• Information for Expedition Participants

    necessary national permits . Polarstern Expedition participants: Polarstern-Wiki EIS - Expedition Interface System EIS - General info and wiki Deadlines 360 degr. tour Map of Polarstern General arrangement plan [...] valid for most expeditions Personal questionnaire This section does not apply to expeditions with Polarstern, Heincke, Uthörn, Mya II and Aade and participation in all land expeditions to the Antarctic (e [...] questionnaire Medical questionnaire Not necessary for expeditions with Uthörn, Mya II or Aade. RV Polarstern, RV Heincke, Neumayer III, and Kohnen expeditions: Participants will get all information and the

  • Home

    supported AWI research in the Arctic and Antarctic, both on land and at sea. Laeisz has operated the Polarstern since New Year's Eve 1995. On 15 January, the AWI honoured this successful collaboration during [...] and international cooperation. Reception in Namibia 15. December 2025 To mark the arrival of the Polarstern in Walvis Bay, Dr Thorsten Hutter, the German Ambassador to Namibia, visited the ship with his [...] MOSAiC It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift. Find out more UN Ocean Conference 2025 Find out more UN Decade

  • Port Warehouse

    "Kaiserhafen" on the premises of the Lloyd shipyard in immediate vicinity to the regular berth of "Polarstern" and other research and supply vessels. It offers a space of 4.800 m² for storage and handling [...] year about 200 special containers and containers with expedition freight are handled. When loading Polarstern, between 2.500 and 3.000 packages are being lifted over the railing. The port warehouse is located

  • Iron limitation and cycling

    board the RV Polarstern in collaboration with Dr. Christel Hassler (Swiss Polar Institute) from 16 February 2016 to 8th April 2016 (PS97, ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016

  • CTD Instrument and Water Sampler

    CTD and Water Sampler A water sampler with a CTD probe is being deployed from the research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The CTD is an oceanographic instrument

  • Research

    ic accessions of the Hustedt collection, as well as extending them by new collections on board Polarstern . We are working on improving mobilization of taxon observation records backed up by voucher images

  • Physical Oceanography

    the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans for a changing climate and the polar ecosystems. Polarstern in der Arktis / Polarstern in the Arctic Contact Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow +49(471)4831-2913 Torsten.Kanzow @

  • Grazers impact on Fe biogeochemistry

    The impact of krill and salps on Fe biogeochemistry in Fe-limited oceanic waters The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] experiments with grazers (krill and salps) and their grazing products will be performed during the Polarstern expedition PS112 in the northern WAP in 2018. This project will be carried out in close cooperation

  • Central Arctic

    the upper Arctic basins (Figure 1). In addition to research cruises by icebreaking ships, e.g. Polarstern and air-supported spring expeditions, autonomous ice-tethered buoy systems like FRAM or MIDO have

  • Engergy Budgets

    ocean (transmittance). We perform various radiation measurements during our field campaigns using Polarstern, aircrafts, and stationary measurements. Our focus are observations that aim for better descriptions