• Expedition

    Expeditions Polarstern PS128 | EASI-1 | East Antarctic Continental Margin Start: 2022-01-06 End: 2022-02-28 Chief Scientist: R. Tiedemann Cruise report PS104 | ASE-MeBo | Amundsen Sea Embayment Start:

  • Beyond iron: vitamins, zinc and cobalt

    shipboard manipulation experiments with natural phytoplankton assemblages are planned onboard the Polarstern in the austral summers of 2016 and 2017. In addition, in situ uptake rates and measurements of

  • 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

  • Other expeditions, abstracts, proceedings

    stringent structuring concept has been implemented in compiling the final expedition reports of "Polarstern" to be published in the "Reports on Polar and Marine Research". Apart from the bibliometric entry

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns

  • Research Focus

    and information form the base for new IODP/ICDP drill proposals. Formation of the Arctic Basin Polarstern for geophysics in the Arctic Ocean Research projects on the formation of the Arctic Ocean Development

  • SNOWflAke

    Expedition to the Weddell Sea December 2024 to March 2025 | RV Polarstern | Stefanie Arndt and Daria Paul joined expedition PS146 aboard RV Polarstern to study the physical and biological properties of the sea [...] Fast ice program Fast ice program at Neumayer Station FlAke News Komm an Bord! January 2026 | RV Polarstern | We're taking you along on the expedition — through our blog and your questions, you can look

  • PERPLEX

    The software was developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute and used during many cruises of the RV Polarstern. PERPLEX allows scientists and chief scientist as well as logisticians and nautical personnel to

  • Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

    instruments that are towed 12 to 20 meters above the ice surface using helicopters from land or from RV Polarstern. Since 2009, AEM measurements are also conducted with the research aircraft Polar 5 operating from

  • Ocean-Ice Shelf Interaction

    dsbreen. More information is provided following the links to GROCE und SPP-OGreen . Fig. 4: RV Polarstern at the calving front of 79-North Glacier. Normally, thick fast ice blocks access to the glacier [...] glacier, but in boreal summer 2016 the bay was ice-free for several weeks allowing RV Polarstern to conduct comprehensive oceanographic measurements. (Photo: Nat Wilson) Contacts Dr. Markus Janout +49(471)4831-1981