• Infrastructure, Services, and Support

    administration. These include: a global network: from building to building, from site to site, from Polarstern to Neumayer III Station, AWI-wide identity management and the provision of staff and guests with

  • Editorial

    from the subtropics and Arctic cold fronts? Antarctic expeditions on board the research icebreaker Polarstern take us to the stormy seas of the “Furious Fifties” and “Screaming Sixties” and to the majestic

  • Past Climate Change

    through discrete sampling and continuous monitoring. It combines isotopic measurements on board RV Polarstern taken during the MOSAiC expedition with simultaneously performed measurements from several land-based [...] different Arctic hydrological compartments (i.e. sea water, sea ice, snow, water vapor) surrounding RV Polarstern will be targeted to decipher major exchange processes between atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice. Contact:

  • Publications

    sueddeutsche.de/wissen/eis-arktis-framstrasse-1.5105845 Bracher et al. FMARS (2020) on Atlantic Polarstern expedition phytoplankton group data as highlight within "New Publications" section at IOCCG May

  • Graduate School POLMAR

    Training program: International guest scientists Ship-based training with e.g. RV Heincke or RV Polarstern Transferable skills courses Career workshops and information events Financial support for: Continuing

  • Marcel Nicolaus

    Social Media Channels Instagram LinkedIn Publications ORCID Photo Download Marcel Nicolaus vor der Polarstern jpg | 11 MB jpg | 17 MB Sometimes the ship leaves the ice floe for, jpg | 13 MB jpg | 882 KB Marcel

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns

  • Ocean-Ice Shelf Interaction

    dsbreen. More information is provided following the links to GROCE und SPP-OGreen . Fig. 4: RV Polarstern at the calving front of 79-North Glacier. Normally, thick fast ice blocks access to the glacier [...] glacier, but in boreal summer 2016 the bay was ice-free for several weeks allowing RV Polarstern to conduct comprehensive oceanographic measurements. (Photo: Nat Wilson) Contacts Dr. Markus Janout +49(471)4831-1981

  • PERPLEX

    The software was developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute and used during many cruises of the RV Polarstern. PERPLEX allows scientists and chief scientist as well as logisticians and nautical personnel to

  • Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

    instruments that are towed 12 to 20 meters above the ice surface using helicopters from land or from RV Polarstern. Since 2009, AEM measurements are also conducted with the research aircraft Polar 5 operating from