Trinity College Dublin, will conduct its fifth training expedition on board its icebreaker RV Polarstern, Germany's largest research vessel. We are offering 20 training scholarships and, for the first [...] data series on the North-South (NoSoAT) and South-North (SoNoAT) transits of the icebreaker RV Polarstern. All 25 successful scholars will be divided into five groups. These groups of five will rotate

February 2023, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more ArcWatch Central Arctic, Eurasian Basins RV Polarstern ArcWatch 1 (PS138) 01.08.2023 – 30.09.2023 ArcWatch 2 (PS144) 10.08.2024 – 12.11.2024 ArcWatch [...] – 07.09.2025 Find out more Island Impact Antarctic Circumpolar Current South Georgia Bassin FS Polarstern, PS133 1.10.2022 – 20.12.2022 Find out more HAFOS long-term time series Weddell Sea; Cape Town [...] Maria S. Merian: St. John's, Canada - Nuuk, Greenland 25.06.2017 - 19.07.2017 Find out more PS 100 Polarstern Central Arctic 07/08 2016 Find out more HE516 R/V Heincke Bremerhaven-Bremerhaven (11.07.2018-12

Research ice breaker Polarstern The Polarstern app Position and weather data in real time as well as up-to-date photos and reports from aboard the Polarstern several times a week: the AWI flagship has [...] research vessel Polarstern drives through the polar regions of our earth in the service of science. Not a jam bucket View back into the chronicle of the research ice breaker Polarstern from the construction [...] expedition participants Expedition programs Publications about Polarstern Raw data in Pangaea News News from aboard will be available in the Polarstern app. Below you can download the reports additionally as

The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned on 9 December 1982, the Polarstern has since logged more [...] latest technologies available. A successor to the Polarstern is also planned. What’s on the odometer? By April 2024, the research icebreaker Polarstern had logged 1,915,605 nautical miles. One nautical [...] Today she’s one of the world’s most advanced and versatile polar research ships in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March

Antarctica look after themselves? In a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern

November 2023, a ten-week geochemical expedition (EASI-2 / PS140) on board the research vessel Polarstern will set off from Cape Town to East Antarctica. This is one of three coordinated Antarctic cruises [...] Protactinium, Radium and Thorium in the Arctic Ocean The Transarc expeditions together with earlier Polarstern campaigns have yielded a unique time series of the chemical and physical properties of the Central

CONTRASTS (PS149) Contrasts of sea ice regimes in the Arctic Ocean during melt season The Polarstern expedition CONTRASTS (2 July to 1 September 2025, also named PS149, ArcWatch-3) investigates the causes [...] The aircraft campaign IceBird summer 2025 complements with regional surveys. Sea ice station with Polarstern (example from MOSAiC 2020). The vessel is moored to the ice floe. Measurements are performed and [...] autonomous devices. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) On-route measurements and regional surveys With Polarstern, the helicopters and also the aircrafts on the IceBird summer expedition (from Station Nord), we

tobias.boebel@awi.de
+49(471)4831-1379
Barkhausenstraße 2, 27568 Bremerhaven

florian.koch@awi.de
+49(471)4831-1136
Barkhausenstraße 2, 27568 Bremerhaven

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