Siberian Islands were the birthplace of the MOSAiC floe: the sea ice in which the research vessel Polarstern is now drifting through the Arctic was formed off the coast of the archipelago, which separates

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

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

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

After more than a year in the Central Arctic, this Monday, 12 October, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Accompanied by a ‘welcome committee’ of ships that came

Polarstern Expedition
The world’s second-largest ice shelf was the destination for a Polarstern expedition that ended in Punta Arenas, Chile on 14 th March 2018. Oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener

field expedition to the Central Arctic ever. Key element is the drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern frozen into the pack ice over an entire year. Over all, more than 300 scientists from 17 countries [...] to analyzing and exploiting the data over the coming years to decades. Beyond an ice camp around Polarstern, a distributed network of observations, airborne and satellite observations contribute to the field

Ocean Science UN Plastics Treaty UN Ocean Treaty Expedition Ships Polarstern The symbol of german polar research Chronicle New Polarstern Heincke Mya II Uthörn More Ships Stations Neumayer Station III Library [...] Automatic aerosol sampling at Kohnen Technical details Automatic aerosol sampler Results from Roberta Polarstern Synoptic Observations Code Upper Air Soundings continuous Sensors Ceilometer Automatic Weather

gravity meters from LaCoste and Romberg for the purpose of these so-called tie measurements. On board Polarstern, underway measurements are made using a KSS-32 gravimeter from Bodenseewerke. Airborne measurements

Heincke Sampling in Zodiac, King George Island Sampling of glacier meltwater, King George Island Polarstern brine sampling in the central Arctic sea ice samlpling in the central Arctic ice-tank experiment