PS111 – Weekly Report No. 2 | 27 January - 2 February 2018
Now we have arrived – Polarstern makes her way easily through the disintegrating winter sea ice cover, heading for the northeastern edge of

crews, roughly 100 passengers were on board: researchers and Polarstern crewmembers. The two ships will tentatively rendezvous with the Polarstern near Svalbard this weekend, so that their passengers can relieve

RV Polarstern starts the Arctic season
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards

Trinity College Dublin, will conduct its fifth training expedition on board its icebreaker RV Polarstern, Germany's largest research vessel. We are offering 20 training scholarships and, for the first [...] data series on the North-South (NoSoAT) and South-North (SoNoAT) transits of the icebreaker RV Polarstern. All 25 successful scholars will be divided into five groups. These groups of five will rotate

Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Bremen. On an expedition with the research icebreaker POLARSTERN, researchers discovered the northernmost hydrothermal field on Earth here – only around 300 kilometers

boden-basierte Messungen in Ny-Alesund auf Spitzbergen, als auch Messungen mit dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern. Die Expedition wurde von der Malerin und Illustratorin Kerstin Heymach begleitet. In Pastellz

boden-basierte Messungen in Ny-Alesund auf Spitzbergen, als auch Messungen mit dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern. Die Expedition wurde von der Malerin und Illustratorin Kerstin Heymach begleitet. In Pastellz

vent fields during expedition PS137 on board the icebreakers Polarstern and Kronprins Haakon. Icebreakers Kronprins Haakon and Polarstern at the Aurora Hydrothermal Ventfield (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Polarstern Expedition
Under the ice of the Arctic, unknown habitats conceal an unexpected variety of living beings. On October 23rd, 46 scientists are expected to return to the home port in Bremerhaven [...] Bremerhaven from an Arctic expedition with the research vessel Polarstern. Over the past six weeks, they had explored life in ice, ocean and seabed with new robots and camera systems.

dsbreen. More information is provided following the links to GROCE und SPP-OGreen . Fig. 4: RV Polarstern at the calving front of 79-North Glacier. Normally, thick fast ice blocks access to the glacier [...] glacier, but in boreal summer 2016 the bay was ice-free for several weeks allowing RV Polarstern to conduct comprehensive oceanographic measurements. (Photo: Nat Wilson) Contacts Dr. Markus Janout +49(471)4831-1981