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

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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,

Same procedure as every year: „Gardening“ in the deep Arctic Ocean

students coming from 10 nations embarked in sunny Tromsø to participate in the second leg of RV “Polarstern” expedition PS93.

Programmed Multicopter Flies Through the Arctic Autonomously

reliable positioning data? Engineers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker Polarstern specially programmed a multicopter, allowing it to navigate despite the deviations produced by

The floating university – graduate school uses Polarstern cruise to Antarctic for training

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Window into the past: researchers on board Polarstern find ancient sediments on the seafloor of the Arctic

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Milestone on the way to construction of new vessel as successor to research icebreaker Polarstern: Reederei F. Laeisz as partner

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Research vessel Polarstern returns home after one and a half years in the Antarctic

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The Polarstern expedition PS92

PS92 Summary | 19 May - 28 June 2015
On May 19, 2015, the German research icebreaker RV Polarstern will set sail for a six week expedition to the Central Arctic Ocean initiated by “ART”. ART, in this

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