of Tromsö (Norway) in cloudy and windy conditions to start its 100th expedition.

  • Core Repository

    Polarstern Core Repository The section 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

  • Purchasing

    ra und Confluence Jahreslizenzen 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