The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned on 9 December 1982, the Polarstern has since logged more [...] latest technologies available. A successor to the Polarstern is also planned. What’s on the odometer? By June 2025, the research icebreaker Polarstern had logged 1,963,207 nautical miles. One nautical [...] Today she’s one of the world’s most advanced and versatile polar research ships in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March

On Wednesday, 2 July 2025, the Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, embarking on an expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next two months, an international research team will analyse the feedback [...] parallel airborne campaign will complement the measurements and, at the outset of the expedition, the Polarstern will support the first ice testing of the new French Tara Polar Station research platform.

Events Statements Press release Summary of the CONTRASTS expedition The comprehensive inventory of Polarstern expedition revealed major differences between the various sea ice regimes and a low sea ice co [...] discussion about the projects Beyond EPICA, Antarctica InSync, and the new construction of the Polarstern. 2nd Antarctica InSync International Science Webinar 21. August 2025 The international Antarctic

PS108 2017 Polarstern PS107 2016 Polarstern PS99.2 2015 Polarstern PS93.2 2014 Polarstern PS85 2013 Maria S. Merian MSM29 2012 Polarstern ARK-XXVII/2 2011 Polarstern ARK-XXVI/2 2010 Polarstern ARK-XXV/2 [...] HAUSGARTEN: 31 2025 Polarstern PS148 2024 Polarstern PS143 2023 Polarstern PS136 2022 Maria S. Merian MSM108 2021 Polarstern PS126 2019 Polarstern PS121 2018 Maria S. Merian MSM77 2018 Polarstern PS114 2017 Polarstern [...] 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/3c 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/1 2002 Polarstern ARK-XVIII/1 2001 Polarstern ARK-XVII/2 2001 L'Atalante Arctic Ocean 2001 2000 Polarstern ARK-XVI/2 1999 Polarstern ARK-XV/1

ice-free conditions to continue the seafloor photographic and acoustic mapping started during RV POLARSTERN expedition PS121 and continued during the expeditions MSM95 and PS126. During MSM108, a total of [...] Results from these tests were promising, so that we now plan to deploy the arcFOCE system during RV POLARSTERN expedition PS136 in 2023 for an entire year at approx. 1500 m water depth on the Vestnesa Ridge

Trinity College Dublin, will conduct its fifth training expedition on board its icebreaker RV Polarstern, Germany's largest research vessel. We are offering 20 training scholarships and, for the first [...] data series on the North-South (NoSoAT) and South-North (SoNoAT) transits of the icebreaker RV Polarstern. All 25 successful scholars will be divided into five groups. These groups of five will rotate

Naggar S, Jokat W, Werner B (2008). Broad-band calibration of marine seismic sources used by R/V Polarstern for academic research in polar regions. Geophysical Journal International, 174(2):505–524. DOI: [...] April 2021: Interview ZDF: Klimawandel in der Antarktis ( www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/polarstern-expedition-antarktis-100.html ) March 2021: Interview "Ozeanische Klangwelten" FAZ Sonntagszeitung

observatory including the PALAOA listening station and acted as chief scientists for several RV Polarstern expeditions. www.researchgate.net/profile/Olaf_Boebel Scientists Dr. Elena Schall I am

Antarctica look after themselves? In a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern

November 2023, a ten-week geochemical expedition (EASI-2 / PS140) on board the research vessel Polarstern will set off from Cape Town to East Antarctica. This is one of three coordinated Antarctic cruises [...] Protactinium, Radium and Thorium in the Arctic Ocean The Transarc expeditions together with earlier Polarstern campaigns have yielded a unique time series of the chemical and physical properties of the Central