or on 20 August 2024 by Sabine Horn. Dunkeles Wattenmeer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Dario Fiorentino) AWI experts Christian Buschbaum Marine ecologist Dr Christian Buschbaum, expert on coastal

archivist at the archives for German polar research based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has compiled this and other milestones of the over 30-year history of Polarstern. We document extracts from the [...] marks (over 96 million euros). Contruction of Polarstern (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Construction of Polarstern II Data June 1979 – The invitation to tender for construction of the polar research [...] in the pack ice. Polarstern in the waters off Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Operations 1982-1989 9 December 1982 – RV Polarstern is taken over by Federal Research Minister Heinz Riesenhuber

season 1994/1995. He was the first German artist to travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories and living quarters of [...] , this time to launch his art project “Library in the Ice”. The Alfred Wegener Institute supplied the insulated cargo container that would house the library and transported it to the Antarctic. Thanks

processes and their bio-physical coupling. Remote Sensing (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Modelling To predict upcoming changes in global ocean circulation, ocean productivity, and the consequences for [...] Modelling with data from the Fram-Strait and the Arctic (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

App Unterwasserknoten im observierenden System Cosyna (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

the globe. Aurora Borealis at the Neumayer Station III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long is your way to work? 1,5 kilometers. The entrance to the observatory Into the ice on a 13 metres long

within the ice sheets of the Antarctic and Greenland. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Particularly challenging: Finding the right gloves for working at 20 degrees below zero. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut [...] Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Razor-sharp saws are used to precisely cut the ice cores. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A glimpse inside: In [...] within. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Like abstract art... Thin slices of ice are examined using different light sources in order to find out how the

is placed in the experimental chamber for MR scanning. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The NMR lab: A shared resource At their laboratory for NMR ( N uclear M agnetic R esonance), the AWI experts employ [...] samples for metabolomic studies based on NMR spectroscopy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Unlocking the secrets of molecular structures In the context of other research, the experts’ goal is to identify [...] is solely dedicated to marine research.” Data evaluation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Dr Christian Bock (Laboratory Manager) Dr Jan Tebben Info The NMR lab is equipped with a 9.4 Tesla NMR

polar climate archives Thanks to a new high-tech tool, the Alfred Wegener Institute can finally unlock many polar climate archives for the first time. At its C-14 dating laboratory, AWI researchers [...] requires high-precision analytical work – a challenge that the Alfred Wegener Institute’s C-14 lab has now overcome. To do so, the scientists use a method called radiocarbon dating, also known as the

PERPLEX Software for expedition planning Perplex7 GUI. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) PERPLEX is a software program that can be used to plan and efficiently execute expeditions with research vessels. The software was developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute and used during many cruises of the RV Polarstern. PERPLEX allows scientists and chief scientist as well as [...] trip will automatically open Perplex 7 Route viewer.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The 'Maps' tab displays the travel route, where e.g. new waypoints can be interactively added with the mouse.