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

PS106/2 - Weekly Report No. 7 | 2 - 9 July 2017
During our northward transect, Polarstern bit its way through heavy sea ice, hard as concrete and covered with a thick layer of snow. This altogether

2019
About a week ago, in the evening hours of August 10 in Bremerhaven, it was “lines off” for Polarstern, as she set course through the initially calm sea towards the long-term observatory area Hausgarten

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

Weekly Report No. 5 | 6 - 12 March 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

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 gimballed against [...] 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 mammal mitigation during seismic [...] 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 FIRST-Navy

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 and photo editor at the Alfred

PS110 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 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

expected. Scientists participating in 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

PS101 - 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