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

somewhat older models, like the Polarstern, which has been traversing the icy waters of the high north and deep south since 1982. On an average of 300 days a year, the Polarstern can be found forging her way [...] deliver a better eco-balance than other forms of transportation, but also because on board the Polarstern, the available resources are used as sparingly as possible. For example, the 118-metre-long ship [...] dioxide. Moreover, the ship doesn’t run on fuel oil, but diesel, a significantly cleaner choice. “The Polarstern bunkers the cleanest variant available, DMA, which is nearly as good as the diesel used in commercial

Thursday flight plans to Polarstern were again cancelled due to bad weather. On all other days joint Polar 5 and 6 flights could be flown; including three more meetings with RV Polarstern. Unfortunately, the [...] to the campaign. Boundary layer profiles could be measured at 5 separate locations downwind of Polarstern which would not have been possible with a single polar aircraft. The extended duration of Polar [...] with a well-defined layer of low-level clouds and scattered clouds above dominated the area of Polarstern. This situation was used to extensively probe the boundary layer along the northerly flow at different

buoys and measurement instruments that is now drifting in the environs of the central observatory Polarstern in a distance of up to 50 kilometres.

reliable positioning data? Engineers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker Polarstern specially programmed a multicopter, allowing it to navigate despite the deviations produced by

2019
After the departure from Punta Arenas and an 8-hourly passage through the Magellan Strait RV Polarstern started a 4-day transit bound for South Georgia. This time without station work was used by our