and are operated from the Neumayer - and AWIPEV Stations, as well as from the research icebreaker Polarstern . MOSAiC expedition The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate [...] (MOSAiC) was a major year-long campaign in the Central Arctic Sea ice, using the research icebreaker Polarstern . MOSAiC was a large international effort spearheaded by the Atmospheric Physics Section at AWI [...] coordination of the station. Antarctic To be filled! Text is missing Arctic Ocean (Central Arctic) FS Polarstern MOSAiC (Photo: M. Gutsche) The polar oceans in the Arctic and around Antarctica, characterized

and information form the base for new IODP/ICDP drill proposals. Formation of the Arctic Basin Polarstern for geophysics in the Arctic Ocean Research projects on the formation of the Arctic Ocean Development

, which contains information on seabed sediment composition (e.g., soft sediment, rock, etc.). Polarstern has a hull-mounted Teledyne Atlas HYDROSWEEP DS III (HSDS3) full ocean-depth MBES permanently installed

Lomonossov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean Madiba Sea Mount, south of South Africa, discovered 2013 with RV Polarstern Current-induced seabed structures at the Southern Mozambique Ridge Iceberg scours on the shelf

As the sea-ice recedes, the Arctic Ocean will see an explosion of research activities. With RV Polarstern, our powerful ice breaker and a variety of specially adapted equipment and techniques , AWIs geophysics

dition , the largest Arctic research expedition of our time, during which the research vessel “Polarstern” was frozen in the Arctic ice for a year to study the effects of climate change. Scientists from [...] 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

necessary national permits . Polarstern Expedition participants: Polarstern-Wiki EIS - Expedition Interface System EIS - General info and wiki Deadlines 360 degr. tour Map of Polarstern General arrangement plan [...] AWI that is your superior/leader of the scientific section. Not necessary for expeditions with Polarstern, Heincke, Uthörn, Mya II, Aade and Antarctic land campaigns. Download personnal questionnaire Medical [...] Medical questionnaire Not necessary for expeditions with Uthörn, Mya II or Aade. RV Polarstern, RV Heincke, Neumayer III, and Kohnen expeditions: Participants will get all information and the questionnaire

the upper Arctic basins (Figure 1). In addition to research cruises by icebreaking ships, e.g. Polarstern and air-supported spring expeditions, autonomous ice-tethered buoy systems like FRAM or MIDO have

floats deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. (copy 2) Fig. 5. Schematic of mooring array extending from Kapp Norvegia towards the Antarctic Peninsula, deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. [...] presence of Antarctic marine mammals. HAFOS was first implemented to its full extend in 2012/13 during Polarstern expedition ANT-XXIX/2, yet subsets of the system existed in various configurations since 2002, [...] driven instrumentation, need to be exchanged every second to third year during expeditions with RV Polarstern, which also serve to collect spatially highly resolved CTD sections and to deploy additional i

long-term measurements in Antarctica, ( Neumayer_III ), in the Arctic (AWIPEV ) and on the oceans ( Polarstern ) automatic weather stations (AWS) are in use. The numbers of the AWS-systems and their locations