• Climate Sciences

      and Antarctic, using research vessels, such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, sea ice, and ice sheets. At

    • ACLOUD/AFLUX

      aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns of different German universities

    • Expedition

      Expeditions Polarstern PS128 | EASI-1 | East Antarctic Continental Margin Start: 2022-01-06 End: 2022-02-28 Chief Scientist: R. Tiedemann Cruise report

    • Beyond iron: vitamins, zinc and cobalt

      with natural phytoplankton assemblages are planned onboard the Polarstern in the austral summers of 2016 and 2017. In addition, in situ uptake rates and measurements of both, dissolved and particulate

    • Archive Related Publications

      j.seares.2015.03.004 . Salewski, Christian R.; Löschke, Sina: RV Polarstern - glimpses of its history, Bremerhaven 2015. Salewski, C. (2017): Die stille Frühgeschichte der Biologischen Anstalt Helgoland:

    • Other expeditions, abstracts, proceedings

      been implemented in compiling the final expedition reports of "Polarstern" to be published in the "Reports on Polar and Marine Research". Apart from the bibliometric entry of the reports as "hdl" into

    • Triaxus

      Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured [...] moderate sea ice cover. It was used for the first time during the Polarstern PS131 expedition and allowed the collection of valuable data in the marginal ice zone north of Svalbard. Further below, you can [...] 49(471)4831-2404 Hauke.Becker @ awi.de Triaxus towed behind FS Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken) Triaxus with Depressor, towed behind RV Polarstern. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Graduate School POLMAR

      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 education and conferences

    • Projects

      more MOSAiC In September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern set sail from Tromsø to drift in the Arctic Ocean for a year—trapped in the ice. The goal of the MOSAiC expedition was to study

    • Arctic plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux

      flux under climate change Sampling at the ice edge with Polarstern; left rosette sampling system, right sediment trap, middle sedimenting matter in 300m depth at Gakkel Ridge. Fotos Eduard Bauerfeind