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

PS108 - Weekly Report No. 1. | 22 - 28 August 2017
On Tuesday August 22 at 19:00 POLARSTERN left Tromsö with an unusual freight on board into direction of Svalbard. Unusual, because 10 of the 40 scientists

from its floating tongue. In February 2017, researchers on board the German research icebreaker Polarstern successfully mapped an area of seafloor previously covered by shelf ice. A comparison of these

to these key questions, 50 researchers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research vessel Polarstern are going to depart from Punta Arenas (Chile) on 6 February 2017, bound for the Amundsen Sea –

Bremerhaven and Kiel and their international partners discovered this unique hotspot of life during a POLARSTERN expedition and now report their findings in the journal Nature Communications . They stress the

Thursday flight plans to Polarstern were again cancelled due to bad weather. On all other days joint Polar 5 and 6 flights could be flown; including three more meetings with RV Polarstern. Unfortunately, the [...] to the campaign. Boundary layer profiles could be measured at 5 separate locations downwind of Polarstern which would not have been possible with a single polar aircraft. The extended duration of Polar [...] with a well-defined layer of low-level clouds and scattered clouds above dominated the area of Polarstern. This situation was used to extensively probe the boundary layer along the northerly flow at different

somewhat older models, like the Polarstern, which has been traversing the icy waters of the high north and deep south since 1982. On an average of 300 days a year, the Polarstern can be found forging her way [...] deliver a better eco-balance than other forms of transportation, but also because on board the Polarstern, the available resources are used as sparingly as possible. For example, the 118-metre-long ship [...] dioxide. Moreover, the ship doesn’t run on fuel oil, but diesel, a significantly cleaner choice. “The Polarstern bunkers the cleanest variant available, DMA, which is nearly as good as the diesel used in commercial

Report No. 1 | 12 - 17 September 2017
In the evening of 12 September the research icebreaker R/V Polarstern left the port of Tromsø (Norway). On board there are scientists from seven nations who cover the

MOSAiC
At 12:45 pm on 19 August 2020 the German research icebreaker Polarstern reached the North Pole. The ship followed a route to the north of Greenland – and through a region that, in the past, was

Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Bremen. On an expedition with the research icebreaker POLARSTERN, researchers discovered the northernmost hydrothermal field on Earth here – only around 300 kilometers