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

Bremerhaven and Kiel and their international partners discovered this unique hotspot of life during a POLARSTERN expedition and now report their findings in the journal Nature Communications . They stress the

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

the past couple weeks we have reached South Africa and shut down the hydroacoustics, as well as Polarsterns underway measurements. Underway CTD casts of two times per day have also ended. This was the last

Expedition
After half a year in the Southern Hemisphere, the research icebreaker Polarstern will soon return to her homeport, Bremerhaven. Following a season of work focusing on sea ice, the icebreaker

and snow program of the MOSAiC expedition. During the one-year drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern, he himself spent five months on board of the vessel. Marcel Nicolaus is heavily involved in training

ported the expedition. RV Polarstern Akademik Fedorov Kapitan Dranitsyn Admiral Makarov RV Maria S. Merian RV Sonne Akademik Tryoshnikov 3,400 km: is the distance the Polarstern drifted on a zigzagging course [...] course, covering a distance of 1,923 km in the process Polarstern was up to 1,500 km from the nearest human settle- ment. Record: during the drift Polarstern reaches 88°36‘ North, just 156 km from the North [...] several metres thick, was ca. 1.5 metres thick. 337 scientists and experts and 105 crewmembers of Polarstern were part of MOSAiC. In addition, there were hundreds of people on the supply vessels and on land