Arctic
On Sunday afternoon, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten [...] 20 years of long-term research on the effects of global climate change on the Arctic ecosystem. Polarstern will spend the coming months in the shipyard for extensive maintenance work.

the Polarstern to the Central Arctic. It was the first buoy to be sent off during the MOSAiC expedition. It was part of the "Distributed Network," a large buoy network that drifted around Polarstern at

for diver safety in the vicinity of Polarstern, and PAM recordings at a separate site 60nm from Polarstern for 12h at 192 kHz. 2005 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXII/3 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0533_2006 [...] monitoring. 2014/15 Acoustic mensuration of RV Polarstern during expedition PS89 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0689_2015 To capture the sound field of RV Polarstern as experienced by a marine mammal close to [...] this species' behavioural activity. 2010/11 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXVII/2 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0634_2011 Field Recordings at Rothera 2009 Polarstern expedition ANT-XXV/2 doi.org/10.2

Arctic Expedition
On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport in Bremerhaven, headed for the Arctic. The main focus of the journey will be on long-term oceanographic

New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic Scientists and members of the Polarstern crew lift a box corer on board. The box corer was used to recover a sediment core from the ocean [...] doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00552-1 . Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow Moments on-board Polarstern: Waves (Photo: Mario Hoppmann) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [06 July 2017] Throughout the last

stringent structuring concept has been implemented in compiling the final expedition reports of "Polarstern" to be published in the "Reports on Polar and Marine Research". Apart from the bibliometric entry

No. 1 | 5 - 11 December 2021
After a snowy Bremerhaven departure on Dec 5 th 2021 at 13:00, Polarstern made its way through the port, the locks and towards the English Channel.

of Sea Research. doi: 10.1016/j.seares.2015.03.004 . Salewski, Christian R.; Löschke, Sina: RV Polarstern - glimpses of its history, Bremerhaven 2015. Salewski, C. (2017): Die stille Frühgeschichte der

Expedition start
On the 6th of January, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town in South Africa for an expedition of around eight weeks to the Antarctic. Extensive preventative measures [...] further planned expeditions in the coming years. Interested parties can follow this and subsequent Polarstern expeditions live in a new app.

Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Alexandra Kraberg Atmosphere Antarctic (Neumayer-Station III) Arctic (AWIPEV) Polarstern (Ice breaker) Automatic Weather Stations Geophysics Seismics (Neumayer-Station III) Magnetics