Polarstern returned to her home port of Bremerhaven at high tide this morning. After a good 20 weeks in the Antarctic season, the research

Antarctic Oceans for a changing climate and the polar ecosystems. Polarstern in der Arktis / Polarstern in the Arctic Contact Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow +49(471)4831-2913 Torsten.Kanzow @ awi.de Assistant:

with a CTD probe is being deployed from the research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The CTD is an oceanographic instrument used to determine electrical

of the Word Meteorological Organization WMO. On board of Polarstern the weather observations are coded according to the FM12/13 code and transferred without delay into the Global Telecommunication

and AWIPEV Stations, as well as from the research icebreaker Polarstern . MOSAiC expedition The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) was a major year-long [...] in the Central Arctic Sea ice, using the research icebreaker Polarstern . MOSAiC was a large international effort spearheaded by the Atmospheric Physics Section at AWI under the lead of Prof. Dr. Markus [...] To be filled! Text is missing Arctic Ocean (Central Arctic) FS Polarstern MOSAiC (Photo: M. Gutsche) The polar oceans in the Arctic and around Antarctica, characterized by their seasonal or year-round

new IODP/ICDP drill proposals. Formation of the Arctic Basin Polarstern for geophysics in the Arctic Ocean Research projects on the formation of the Arctic Ocean Development of the North Atlantic

seabed sediment composition (e.g., soft sediment, rock, etc.). Polarstern has a hull-mounted Teledyne Atlas HYDROSWEEP DS III (HSDS3) full ocean-depth MBES permanently installed. It operates with frequencies

Madiba Sea Mount, south of South Africa, discovered 2013 with RV Polarstern Current-induced seabed structures at the Southern Mozambique Ridge Iceberg scours on the shelf north of Svalbard Contact Dr Boris

Ocean will see an explosion of research activities. With RV Polarstern, our powerful ice breaker and a variety of specially adapted equipment and techniques , AWIs geophysics group has played a leading

). 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 enabled a nearly year-round,