• Crossing the equator

      PS98 Weekly report No. 3 | 25 April - 1 May 2016
      On Tuesday last week, the route of Polarstern towards its home base crossed the equator. Shortly after that we also traversed the “atmospheric equator”

    • Training in Sediment Acoustics

      2016
      On Tuesday, May 3rd, a group of 20 Masters and PhD students and 5 instructors boarded the R/V Polarstern in Las Palmas. Some of those who have already been on board from Punta Arenas for more than three

    • Research vessel Polarstern expected in Bremerhaven

      Southern Ocean
      On Wednesday, 11 May 2016, the research vessel Polarstern is expected back in its home port of Bremerhaven after a good six months of Antarctic expeditions. In the austral summer, the

    • SEOM-SynSenPFT-TN-DMS_v1.pdf

      and phytoplankton data sampling, analysis and satellite PFT analysis (German campaigns with RV Polarstern (ANT25-1: Zindler et al. 2014, Tayor et al. 2011) and with RV Sonne (SO202.2). In addition we show [...] Doc:SEOM-SynSenPFT-TN-DMS Date: 10 Mar 2015 15 on RV Atalante in February 2008 and ANTXXV-1 on RV Polarstern in Nov 2008) in the Atlantic Ocean based on publications by Zindler et al. (2012), Taylor et al

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    • The Expedition PS 99 from Bremerhaven to Tromsø

      PS99 Summary| 13 June - 16 July 2016
      The RV Polarstern expedition PS99 to the Arctic will start on 13 June 2016 in Bremerhaven and lead to study areas northwest of Bear Island, south of Spitsbergen

    • New equipment for the AWI - "Gardener"

      RV Polarstern starts the Arctic season
      Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards

    • “Groundwork”

      report, today we will provide details about the work of the biogeochemists and biologists during “Polarstern” expedition PS99.2. Their goal is to investigate organisms and processes at the deep seafloor.

    • Tracking marine litter in the Arctic from the air

      Marine Litter
      On the current Polarstern expedition, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have deployed a multicopter with a high-resolution camera to quantify marine litter floating on the sea

    • Water World

      about the work of the phyto-opticians, biogeochemists, planktologists and sedimentologist during RV Polarstern expedition PS99.2. Their goal is to investigate the organisms and processes in the water column

    • The 100th expedition

      Weekly Report No. 1 | 18 July - 24y July 2016
      In the evening of 18 July the research ice breaker Polarstern left the port of Tromsö (Norway) in cloudy and windy conditions to start its 100th expedition.