• Climate Research in the Southern Ocean

    Polarstern Expedition
    The Alfred Wegener Institute has risen to the challenge of undertaking an expedition to the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic under pandemic conditions. Consequently, the participants [...] participants in this year’s first Polarstern expedition will be able to resume their long-term measurements in the Southern Ocean, gathering data that forms the basis for our understanding of polar processes and

  • 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

  • Climate change and life in the Southern Ocean - Research vessel Polarstern sets out for Antarctic research season

    Press release

  • Comprehensive assessment of the changing Central Arctic Ocean

    are the impressions and outcomes that an international research team is now bringing back from a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s

  • Cooperations

    Approximately one quarter of all AWI expedition participants in research cruises aboard the RV Polarstern are international visiting scientists. AWI primary partner institutions Institution Country British

  • Core Repository

    Polarstern Core Repository The section Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores

  • Crossing the Equator

    28.12.2020 - 03.01.2021
    After we had sent the 3rd CoV-2 swab from Las Palmas to Bremerhaven, Polarstern continues its journey southwards. The weather is increasingly summerly. Near the Canary Islands

  • Crossing the equator

    PS98 Weekly report No. 3 | 25 April - 1 May 2016
    On Tuesday last week, the route of Polarstern towards its home base crossed the equator. Shortly after that we also traversed the “atmospheric equator”

  • Cruise_Report_2001_ATA.pdf

    aurait ete perdu. XVII of RV "Polarstern" in 1999. Ber. Polarforsch. 339: 28 pp. Soltwedel, T., Klages, M., Nokin, M. (2000). French ROV VICTOR 6000 first deployment from Polarstern. Sea Technology 4114: 51-53 [...] using the French Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) 'VICTOR 6000" onboard the German icebreaker RV "Polarstern". Long-term experiments had been started during that campaign and it was one intention of the cruise [...] premiere exploration a l'aide du ROV francais "VICTOR 6000" embarque sur le NI0 brise-glace allemand "Polarstern". Des experiences a long terme avaient ete mises en place a cette occasion et un des objectifs

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  • Cruise_Report_2005_ATA.pdf

    active bubble discharge was found during the “Polarstern” expedition ARK-XXI/1b in August/September 2005 with EK60 recordings performed by R/V “Polarstern” (Damm pers. comm.). According to the surface [...] samples from different depth strata close to the seafloor. Some days before us the German icebreaker “Polarstern” was at our actual location and deployed a system which is called free-falling lander. The entire [...] first station west of Svalbard (Spitzbergen). At a water depth of 5400 m the German icebreaker “Polarstern” deployed another free-falling lander about four weeks ago. Approximately 1 mile ahead of this

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