• Antje Boetius once again appointed Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute

      largest expedition in the institute’s history, and paved the way for the construction of the new Polarstern II. Despite the numerous crises currently facing our world, her plans for the years to come remain

    • Taking to the highsea with a young research spirit

      On board the Polarstern research vessel, an international group of young scientists will immerse in the fascinating world of marine research. They are not only learning the basic methods of oceanography

    • Eyewitnesses to Arctic Change

      ArcWatch 1
      On Thursday, 3 August 2023, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to set off from Tromsø, Norway, towards the North Pole. For two months, a good fifty scientific expedition participants

    • The latest findings on the MOSAiC floe

      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

    • The grand finale to the expedition of a century

      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

    • Arctic Pulse

      ecosystems. The campaign integrates ship-based observations from the German research icebreaker RV Polarstern (Expedition BeauPAIR) and the Canadian icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, complemented by airborne surveys [...] global climate feedbacks, and the livelihoods and food security of Inuvialuit communities. RV Polarstern in the Arctic Ocean (Photo: Esther Horvath) From the boreal forest and tundra to the deep ocean [...] Thomas Krumpen Gesine Mollenhauer Anne Morgenstern Project website: www.arcticpulse.ca The Polarstern cruise The main goal of the BeauPAIR campaign (PS161 and PS162) is to assess the effects of hu

    • Seal research in Antarctica

      changes for the biodiversity in this area. Physical, biogeochemical and ecological studies with Polarstern in the FOS in the southern Weddell Sea shall characterize this hotspot in detail in order to recognize

    • Seafloor spreading

      North American plate drift apart by a few millimetres every year. Using the research icebreaker “POLARSTERN” scientists study this system of ridges and investigate the effects of the mechanisms involved

    • Dr. Holger Schmithüsen

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