Research Vessel Polarstern setting out for the Arctic - Focusing on changes in the ice cover, ocean currents and effects on the marine biota

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    Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

    Research ice breaker Polarstern The Polarstern app Position and weather data in real time as well as up-to-date photos and reports from aboard the Polarstern several times a week: the AWI flagship has [...] regarding the new research icebreaker Polarstern for the AWI. Student training on Polarstern’s transit to the Antarctic This weekend, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to depart from her homeport [...] research vessel Polarstern drives through the polar regions of our earth in the service of science. Not a jam bucket View back into the chronicle of the research ice breaker Polarstern from the construction

    Research Vessel and cutter

    The fleet of the Alfred Wegener Institute RV Polarstern RV Mya II RV Heincke MB Aade FS Uthörn Old Uthörn

    Research around the North Pole - RV Polarstern returns home after its expedition through the Northeast and Northwest Passages

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    Research at the Filchner Outflow System

    changes for the biodiversity in this area. Physical, biogeochemical and ecological studies with Polarstern in the FOS in the southern Weddell Sea shall characterize this hotspot in detail in order to recognize

    Research icebreaker Polarstern begins the Antarctic season

    Expedition starts
    Due to retarded work on the Polarstern the departure is delayed - On Sunday, 11 November 2018, the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport of Bremerhaven, bound for

    Research icebreaker Polarstern departs for the Fram Strait

    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

    Research icebreaker Polarstern returns from the Antarctic prematurely

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    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

    Research icebreaker ‘Polarstern’ drifting in Antarctic ice

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    Research in the Southern Ocean

    everyone’s work on board, it is critically important to those whose research activities rely on Polarstern’s two helicopters. On this expedition, two teams alternate use of the helicopters: the sea ice team