• Research program

    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

  • 50 years Hustedt Collection

    collections. And needless to say, AWI researchers also bring us new samples every year from their “Polarstern” expeditions,” explains Friedel Hinz. Diatoms from Oamaru, New Zealand (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

  • Guide to Holdings

    2) and some archivalia of the Schacht & Westerich Company with regard to the construction of RV Polarstern (AE 3). Moreover, the AWI's spin off company "Training and Education Centre Hydography at AWI"

  • hausgarten_up_to2015.pdf

    Klages, M. (2003): Arktisexpedition ARK XIX/3 mit FS "Polarstern" und dem ROV "Victor 6000" , 43. Kuratoriumssitzung des AWI, 23. Mai 2003, FS "Polarstern". . 253. Klages, M. (2003): High technology in modern [...] German research icebreaker RV "POLARSTERN" , [Miscellaneous] 297. Soltwedel, T. , Klages, M. and Nokin, M. (2000): French ROV Victor 6000 first deployment from Polarstern , Sea technology, 41 (4), pp. 51-53 [...] Institut, Universität Hamburg.04.08. . 170. Hasemann, C. (2008): Eiskalte Entdeckungen Mit FS "Polarstern" dem Leben in der Arktischen Tiefsee auf der Spur , Vortragsreihe Förderverein DT Sögeln, 28.02

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  • Cooperations

    Approximately one quarter of all AWI expedition participants in research cruises aboard the RV Polarstern are international visiting scientists. AWI primary partner institutions Institution Country British

  • Cruise_Report_2005_ATA.pdf

    active bubble discharge was found during the “Polarstern” expedition ARK-XXI/1b in August/September 2005 with EK60 recordings performed by R/V “Polarstern” (Damm pers. comm.). According to the surface [...] samples from different depth strata close to the seafloor. Some days before us the German icebreaker “Polarstern” was at our actual location and deployed a system which is called free-falling lander. The entire [...] first station west of Svalbard (Spitzbergen). At a water depth of 5400 m the German icebreaker “Polarstern” deployed another free-falling lander about four weeks ago. Approximately 1 mile ahead of this

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  • Nov-17-Highlight.pdf

    boden-basierte Messungen in Ny-Alesund auf Spitzbergen, als auch Messungen mit dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern. Die Expedition wurde von der Malerin und Illustratorin Kerstin Heymach begleitet. In Pastellz

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  • Nov-17-Highlight.pdf

    boden-basierte Messungen in Ny-Alesund auf Spitzbergen, als auch Messungen mit dem Forschungsschiff Polarstern. Die Expedition wurde von der Malerin und Illustratorin Kerstin Heymach begleitet. In Pastellz

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  • Factsheet_Arktis_english.pdf

    to eat. The ice alga Melosira arctica has proven to be an extremely good light harvester. On a Polarstern One of the many melt ponds that form on the sea ice of the Arctic in summer shimmers turquoise-blue [...] surface to a depth of 4,000 metres – and had done so within a period of barely two months. On future Polarstern expeditions AWI researchers will examine what long-term impacts the decline in sea The Arctic [...] involves a regular exchange regarding new findings and research methods, but also jointly planned Polarstern expeditions to the central Arctic Ocean. To understand how climate change is altering the Arctic

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  • 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