Expedition
On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), entered its homeport in Bremerhaven [...] personnel in Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen) and Tromsø (Norway). In the course of these five months, Polarstern covered over 16,000 nautical miles (more than 30,000 kilometres).
Climate change is proceeding [...] the Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland, and to the central Arctic. On 7 September 2015 Polarstern reached the North Pole, which the ship had first visited together with the Swedish icebreaker Oden

decision to commission a successor ship to the Polarstern was both sound and necessary.”

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The German research icebreaker Polarstern will end its current expedition to the Antarctic earlier than planned. Due to hydraulic problems in the port engine, the ship will return to [...] break off the current Antarctic mission,” relates Dr Rainer Knust, Scientific Coordinator of RV Polarstern at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). A planned

Stanley and Bremerhaven we take sub-surface water samples via an underway water intake system of the POLARSTERN in order to address the abundance, distribution, and composition of microplastics. Two sampling

strapped down in a net and we set off towards the POLARSTERN.

Twenty-five nations were now added to the compliment of countries already on POLARSTERN. In addition, to the 23 Scholars and 13 lecturers, [...] PS120 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 2 - 9 June 2019
The PS120 Transit on RV „Polarstern“between Port Stanley and Bremerhaven is a research- and training expedition. Twenty-three young scholars, who were chosen [...] taking part in the SoNoAT 2019 „Changing Oceans Changing Future“ programme. This is set upon RV „Polarstern“ as a collaboration of POGO (Partnership for Observations in the Global Oceans), NIPPON FOUNDATION

five years
On the weekend of 22 and 23 April, Germany’s largest research vessel, the icebreaker Polarstern, will open her doors to the public as part of the Science Year 2016*17 – Seas and Oceans. As they [...] interactive games for children, round out the programme.
The chance to stand on the bridge of the Polarstern, where the captain safely guides her through the ice – a veritable dream for many nautical and [...] and Rotersand and the event venue in Brückenstraße 25 (Lloyd Werft shipyards).

Please note: The Polarstern is not barrier-free. Accordingly, persons with walking disabilities unfortunately cannot tour the

month-long expedition from the Falkland Islands to Bremerhaven on board the research icebreaker Polarstern as part of a summer school. On the ‘South-North Atlantic Training Transect’ they will gain unique [...] school’, which is the third of its kind: in 2015 and 2016, similar training was offered during Polarstern’s voyage south. The expedition began on 2 June 2019 in Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) and is scheduled [...] group met in late May in Punta Arenas (Chile) for a two-day preparatory workshop. On board the Polarstern the young researchers, divided into groups of five, will spend several days each working on various

column,” reports Dr Rainer Knust, the Scientific Coordinator of the Polarstern at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

After Cape Town, the Polarstern will set course for the Antarctic. After resupplying the Neumayer [...] Floating Summer School
On 29 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern will leave its homeport in Bremerhaven for Cape Town, South Africa, where it is expected to arrive on 1 December. She’ll [...] interdisciplinary discussions among the young researchers. Besides the daily presentations, the Polarstern herself offers the perfect setting. We’ll be spending several weeks together on board, which will

superlatives: MOSAiC poses a big challenge to all international scientists involved: The drift of Polarstern will be determined by nature and can only be estimated so far in advance. To allow everyone interested [...] be saved as an application right within your browser itself.

Online, users can not only follow Polarstern‘s actual whereabouts, but also view the predicted drift route, as well as weather details of their

MOSAiC Expedition
After a month’s absence, on 17 June the German research icebreaker Polarstern rendezvoused with the MOSAiC floe at 82.2 ° North and 8.4 ° East, after having left it on 19 May 2020 [...] returned to Bremerhaven on board the research vessels Sonne and Maria S. Merian.
The location of Polarstern’s destination was never in doubt: autonomous monitoring stations transmit positioning data from [...] however, is the fact that the stations continued to gather a wealth of important data during Polarstern’s absence, e.g. on energy balances – energy transfers between the atmosphere, ice and ocean – and

Merian. As a result of the pandemic-related measures, both ships have just returned to Germany. Polarstern will meet the two vessels in calm waters off Svalbard, in order to carry out a complete personnel [...] transfer (ca. 100 people), and an exchange of cargo and provisions. Once the process is complete, Polarstern and her new team will return to the ice and continue their expedition in the Arctic Ocean.

Expedition [...] is still 12 October 2020.

Prof Torsten Kanzow from the AWI, the current chief scientist on board Polarstern, had the following to report: “Many of our people have families, and are of course doing everything