• Central Arctic

    the upper Arctic basins (Figure 1). In addition to research cruises by icebreaking ships, e.g. Polarstern and air-supported spring expeditions, autonomous ice-tethered buoy systems like FRAM or MIDO have

  • Technology and Logistics

    floats deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. (copy 2) Fig. 5. Schematic of mooring array extending from Kapp Norvegia towards the Antarctic Peninsula, deployed during Polarstern expedition PS 103. [...] presence of Antarctic marine mammals. HAFOS was first implemented to its full extend in 2012/13 during Polarstern expedition ANT-XXIX/2, yet subsets of the system existed in various configurations since 2002, [...] driven instrumentation, need to be exchanged every second to third year during expeditions with RV Polarstern, which also serve to collect spatially highly resolved CTD sections and to deploy additional i

  • Automatic Weather Stations

    long-term measurements in Antarctica, ( Neumayer_III ), in the Arctic (AWIPEV ) and on the oceans ( Polarstern ) automatic weather stations (AWS) are in use. The numbers of the AWS-systems and their locations

  • Özdemir visits shipyard for the new Polarstern

    he was informed about the current state of construction regarding the new research icebreaker Polarstern for the Alfred Wegener Institute. Shortly before Christmas 2024, the Federal Ministry of Education

  • Floats

    Floats are free drifting underwater buoys Fig. 1: The research vessel "Polarstern" in antarctic waters. The antenna of a deployed float is visible in the foreground. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Floats

  • Triaxus

    +49(471)4831-2404 Hauke.Becker @ awi.de Triaxus towed behind FS Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken) Triaxus with Depressor, towed behind RV Polarstern. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured [...] operations in regions with light to moderate sea ice cover. It was used for the first time during the Polarstern PS131 expedition and allowed the collection of valuable data in the marginal ice zone north of

  • Expedition

    Expeditions Polarstern PS128 | EASI-1 | East Antarctic Continental Margin Start: 2022-01-06 End: 2022-02-28 Chief Scientist: R. Tiedemann Cruise report PS104 | ASE-MeBo | Amundsen Sea Embayment Start:

  • PS128CruiseReport_BzPM_0764_2022.pdf

    transport back to Polarstern and spent the next day clearing the camp. The Polarstern helicopter arrived in the morning of 14 February and retrieval of persons and equipment to Polarstern was accomplished [...] Equipment für den Transport zurück zu Polarstern vorzubereiten und verbrachten den folgenden Tag mit den Aufräumarbeiten unseres Lagers. Der Helikopter von Polarstern kam am Morgen des 14. Februars an und [...] Zurückbringen der Personen und der Ausrüstung zu Polarstern konnte ohne Verspätungen ausgeführt werden. 12 PS128 Abb. 1.1: Fahrtroute und Stationen der Polarstern während der Expedition PS128 von Kapstadt, entlang

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  • Projects

    biogeochemical cycles in… Find out more MOSAiC In September 2019, the German research icebreaker Polarstern set sail from Tromsø to drift in the Arctic Ocean for a year—trapped in the ice. The goal of the

  • GROCE

    x 25 km, ice thickness: 100 to 600 m). In 2016, we reached the glacier’s calving front with R/V Polarstern —the first research vessel ever to do so—and discovered an astonishingly rapid inflow of warm Atlantic