• Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

      available. A successor to the Polarstern is also planned. Polarstern App Polarstern Chronicle News Polarstern (Photo: Jan Rohde ) News from aboard will be available in the Polarstern app. Here you can download [...] Research ice breaker Polarstern An Icon of German Polar Research The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute [...] Scientific coordinator: Dr. Ingo Schewe Polarstern-App Project proposal Cruise planning Info for expedition participants Expedition programs Publications about Polarstern Raw data in Pangaea Well equipped

    • Schedules

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

    • Dr. Ingo Schewe

      Ingo.Schewe@awi.de
      +49 471 4831 1709
      Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven

    • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

      PS108 2017 Polarstern PS107 2016 Polarstern PS99.2 2015 Polarstern PS93.2 2014 Polarstern PS85 2013 Maria S. Merian MSM29 2012 Polarstern ARK-XXVII/2 2011 Polarstern ARK-XXVI/2 2010 Polarstern ARK-XXV/2 [...] HAUSGARTEN: 31 2025 Polarstern PS148 2024 Polarstern PS143 2023 Polarstern PS136 2022 Maria S. Merian MSM108 2021 Polarstern PS126 2019 Polarstern PS121 2018 Maria S. Merian MSM77 2018 Polarstern PS114 2017 Polarstern [...] 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/3c 2003 Polarstern ARK-XIX/1 2002 Polarstern ARK-XVIII/1 2001 Polarstern ARK-XVII/2 2001 L'Atalante Arctic Ocean 2001 2000 Polarstern ARK-XVI/2 1999 Polarstern ARK-XV/1

    • Research program

      research infrastructure designed for polar research. This includes the icebreaking research vessel Polarstern , the versatile mid-sized research vessel Heincke , the Neumayer Station III in Antarctica, specialized

    • Polar Meteorology

      meteorological and aerosol/trace gas observatories in Antarctica and the meteorological observatory on Polarstern and frequently uses the Polar aircraft. We train machine-learning models to improve our understanding

    • Annika Kropp

      annika.kropp@awi.de
      +49(471)4831-1406
      Barkhausenstraße 2, 27568 Bremerhaven

    • SO-Clim

      sun in the central Arctic. View of drift and pack ice from on board the German research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: Stefan Hendricks / AWI) Affiliation with LMU Munich

    • Home

      supported AWI research in the Arctic and Antarctic, both on land and at sea. Laeisz has operated the Polarstern since New Year's Eve 1995. On 15 January, the AWI honoured this successful collaboration during [...] and international cooperation. Reception in Namibia 15. December 2025 To mark the arrival of the Polarstern in Walvis Bay, Dr Thorsten Hutter, the German Ambassador to Namibia, visited the ship with his [...] MOSAiC It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift. Find out more UN Ocean Conference 2025 Find out more UN Decade

    • Dr. Tobias Boebel

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