Seafloor Tools for Integrative Management of Marine Protected Areas Seafloor of the Weddell Sea. RV Polarstern expedition PS118 (2019). (Photo: Autun Purser (AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) BEnToolsMaPs:

(0)471 4831-1566 Project Polarstern II In May 2020 the AWI was appointed to conduct a new process for the acquisition of a new ice-breaking research and supply vessel Polarstern II by the board of trustees [...] of primary importance for AWI are bundled in the staff unit Project Polarstern II. Contact: Detlef Wilde Stabsstelle Projekt Polarstern II Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

same stations on an annual basis. Integrative field survey of the FramJelly project during the R/V Polarstern cruise PS126 (Graphic: Dmitrii Pantiukhin/AWI) How do jellyfish survive in the Polar Night? Which [...] gelatinous zooplankton during several campaigns: RV Heincke HE560 (2020), Walter Herwig WH440 (2020), Polarstern PS126 (FramJelly, 2021) expeditions and the AWIPEV project KOP183 (2022). Sampling for the ARJEL [...] communities. Part of the FramJelly team (collaboration between AWI, GEOMAR & JAMSTEC) onboard R/V Polarstern (PS126), with the towed camera system PELAGIOS from GEOMAR (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI) PhD students

platforms provides information on phytoplankton composition and particle size distribution. On board of POLARSTERN, state of the art underway-measuring systems have been installed, their reliability is frequently

x 25 km, ice thickness: 100 to 600 m). In 2016, we reached the glacier’s calving front with R/V Polarstern —the first research vessel ever to do so—and discovered an astonishingly rapid inflow of warm Atlantic

meteorological and aerosol/trace gas observatories in Antarctica and the meteorological observatory on Polarstern and frequently uses the Polar aircraft. We train machine-learning models to improve our understanding

biogeochemical cycles in… Find out more MOSAiC In September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern set sail from Tromsø to drift in the Arctic Ocean for a year—trapped in the ice. The goal of the

Training program: International guest scientists Ship-based training with e.g. RV Heincke or RV Polarstern Transferable skills courses Career workshops and information events Financial support for: Continuing

plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux under climate change Sampling at the ice edge with Polarstern; left rosette sampling system, right sediment trap, middle sedimenting matter in 300m depth at

multi-disciplinary teams. The infrastructure we are using are AWI’s airborne platforms Polar 5/6 and Polarstern, the permanent and summer stations Neumayer III and Kohnen, ice and clean room laboratories, ice