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    • Expedition „ROBEX-DM“

      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

    • Why the tongue of the Pine Island Glacier suddenly shrank

      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

    • Expedition to Antarctica’s Glaciers

      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 –

    • Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep 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

    • Finally, we are let loose

      departed from Tromsø and enjoyed the marvellous weather. The sun was shining from a blue sky while POLARSTERN passed the fjords towards the North-Atlantic. Finally, we are let loose. In particular, the newbies

    • An entire year trapped in the Arctic ice

      largest-scale Arctic research expedition of all time: in September 2019 the German research icebreaker Polarstern will depart from Tromsø, Norway and, once it has reached its destination, will spend the next year

    • This Evening Sees the Start of MOSAiC – the Greatest Arctic Research Expedition of All Time

      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

    • Record low sea ice cover in the Antarctic

      Southern Hemisphere continues until the end of February. The current expedition team on board RV Polarstern has just reported virtually ice-free conditions in its current research area, the Bellingshausen

    • Under Saharan Dust

      PS95.2 Weekly Report No. 1 | 9 till 15 November 2015
      After 13 days at sea Polarstern reached Las Palmas on the Canary Islands on the 10th November. The team of three geophysicists left the ship and

    • The Tropical North Atlantic: Cold in the Water, Dust in the Sky

      the North-east Trade Wind zone under skies with only a few clouds, but with strong head-winds for Polarstern. By crossing the northern tropic, the Tropic of Cancer, at 23° 26’ 05” North during the night of