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

Press release

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

free-falling system (bottom-lander) and an autonomous benthic crawler system deployed during RV POLARSTERN expeditions PS107 and PS108, respectively, in summer 2017. Another bottom-lander equipped with [...] and 2500 m, respectively, off Svalbard. The recovery of the two instruments is planned for the RV POLARSTERN cruise PS121 in summer 2019. Towards the end of the week we finally succeeded to recover our benthic