• Annika Kropp

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

  • Peter Gerchow

    Peter.Gerchow@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-1509
    Barkhausenstraße 2, 27568 Bremerhaven

  • "Polarstern" back from Antarctic expedition

    Press release

  • 25 years of research in polar seas aboard the research vessel Polarstern

    Press release

  • 30 years of hard work in the services of research – the Alfred Wegener Institute celebrates the birthday of RV Polarstern

    Press release

  • 50 years Hustedt Collection

    collections. And needless to say, AWI researchers also bring us new samples every year from their “Polarstern” expeditions,” explains Friedel Hinz. Diatoms from Oamaru, New Zealand (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

  • A full loaded vessel

    PS 117 - Weekly Report No 1 | 15 – 20 December 2018
    As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town on 15 December at 4pm, taking off for her 117th expedition to the Antarctic.

  • A stormy send-off

    No. 1 | 5 - 11 December 2021
    After a snowy Bremerhaven departure on Dec 5 th 2021 at 13:00, Polarstern made its way through the port, the locks and towards the English Channel.

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns

  • ARJEL

    same stations on an annual basis. Integrative field survey of the FramJelly project during the R/V Polarstern cruise PS126 (Graphic: Dmitrii Pantiukhin/AWI) How do jellyfish survive in the Polar Night? Which [...] gelatinous zooplankton during several campaigns: RV Heincke HE560 (2020), Walter Herwig WH440 (2020), Polarstern PS126 (FramJelly, 2021) expeditions and the AWIPEV project KOP183 (2022). Sampling for the ARJEL [...] communities. Part of the FramJelly team (collaboration between AWI, GEOMAR & JAMSTEC) onboard R/V Polarstern (PS126), with the towed camera system PELAGIOS from GEOMAR (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/AWI) PhD students