German research vessel Polarstern in New Zealand for the first time

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    Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea

    Bremerhaven and Kiel and their international partners discovered this unique hotspot of life during a POLARSTERN expedition and now report their findings in the journal Nature Communications . They stress the

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    Training program: International guest scientists Ship-based training with e.g. RV Heincke or RV Polarstern Transferable skills courses Career workshops and information events Financial support for: Continuing

    Hausgarten Expedition ends

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    On Sunday afternoon, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from its roughly one month-long Arctic expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten [...] 20 years of long-term research on the effects of global climate change on the Arctic ecosystem. Polarstern will spend the coming months in the shipyard for extensive maintenance work.

    Highlight of the Polarstern expedition: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle of the Alfred Wegener Institute dives under the Arctic ice for the first time

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    AtkaXpress blog Find out more News 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

    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

    How do krill survive the Antarctic winter? Two-months dive expedition with RV Polarstern ends in Cape Town

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    How is climate change affecting fauna in the Arctic?

    biogeochemists will embark on a joint expedition headed for Svalbard. On board the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) all of

    How is the Arctic Ocean changing? – Research vessel Polarstern launches expedition to Arctic Ocean

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