• Under Saharan Dust

      PS95.2 Weekly Report No. 1 | 9 till 15 November 2015
      After 13 days at sea Polarstern reached Las Palmas on the Canary Islands on the 10th November. The team of three geophysicists left the ship and

    • Label-PS-Stückgut.pdf

      used for non-containerized general cargo at Polarstern.) AWI Operations & Research Platforms, POLARSTERN Expeditions, General Cargo Label Version 2016-02 Polarstern: Stückgut (Non-containerized general cargo)

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    • RV Polarstern arrives in Cape Town

      Education and Training
      The German research vessel Polarstern will arrive tomorrow in Cape Town after a five week voyage. During this training cruise from Bremerhaven to South Africa 32 international

    • Sea water below, wind above and ice in between: “Polarstern” is thriving in the Southern Ocean waters between Bouvet Island and the Neumayer III station.

      PS96 Weekly Report No. 2 | 14 till 20 December 2015
      Just in time when the first weekly letter started its long distance, homeward bound journey - a “space odyssey” via satellite - the first tiny ic

    • Visit at Neumayer station and research on public holidays

      Report No. 3 | 21 till 31 December 2015
      After three days of ice breaking near Neumayer station “Polarstern” finally arrives at the ice shelf front. Once again the ship’s nautical officers did an excellent

    • Sub-Antarctic Islands

      PS97 Weekly Report No. 4 | 7 - 13 March 2016
      The fourth week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 was entirely devoted to work on and surrounding the Sub-Antarctic Islands. For many of us this week will

    • The Drake Passage – Second Traverse

      PS97 Weekly Report No. 5 | 14. - 20. March 2016
      During the fifth week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 we left the Antarctic Peninsula area close to Elephant Island to start our second Drake Passage

    • Towards the Strait of Magellan

      Weekly Report No. 7 | 30 March - 6 April 2016
      For both crew and scientists the last week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 required everyone to dig deep. A varied geological, geophysical and oceanographic

    • Stormy Departures

      February 2016
      At midnight between the 19-20th of February we finally had the get-go for the FS Polarstern PS97 Expedition. It was a long way to this very point. An advance group had arrived in Punta Arenas [...] containers from the previous Antarctic Expedition PS96 with our materials. Unfortunately the FS Polarstern could not access the Mardones container loading pier in Punta Arenas, as it was still being occupied

    • Beginning the return voyage

      report No. 1 | 10 - 17 April 2016
      The last cruise section of this year’s Antarctic season for Polarstern started on 10 April 2016 in Punta Arenas and will end on 12 May in Bremerhaven. Until Las Palmas