• Polarstern Sets Sail for the Arctic

    Arctic Expedition
    On Whit Monday, 24 May 2021, the Polarstern will set sail for the Arctic. In Fram Strait, between Greenland and Svalbard, more than 50 participating scientists will resume the long-term

  • Multi Plankton Sampler

    Filled beakers are collected after multinet is back on deck Multinet is set out on board of RV Polarstern Multinet is ready for deployment Multinet in the water The Multi Plankton Sampler MPS 92B is used

  • 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

  • “Groundwork”

    we will provide details about the work of the benthologists and seafloor biogeochemists during Polarstern expedition PS126; their goal is to investigate organisms and processes at the deep seafloor.

  • Hausgarten Expedition ends

    Arctic
    On Sunday afternoon, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten [...] 20 years of long-term research on the effects of global climate change on the Arctic ecosystem. Polarstern will spend the coming months in the shipyard for extensive maintenance work.

  • Back Again: First deployed buoy from the MOSAiC expedition

    the Polarstern to the Central Arctic. It was the first buoy to be sent off during the MOSAiC expedition. It was part of the "Distributed Network," a large buoy network that drifted around Polarstern at

  • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

    for diver safety in the vicinity of Polarstern, and PAM recordings at a separate site 60nm from Polarstern for 12h at 192 kHz. 2005 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXII/3 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0533_2006 [...] monitoring. 2014/15 Acoustic mensuration of RV Polarstern during expedition PS89 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0689_2015 To capture the sound field of RV Polarstern as experienced by a marine mammal close to [...] this species' behavioural activity. 2010/11 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXVII/2 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0634_2011 Field Recordings at Rothera 2009 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXV/2 doi.org/10.2

  • Research icebreaker Polarstern departs for the Fram Strait

    Arctic Expedition
    On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport in Bremerhaven, headed for the Arctic. The main focus of the journey will be on long-term oceanographic

  • Current research

    New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic Scientists and members of the Polarstern crew lift a box corer on board. The box corer was used to recover a sediment core from the ocean [...] doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00552-1 . Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow Moments on-board Polarstern: Waves (Photo: Mario Hoppmann) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [06 July 2017] Throughout the last

  • Other expeditions, abstracts, proceedings

    stringent structuring concept has been implemented in compiling the final expedition reports of "Polarstern" to be published in the "Reports on Polar and Marine Research". Apart from the bibliometric entry