• Ice and water in the Filchner Depression

      February 2018
      Favourable ice conditions and stable weather with southwesterly winds enabled Polarstern to go far south into the Filchner Depression and to cross directly in front of the Filchner Ice

    • Week 2 at the ice floe

      online and off-line instrumentation (high volume and size-resolved samplers), was installed on Polarstern on the upper deck to measure in-situ atmospheric aerosol physical-chemical properties.

    • Further to the North and two more stations

      and Terror Gulf completing two more stations. Another highlight were curtesy visits between the Polarstern and the Argentinian vessel Almirante Irizar.

    • Turbulent recirculation

      PS100 – Wochenbericht Nr. 2 | 25. Juli - 31. Juli 2016
      Meanwhile R/V Polarstern has reached the northernmost location planned for the GRIFF expedition. The last week was characterized by intense station

    • The Expedition PS 99 from Bremerhaven to Tromsø

      PS99 Summary| 13 June - 16 July 2016
      The RV Polarstern expedition PS99 to the Arctic will start on 13 June 2016 in Bremerhaven and lead to study areas northwest of Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen

    • Same procedure as every year: „Gardening“ in the deep Arctic Ocean

      students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second leg of RV “Polarstern” expedition PS93.

    • At Neumayer Station

      3 | 4 January – 8 January 2017
      4 January 2017, 2 weeks and 5 days at sea. The morning finds Polarstern alongside the ice shelf edge, or, more precisely, at the north-eastern berth of Atka Sea Port.

    • Insurance

      the AWI-Intranet (AWI employees only) or on request from Mrs. Kniemeyer-Schulze. Participants in Polarstern expeditions receive the documents in the Expedition Interface System (EIS).

    • MOSAiC Expedition

      Arctic research expedition of all time: From autumn 2019 onwards, the German research icebreaker Polarstern drifted through the Arctic Ocean, trapped in the ice. Participants from institutions from more [...] 2020. For those who want to reminisce: here is the video for Welcome back. MOSAiC - Welcome Back, Polarstern! MOSAiC TV documentary The TV documentary will be available in the ARD media library until 2 November [...] project website presents more profound scientific information Find out more News Info Graphics Polarstern Infographic The transpolar drift The expedition in numbers Factsheet on Sustainability

    • The Drake Passage – Second Traverse

      PS97 Weekly Report No. 5 | 14. - 20. March 2016
      During the fifth week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 we left the Antarctic Peninsula area close to Elephant Island to start our second Drake Passage