rhythm on board 17. November 2025 We are usually aware that WHAT we do is important. But aboard the Polarstern, you realize that it is also particularly important WHEN we do it: setting sail at high tide, meal [...] beginning of the year, they applied for one of the coveted places on board the research vessel Polarstern. Now the 25 selected young researchers are happily on board. Over the next four weeks, they will

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

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

___ Diving from RV Polarstern RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The research vessel Polarstern operates in the southern and arctic ocean. As an icebreaker RV Polarstern enables to enter ice [...] North Sea or the Atlantic from the RV Heincke . Dives from our larger research vessels (incl. RV Polarstern) are done using RHIB’S or inflatables according to the ESDP-guidelines „Scientific diving from [...] to conduct diving supported underwater research under ice shields. For further details about RV Polarstern click here . _________________________ Diving at the German Polar Station Neumayer III (Antarctica)