Antarctic phytoplankton ecology & biogeochemistry

water and dust. Since 2022, we have used this Ultra Clean Sampling device successfully during the Polarstern expeditions the G EOTRACES Process Study PS133 Island Impact and the GEOTRACES cruise ArcWatch

Antarctic season ends this weekend

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

Antje Boetius once again appointed Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute

largest expedition in the institute’s history, and paved the way for the construction of the new Polarstern II. Despite the numerous crises currently facing our world, her plans for the years to come remain

Archive Related Publications

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

Archive for German Polar Research

researcher catalogue - available only in German, too), on the AWI's Research Vessel "Polarstern (i. e. the Polarstern-Chronicle ) and on the AdP (further readings). Information and Knowledge Ressources

Arctic plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux

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

At Neumayer Station

PS117 - Weekly Report No. 4 | 13 - 20 January 2019.
Neumayer, finally! Polarstern took berth about 20 km north of the German Antarctic Station (officially named Neumayer Station III) at the extreme

At Neumayer Station

3 | 4 January – 8 January 2017
4 January 2017, 2 weeks and 5 days at sea. The morning finds Polarstern alongside the ice shelf edge, or, more precisely, at the north-eastern berth of Atka Sea Port.

At the 79° Glacier

2016
Yesterday we finished our investigations in the close vicinity of the 79°N glacier. Now R/V Polarstern is exploring the southern end of Westwind Trough on the inner shelf. We had already paid a visit

Automatic Weather Stations

long-term measurements in Antarctica, ( Neumayer_III ), in the Arctic (AWIPEV ) and on the oceans ( Polarstern ) automatic weather stations (AWS) are in use. The numbers of the AWS-systems and their locations