• Climate Sciences

    measurement systems across the Arctic and Antarctic, using research vessels, such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere

  • Beyond iron: vitamins, zinc and cobalt

    shipboard manipulation experiments 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

  • Expedition

    Expeditions Polarstern PS128 | EASI-1 | East Antarctic Continental Margin Start: 2022-01-06 End: 2022-02-28 Chief Scientist: R. Tiedemann Cruise report PS104 | ASE-MeBo | Amundsen Sea Embayment Start:

  • 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

  • Archive Related Publications

    of Sea Research. doi: 10.1016/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

  • Other expeditions, abstracts, proceedings

    stringent structuring concept has 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

  • Projects

    biogeochemical cycles in… Find out 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

  • Arctic plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux

    plankton ecology and related sedimentary 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

  • 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

  • Triaxus

    +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) [...] 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 [...] operations in regions with light to 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