• 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

    • what we do

      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

    • Investigating unexplored ocean currents to the north of Greenland

      north of Greenland was the area of study in the last of three Arctic expeditions undertaken by the Polarstern since the end of May 2025. In the largely untraveled waters north and northeast of Greenland, a

    • 5 years Welcome back MOSAiC

      It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift.

    • Polarstern – Expedition into the Eternal Ice

    • Training Capacity Exchange

      secure the oceans as a sustainable resource. *** New training expedition Nov-Dec 2025 on board RV Polarstern *** Venue and Background The Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE) provides

    • The new Polarstern features a high-tech heart

      The centrepiece of the new construction project for the Polarstern's successor is now taking shape: by the end of August, TKMS, Wärtsilä, Steerprop and Aker Arctic had inked the contracts for the entire

    • Unique concept for observing Arctic sea ice successfully implemented

      The Polarstern recently ended a two-month expedition in the Central Arctic in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The international and interdisciplinary research team, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, focused

    • Underwater robot scheduled to surface after a year exploring the Arctic depths

      New Technologies for Arctic Research
      On Tuesday, 22 August the research icebreaker Polarstern will depart the Norwegian port of Tromsø for a unique expedition to the Arctic: the autonomous underwater

    • Iceflux

      net SUIT. Afterwards our Dutch colleague Jan von Franeker put the animals in an aquarium onboard Polarstern, identified their species and took these amazing photos. Novel Surface and Under-Ice Trawl (SUIT) [...] Oceanography Ecological Chemistry Explorations Presentation on sea ice ecosystems (Prezi) Blog: Polarstern-Expedition Expedition-Portal Cooperation Partners Cooperation Partners University Hamburg IMARES [...] This video of our Dutch colleagues from the research centre IMARES shows how SUIT is used during a Polarstern expedition . The pictures were taken in late summer 2013 on a expedition in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica