• Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

    instruments that are towed 12 to 20 meters above the ice surface using helicopters from land or from RV Polarstern. Since 2009, AEM measurements are also conducted with the research aircraft Polar 5 operating from

  • Air: Meteorology

    AWIPEV: Temperature AWIPEV: Radiation Data AWIPEV: Ozone data Meteorological observations on-board RV Polarstern Without reliable weather data polar expeditions and the related fieldwork become a dangerous u [...] undertaking. For this reason there are always two meteorologists working on-board Polarstern. They constantly update the captain and officers, the helicopter crew and the chief scientist about the latest [...] essential for forecasting the weather worldwide. Weather balloon (Photo: Esther Horvath) Links Polarstern's Weather Data

  • Purchasing

    Lizenzen-Lieferung von VMware Lizenzen Tender Polarstern II Construction and ready-to-operate delivery of the icebreaking polar research and supply vessel POLARSTERN II PLEASE NOTE: Series of scams - bogus orders

  • Freight handling

    Roadtransport (not expeditions) Label for outer packing: Polarstern; departure Bremerhaven (Word) Polarstern; any foreign port (Word) Polarstern; Stückgut/General Cargo ANT-Land; freight to/from Antarctica [...] handling A nna-Lena Bohlen dangerous goods Gisela S trelow disposals Polarstern expeditions Please also read the information in the Polarstern-Wiki Contact Freight handling: transport @ awi.de Anna-Lena Bohlen [...] Neumayer III, Carlini Station/ Dallmann Laboratory Nina Machner Polarstern incl. dangerous goods and Neumayer/Kohnen if transported on board Polarstern / Agency services, harbour and shipyard times Marcus Meierdierks

  • Journey through space and time

    On Wednesday, 2 July 2025, the Polarstern will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, embarking on an expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next two months, an international research team will analyse the feedback [...] parallel airborne campaign will complement the measurements and, at the outset of the expedition, the Polarstern will support the first ice testing of the new French Tara Polar Station research platform.

  • NoSoAT

    Trinity College Dublin, will conduct its fifth training expedition on board its icebreaker RV Polarstern, Germany's largest research vessel. We are offering 20 training scholarships and, for the first [...] data series on the North-South (NoSoAT) and South-North (SoNoAT) transits of the icebreaker RV Polarstern. All 25 successful scholars will be divided into five groups. These groups of five will rotate

  • Shopping only once a year

    Antarctica look after themselves? In a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern

  • Projects

    November 2023, a ten-week geochemical expedition (EASI-2 / PS140) on board the research vessel Polarstern will set off from Cape Town to East Antarctica. This is one of three coordinated Antarctic cruises [...] Protactinium, Radium and Thorium in the Arctic Ocean The Transarc expeditions together with earlier Polarstern campaigns have yielded a unique time series of the chemical and physical properties of the Central

  • CONTRASTS

    CONTRASTS (PS149) Contrasts of sea ice regimes in the Arctic Ocean during melt season The Polarstern expedition CONTRASTS (2 July to 1 September 2025, also named PS149, ArcWatch-3) investigates the causes [...] The aircraft campaign IceBird summer 2025 complements with regional surveys. Sea ice station with Polarstern (example from MOSAiC 2020). The vessel is moored to the ice floe. Measurements are performed and [...] autonomous devices. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) On-route measurements and regional surveys With Polarstern, the helicopters and also the aircrafts on the IceBird summer expedition (from Station Nord), we

  • How climate change is altering the Arctic Ocean

    On 29 May 2025, the Polarstern research vessel set sail from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a