Eisbrecher Polarstern, Flaggschiff des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts für Polar- und Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft deutscher Forschungszentren. Es  hat von Bord der Polarstern bereits [...] Press release
JAGO und POLARSTERN, ein unschlagbares Team auf Korallenexpedition im NordmeerBremerhaven/Kiel 18. Juni 2007. Deutschlands kleinstes Forschungsschiff, das bemannte Tauchboot JAGO des [...] bereits 16 Tauchgänge in die Korallenriffe unternommen. Polarstern hat sich am 29. Mai 2007 zu ihrer ersten Arktisexpedition im Rahmen des jetzt angelaufenen vierten Internationalen Polarjahres aus Bremerhaven

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Bremerhaven, June 18th. The German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, will begin its 24th [...] mammals, and also geoscientific questions regarding sediment structure and tectonics of the Arctic. Polarstern is expected back in Bremerhaven September 25th.

The first journey stage will lead the researchers [...] continental shelf of the south-western Barent Sea and has regularly been explored in the past by Polarstern expeditions. A long-term observatory to continually measure geological, physical, chemical and

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Polarstern beendet 25. Antarktissaison

Expedition im Zeichen nationaler und internationaler Kooperationen

Am 24. Mai 2009 wird das Forschungsschiff Polarstern mit dem morgendlichen [...] dann Richtung Antarktis. Das Schiff nahm hier seine Versorgungsfunktion wahr: Mitte Dezember legte Polarstern an der Schelfeiskante der Atka-Bucht an und lieferte Bau- und Verbrauchsmaterial sowie Personal [...] sich änderte Umweltbedingungen physiologisch und genetisch zu untersuchen.

Am 11. April verließ Polarstern unter der Fahrtleitung von Dr. Walter Zenk vom Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (Ifm-Geomar)

jointly with the 43 crew members since the Polarstern left the port of Tromsø (Norway) on 5 August. The first ice floes appeared on 8 August. Since 9 August the Polarstern has been sailing through dense pack [...] 2011. You can’t get any “higher”: on 22 August 2011 at exactly 9.42 a.m. the research icebreaker Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association reaches [...] of altered current conditions.

All 55 scientists and technicians from six countries on board the Polarstern have a common goal: studying the changes in the Arctic. This is also reflected in the name of the

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Bremerhaven, 10 June 2011. On coming Wednesday, 15 June, the research vessel Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will [...] in August, physical, biological and chemical changes in the central Arctic will be recorded. RV Polarstern is expected back in Bremerhaven on 7 October.

In the Fram Strait between Spitsbergen and Greenland [...] depths of around 400 metres west of Svalbard.

As of the beginning of August, the research vessel Polarstern will then set course for the Arctic Ocean. The focus will be on physical, biological and chemical

the Polarstern will leave Bremerhaven again heading for the Arctic on 15 June.

You will find more exciting information on the now completed Antarctic expedition of the research vessel Polarstern in the [...] Press release
Bremerhaven, 19 May 2011. The research vessel Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will arrive back at its homeport of [...] great depths of the Weddell Sea continues to rise,” states Fahrbach, who was in Antarctica on the Polarstern from the end of November to the beginning of February.

Data from the moorings as well as measurements

rarely visited it. The research icebreaker Polarstern is one of only a few worldwide, which is able to operate in this region even during winter. This is why Polarstern enables searching for clues to one of [...] changes in the timing and extent of sea ice formation as parts of Antarctica warm.

Making use of Polarstern’s ability to break into the winter ice pack, the scientists set up dive camps on two different floes [...] to take such complexities into account.

After four and a half months in the wintery Antarctic, Polarstern is going to stay in the shipyard in Cape Town for routine maintenance and repair work. The next

method is applicable on board the research vessel 'Polarstern' in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica. The primary purpose of the 'Polarstern' expedition is to study the relationship between winter [...] Research based in Bremerhaven – are currently on their way to Antarctica on board the research vessel 'Polarstern' to test the practicality of this technique.

The decline of arctic sea ice during the summer period [...] " says Thomas Krumpen, a sea ice physicist at AWI. In addition, he and his team on board 'Polarstern' use a helicopter-based device named 'EM-Bird' that AWI developed specifically to measure the ice

holiday, but rather the start of a special journey: on Saturday, 8 June 2013 the research vessel Polarstern will be embarking on an expedition to the Antarctic winter. 49 researchers from institutes in twelve [...] until the expedition comes to an end on 12 August in Punta Arenas, Chile.

The research ice-breaker Polarstern is one of the few ships in the world that is able to navigate the Antarctic Ocean in the winter [...] second half of the expedition then moves on to the incipient spring: the planned route takes the Polarstern from the Antarctic coast in a north-westerly direction, away from the polar night and into the

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