• Transit cruise from Punta Arenas to Las Palmas

      PS105 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 20 March - 11 April 2017
      This year’s return journey of RV Polarstern from Antarctica began with the departure in Punta Arenas in the evening of March 20, 2017. We left

    • Transit from Tromsø and first research operations in the Northeast Greenland area

      PS115/1 - Weekly report no. 1 | 5th August - 12th August 2018
      The cruise PS115.1 on Polarstern focuses on a geoscientific research program, which has the aim to clarify the geological development of

    • Triaxus

      +49(471)4831-2404 Hauke.Becker @ awi.de Triaxus towed behind FS Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken) Triaxus with Depressor, towed behind RV Polarstern. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured [...] operations in regions with light to moderate sea ice cover. It was used for the first time during the Polarstern PS131 expedition and allowed the collection of valuable data in the marginal ice zone north of

    • Turbulent recirculation

      PS100 – Wochenbericht Nr. 2 | 25. Juli - 31. Juli 2016
      Meanwhile R/V Polarstern has reached the northernmost location planned for the GRIFF expedition. The last week was characterized by intense station

    • Twentieth “Polarstern” expedition to Arctic is drawing to a close

      Press release

    • Two New Records at the North Pole

      destination, and finally, at 12:20 pm (CET) on Friday, 28 February, dropped anchor 970 metres from Polarstern, moored to the same floe. While the handover is in full swing on the MOSAiC floe, in Russia another

    • Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

      the northwestern Weddell Sea in the Antarctic on board the Alfred Wegener Institute's icebreaker Polarstern since 8 February 2026. In this key region for global ocean currents, the focus has been on the

    • Under Saharan Dust

      PS95.2 Weekly Report No. 1 | 9 till 15 November 2015
      After 13 days at sea Polarstern reached Las Palmas on the Canary Islands on the 10th November. The team of three geophysicists left the ship and

    • Underwater robot scheduled to surface after a year exploring the Arctic depths

      New Technologies for Arctic Research
      On Tuesday, 22 August the research icebreaker Polarstern will depart the Norwegian port of Tromsø for a unique expedition to the Arctic: the autonomous underwater

    • Underway observations

      PS106/1 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 24. - 30. May 2017
      On May 24, 2017 at 12:00 Polarstern has departed for the Arctic Expeditions in summer 2017.