• RV Polarstern arrives in Cape Town

      Education and Training
      The German research vessel Polarstern will arrive tomorrow in Cape Town after a five week voyage. During this training cruise from Bremerhaven to South Africa 32 international

    • Under Saharan Dust

      PS95.2 Weekly Report No. 1 | 9 till 15 November 2015
      After 13 days at sea Polarstern reached Las Palmas on the Canary Islands on the 10th November. The team of three geophysicists left the ship and

    • The “floating summer school” begins

      2015
      On Tuesday October 29, 2015 was cast off at 13:00 h on the dot. Two tugboats maneuvered Polarstern into the lock. Once in the Weser she starts steaming and leaves Bremerhaven southbound for the

    • The Polarstern-Expedition PS95

      PS95 Summary| 29 October till 2 December 2015 (Bremerhaven - Cape Town)
      The expedition PS 95 is split in two legs: PS95.1 transit cruise from Bremerhaven to Las Palmas and PS 95.2 from Las Palmas t

    • Polarstern Embarks for Cape Town on Training Cruise

      Floating Summer School
      On 29 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport in Bremerhaven for Cape Town, South Africa, where it is expected to arrive on 1 December. She’ll

    • Research icebreaker Polarstern returns from the Antarctic prematurely

      Press release
      The German research icebreaker Polarstern will end its current expedition to the Antarctic earlier than planned. Due to hydraulic problems in the port engine, the ship will return to

    • Polarstern returns from the Arctic after a five-month journey

      Expedition
      On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), entered its homeport in Bremerhaven [...] personnel in Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen) and Tromsø (Norway). In the course of these five months, Polarstern covered over 16,000 nautical miles (more than 30,000 kilometres).

    • Into the ice – RV Polarstern opens the arctic season by setting course for Spitsbergen

      Press release
      On Tuesday, 19 May 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute

    • From Longyearbyen through Fram Strait towards Northeast Greenland

      Weekly Report No. 1 | 29 June to 5 July 2015
      At 8:00 am the embarkment of scientists starts. As Polarstern cannot enter the harbor pier directly, people have to use the Zodiac (Fig.1).

    • The Polarstern Expedition PS93.2

      PS93.2 Summary | 21 July till15 August 2015
      The scientific work during the expedition PS93.2 will support the time-series studies at the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) observatory HAUSGARTEN,