• Fish and squid found in the Central Arctic Ocean

      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 KARASIK

      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

    • Week 7: In the deep Arctic Ocean

      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

    • Stormy start

      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

    • Tracking marine litter in the Arctic from the air

      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

    • End of a successful Expedition

      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

    • Tools

      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 from gravity, piston, kastenlot and giant [...] giant box corers with a total length of more 12000 m as well as samples from multi corers. Polarstern Core Repository We develop the Ocean Data View (ODV) software for the analysis and visualization of

    • Adventure in the Ice

      The MOSAiC Expedition
      Two-and-a-half years from now, the research vessel Polarstern will depart on an adventurous expedition. For an entire year, the ship will drift through the Arctic, stuck in the

    • Begin of the Antartic Season

      PS116 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 11 - 18 November 2018
      RV Polarstern left Bremerhaven on 11th November with the high tide around noon. Due to extensive necessary amendments in the shipyard, the departure

    • At Neumayer Station

      PS117 - Weekly Report No. 4 | 13 - 20 January 2019.
      Neumayer, finally! Polarstern took berth about 20 km north of the German Antarctic Station (officially named Neumayer Station III) at the extreme