same stations on an annual basis. Integrative field survey of the FramJelly project during the R/V Polarstern cruise PS126 (Graphic: Dmitrii Pantiukhin/AWI) How do jellyfish survive in the Polar Night? Which [...] gelatinous zooplankton during several campaigns: RV Heincke HE560 (2020), Walter Herwig WH440 (2020), Polarstern PS126 (FramJelly, 2021) expeditions and the AWIPEV project KOP183 (2022). Sampling for the ARJEL [...] communities. Part of the FramJelly team (collaboration between AWI, GEOMAR & JAMSTEC) onboard R/V Polarstern (PS126), with the towed camera system PELAGIOS from GEOMAR (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI) PhD students

concerns special AWI infrastructure and the opportunities that lie in RV Polarstern and the polar research aircraft. Utilising RV Polarstern to deploy process-relevant studies in the central Arctic should be [...] challenge has recently been the volatility of fuel prices for research vessels, in particular RV Polarstern (Polarstern consumes some 11,000 ton/y; the annual fuel costs have ranged from US$6.6 M to US$14.3 M [...] Mid-Term Evaluation 15 The suggested option of an overlapping period of operations of Polarstern I and Polarstern II (i.e. simultaneous operations in the Arctic and Antarctic) would open great new opp

multi-net Midi (Hydrobios) hauls, we have conducted parallel sampling of zooplankton during a RV Polarstern cruise. Both sampling devices were equipped with nets of 150 µm mesh size and vertically towed

The MOSAiC Expedition
Two-and-a-half years from now, the research vessel Polarstern will depart on an adventurous expedition. For an entire year, the ship will drift through the Arctic, stuck in the

and are operated from the Neumayer - and AWIPEV Stations, as well as from the research icebreaker Polarstern . MOSAiC expedition The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate [...] (MOSAiC) was a major year-long campaign in the Central Arctic Sea ice, using the research icebreaker Polarstern . MOSAiC was a large international effort spearheaded by the Atmospheric Physics Section at AWI [...] coordination of the station. Antarctic To be filled! Text is missing Arctic Ocean (Central Arctic) FS Polarstern MOSAiC (Photo: M. Gutsche) The polar oceans in the Arctic and around Antarctica, characterized

AWIPEV: Temperature AWIPEV: Radiation Data AWIPEV: Ozone data Meteorological observations on-board RV Polarstern Without reliable weather data polar expeditions and the related fieldwork become a dangerous u [...] undertaking. For this reason there are always two meteorologists working on-board Polarstern. They constantly update the captain and officers, the helicopter crew and the chief scientist about the latest [...] essential for forecasting the weather worldwide. Weather balloon (Photo: Esther Horvath) Links Polarstern's Weather Data

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

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

month-long expedition from the Falkland Islands to Bremerhaven on board the research icebreaker Polarstern as part of a summer school. On the ‘South-North Atlantic Training Transect’ they will gain unique

ner-Institut) Zooplankton time series of the Polarstern expeditions Background Several long-term data sets exist which have been collected on RV Polarstern for the past 30 years but these have never previously [...] particularly for the Weddell Sea and adjacent areas such as the Scotia and Lazarev Seas Summary of Polarstern stations in the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled and analyzed (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)