• End of a successful Expedition

    2017
    A world of gigantic icebergs made the scenery which Polarstern passed through on its track from Pine Island Bay to the western Amundsen Sea Embayment. The icebergs are so abundant here because

  • Tracking marine litter in the Arctic from the air

    Marine Litter
    On the current Polarstern expedition, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have deployed a multicopter with a high-resolution camera to quantify

  • Core Repository

    Polarstern Core Repository The section Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores from gravity, piston, kastenlot and giant box corers with a total length

  • Fish and squid found in the Central Arctic Ocean

    the international MOSAiC expedition with research icebreaker Polarstern have found fish and squid in deep water in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. The results from Stockholm University, the Alfred

  • World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

    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

  • From Advent into the New Year

    20 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
    According to the schedule Polarstern left Bremerhaven at high tide and in tight fog on 20th December, 2017. On board are 44 crew members and 9 scientists. There are

  • PS101 KARASIK

    - Weeklý Report No. 1 | 10 - 18 September 2016
    The aim of POLARSTERN expedition PS101 is to study the geophysical, geological, geochemical and biological processes at seamounts and sources of

  • Infrared Based Whale Detection - AWI OZA

    revision too expensive, development discontinued. ANT 23.2 Polarstern Nov 2005 - Dec 2005 Use of same cameras facing strictly forward, but mounted under roof of Polarstern's crow's nest and passively [...] poor (unstable) video data impeding automatic whale detections. Polarstern PS115/1 Aug - Sep 2018 ~60 TByte data collected Ship based operation of FIRST-Navy infrared imager on RV Polarstern for marine [...] On occasion, ship's antennas cause frequent false positives. Polarstern MOSAiC Ship based operation of FIRST-Navy infrared imager on RV Polarstern for polar bear surveillance. PS128 765 h operational

  • Unique concept for observing Arctic sea ice successfully implemented

    The Polarstern recently ended a two-month expedition in the Central Arctic in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The international and interdisciplinary

  • Distributed Network successfully deployed

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