destination, and finally, at 12:20 pm (CET) on Friday, 28 February, dropped anchor 970 metres from Polarstern, moored to the same floe. While the handover is in full swing on the MOSAiC floe, in Russia another
to these key questions, 50 researchers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research vessel Polarstern are going to depart from Punta Arenas (Chile) on 6 February 2017, bound for the Amundsen Sea –
PS108 - Weekly Report No. 1. | 22 - 28 August 2017 On Tuesday August 22 at 19:00 POLARSTERN left Tromsö with an unusual freight on board into direction of Svalbard. Unusual, because 10 of the 40 scientists
logistics. The AWI makes available its research platforms for scientists from all over the world. Ships Polarstern Heincke Uthörn Mya II Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Arctic Station AWIPEV Kohnen Station Marine
Polarstern Core Repository The section Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores
multibeam swath echsounders also provide valuable information for biological and geological studies. Polarstern has a hull-mounted STN-Atlas-Hydrographic HYDROSWEEP DS III deep-water multibeam swath echosounder [...] calculated by the system software. Multibeam echosounder mapping of the seafloor from icebreaking RV Polarstern (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact Dr. Boris Dorschel Laura Jensen
"Nothing can be taken for granted or planned" The German research icebreaker Polarstern has been drifting through the Arctic Ocean for a year since autumn 2019. Scientists from 20 nations explore the central [...] Thomas Wunderlich took command of his colleague Stefan Schwarze. Contrary to the original planning, Polarstern had to leave the ice to carry out exchanges and supplies at Svalbard. Thomas Wunderlich talks about [...] . What was the journey from Svalbard back to the MOSAiC floe like, and how did it compare with Polarstern Captain Stefan Schwarze’s experiences on the way south? Thomas Wunderlich: We had the advantage
Southern Hemisphere continues until the end of February. The current expedition team on board RV Polarstern has just reported virtually ice-free conditions in its current research area, the Bellingshausen
largest-scale Arctic research expedition of all time: in September 2019 the German research icebreaker Polarstern will depart from Tromsø, Norway and, once it has reached its destination, will spend the next year
r a decade of preparations, it’s finally time: this evening at 8:30 p.m. the German icebreaker Polarstern will depart from the Norwegian port of Tromsø. Escorted by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov