research infrastructure designed for polar research. This includes the icebreaking research vessel Polarstern , the versatile mid-sized research vessel Heincke , the Neumayer Station III in Antarctica, specialized

the German research fleet, German shipbuilding, and international polar research alike: the new Polarstern will be constructed in Wismar by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems. company received the official contract

Polarstern Core Repository The section Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores

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

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

Area PI IceBird Winter Mar-Apr, 2025 GS, LiS, CAO, FS Christian Haas IceBird Summer (parallel to Polarstern CONTRAST expedition) Jul-Aug, 2025 LiS, CAO, FS Gerit Birnbaum IceBird Winter Mar-Apr, 2026 GS

the RV Polarstern? To learn more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the AWI website for participants of expeditions and the PolarsternWiki: [...] more about RV Polarstern, our Code of Conduct and the mandatory medical examinations, please refer to the section “Where do I find further information on AWI expeditions and the RV Polarstern?" Do I have [...] t-us/logistics/information-for-expedition-participants.html spaces.awi.de/display/EFPW/Polarstern+-+Wiki Questions and Answers We hope that our Q and A section is helpful, if you still have questions

Seafloor Tools for Integrative Management of Marine Protected Areas Seafloor of the Weddell Sea. RV Polarstern expedition PS118 (2019). (Photo: Autun Purser (AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) BEnToolsMaPs:

Head, Senior Scientist Koch, Florian Scientist, System Manager Laboratories New Building Project Polarstern II Köck, Matthias Senior Scientist Kohlbach, Doreen Head of Young Investigator Group DOUBLE TROUBLE

field expedition to the Central Arctic ever. Key element is the drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern frozen into the pack ice over an entire year. Over all, more than 300 scientists from 17 countries [...] to analyzing and exploiting the data over the coming years to decades. Beyond an ice camp around Polarstern, a distributed network of observations, airborne and satellite observations contribute to the field