r a decade of preparations, it’s finally time: this evening at 8:30 p.m. the German icebreaker Polarstern will depart from the Norwegian port of Tromsø. Escorted by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov

buoys and measurement instruments that is now drifting in the environs of the central observatory Polarstern in a distance of up to 50 kilometres.

Polarstern Expedition
Under the ice of the Arctic, unknown habitats conceal an unexpected variety of living beings. On October 23rd, 46 scientists are expected to return to the home port in Bremerhaven [...] Bremerhaven from an Arctic expedition with the research vessel Polarstern. Over the past six weeks, they had explored life in ice, ocean and seabed with new robots and camera systems.

observing aircrafts (DC3s) with airborne observatories, large ocean and ice breaking vessels (e. g. RV POLARSTERN) and specialized shelf sea research vessels. The AWI fosters polar and marine science all over [...] Fri September 2019 Clothes; Preparing ICYMARE; topics Scholar's lecture;Climate Strike; Farewell Polarstern? Dr.Eva Brodte Bekleidungslager 21 Sat September 2019 22 Sun September 2019 Klimahaus 23 Mon September [...] (REKLIM). Peter Lemke participated in eleven expeditions with the German research icebreaker “Polarstern”. On six expeditions, he acted as chief scientist. In 2016, he was appointed Lead Author for the

Furthermore, strategic replacements of LKII infrastructures during PoF IV are planned: Polarstern II for Polarstern (call for tender ongoing); Meteor IV for both Meteor III and Poseidon (likely to be operated [...] .................................................................................... 269 11 RV Polarstern .............................................................................................. [...] our Future’.XVIII Abbreviations and Acronyms RVHE Research Vessel Heincke RVPS Research Vessel Polarstern RWTH Aachen Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, RWTH Aachen University S2S Su

Award
Caught in the glare of Polarstern’s spotlights, a curious mother polar bear and her cub explore the MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred

destination, and finally, at 12:20 pm (CET) on Friday, 28 February, dropped anchor 970 metres from Polarstern, moored to the same floe. While the handover is in full swing on the MOSAiC floe, in Russia another

MOSAiC Expedition
Despite the current challenges, the MOSAiC expedition will continue. After many national borders were closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, one team transfer had to be p

crews, roughly 100 passengers were on board: researchers and Polarstern crewmembers. The two ships will tentatively rendezvous with the Polarstern near Svalbard this weekend, so that their passengers can relieve

MOSAiC Expedition
After a month’s absence, on 17 June the German research icebreaker Polarstern rendezvoused with the MOSAiC floe at 82.2 ° North and 8.4 ° East, after having left it on 19 May 2020