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

September 2025 On the evening of 4 September, the RV Polarstern gently departed from Longyearbyen, setting sail for the EGC-Sources expedition (Polarstern expedition 150). With calm weather and smooth seas

Expedition to the Weddell Sea December 2024 to March 2025 | RV Polarstern | Stefanie Arndt and Daria Paul joined expedition PS146 aboard RV Polarstern to study the physical and biological properties of the sea

The Polarstern recently ended a two-month expedition in the Central Arctic in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The international and interdisciplinary research team, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, focused

Schedules Ships Timetables Polarstern Auf zur Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) contact: Scientific coordinator 2025 2026 longterm plan until 2027 Heincke Heincke-Expedition HE-408 (Photo:

Contrasts at the end 01. September 2025 Today we leave Polarstern with mixed feelings – both smiles and tears. Our mission was a great success. We came here determined to work together in the best possible [...] 2025 Over the course of this expedition, we traveled about 4,850 nautical miles (8,730 km) with Polarstern, spent 70 hours flying with the helicopter, and devoted 35 days to our ice stations. Yet just as [...] of the great benefit of the sea ice and the distance from the ice edge: there is no swell, and Polarstern lies calm and steady in the water. This allows us to complete our last tasks in peace and, above

New Technologies for Arctic Research
On Tuesday, 22 August the research icebreaker Polarstern will depart the Norwegian port of Tromsø for a unique expedition to the Arctic: the autonomous underwater

measurement systems across the Arctic and Antarctic, using research vessels, such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere

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

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