Staff Units

4831-1012 e-mail Project Polarstern II In May 2020 the AWI was appointed to conduct a new process for the acquisition of a new ice-breaking research and supply vessel Polarstern II by the board of trustees [...] of primary importance for AWI are bundled in the staff unit Project Polarstern II. Contact: Detlef Wilde Stabsstelle Projekt Polarstern II Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Polarstern longterm cruise planning

Transits and Campaigns - Antarctic Contact Scientific Coordinator RV Polarstern Dr. Ingo Schewe E-Mail 0471 / 4831-1737 Polarstern longterm plan Transits and Expeditions - Antarctic 2023/2024 PS140; Project: [...] POLARSTERN long-term expedition planning This page provides an overview of all the main-user applications considered in the expedition planning so far. Potential secondary-user applicants please contact

CONTRASTS

CONTRASTS (PS149) Contrasts of sea ice regimes in the Arctic Ocean during melt season The Polarstern expedition CONTRASTS (2 July to 1 September 2025, also named PS149, ArcWatch-3) investigates the causes [...] The aircraft campaign IceBird summer 2025 complements with regional surveys. Sea ice station with Polarstern (example from MOSAiC 2020). The vessel is moored to the ice floe. Measurements are performed and [...] autonomous devices. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) On-route measurements and regional surveys With Polarstern, the helicopters and also the aircrafts on the IceBird summer expedition (from Station Nord), we

How climate change is altering the Arctic Ocean

On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a

Publications

Strass, V., Krägefsky, S. (2002): Acoustic distribution of Antarctic Krill during SO-GLOBEC 2001 - POLARSTERN Expedition. ASLO Symposium Hawaii , USA Science communication Press Film about the BEA project

Glaciology

multi-disciplinary teams. The infrastructure we are using are AWI’s airborne platforms Polar 5/6 and Polarstern, the permanent and summer stations Neumayer III and Kohnen, ice and clean room laboratories, ice

Engergy Budgets

ocean (transmittance). We perform various radiation measurements during our field campaigns using Polarstern, aircrafts, and stationary measurements. Our focus are observations that aim for better descriptions

Polarstern back in home port

Polarstern returned to her home port of Bremerhaven at high tide this morning. After a good 20 weeks in the Antarctic season, the research vessel moored at the pier in the overseas harbour at 5:00 am.

Physical Oceanography

the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans for a changing climate and the polar ecosystems. Polarstern in der Arktis / Polarstern in the Arctic Contact Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow +49(471)4831-2913 Torsten.Kanzow @

CTD Instrument and Water Sampler

CTD and Water Sampler A water sampler with a CTD probe is being deployed from the research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The CTD is an oceanographic instrument