for the Study of Arctic Climate ). From fall 2019 to fall 2020, the German research icebreaker POLARSTERN drifted frozen through the Arctic Ocean. The data collected will be valuable for generations to
in the upper Arctic basins (Figure). In addition to research cruises by icebreaking ships, e.g. Polarstern and air-supported spring expeditions, autonomous ice-tethered buoy systems like FRAM or MIDO have
Greenland is shrinking – at an ever faster rate. To understand why AWI researchers had to take the Polarstern where no other research vessel had ever been – directly to the glacier front. An expedition report
As the sea-ice recedes, the Arctic Ocean will see an explosion of research activities. With RV Polarstern, our powerful ice breaker and a variety of specially adapted equipment and techniques , AWIs geophysics
polar and maritime research (i. e. the AWI-Chronicle - available only in German), on RV Polarstern (i. e. the Polarstern-Chronicle ) and on the AdP (further readings). Information and Knowledge Ressources
of Sea Research. doi: 10.1016/j.seares.2015.03.004 . Salewski, Christian R.; Löschke, Sina: RV Polarstern - glimpses of its history, Bremerhaven 2015. Salewski, C. (2017): Die stille Frühgeschichte der
ner-Institut) Zooplankton time series of the Polarstern expeditions Background Several long-term data sets exist which have been collected on RV Polarstern for the past 30 years but these have never previously [...] particularly for the Weddell Sea and adjacent areas such as the Scotia and Lazarev Seas Summary of Polarstern stations in the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled and analyzed (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)
he is in charge of the meteorological observatories at the station and on the research vessel Polarstern. 1. There are already two predecessors of Neumayer Station III and, of course, several other research
administration. These include: a global network: from building to building, from site to site, from Polarstern to Neumayer III Station, AWI-wide identity management and the provision of staff and guests with