technician Hartmut Sonnabend is preparing the launch of a weather balloon onboard the research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: by Thomas Steuer) Launch of an ozone sonde from the roof of Neumayer III during stormy
had to take the Polarstern where no other research vessel had ever been - directly to the glacier front. An expedition report! The first time I take the helicopter on board the Polarstern to the 79°North [...] territory: No other research vessel has made it to this point so far - The German polar research vessel Polarstern in front of the floating ice tongue of the 79° North Glacier, Greenland. (Photo: Alfred-Wegene [...] -Institut) No research vessel has yet made it to this point During the first five weeks of our Polarstern trip when we work in the Fram Strait we are spellbound as we see the satellite image and observe
both distances to calculate the sea-ice thickness along the survey line. Polarstern When the German polar research vessel Polarstern is breaking ice, some small ice floes tilt in way that scientists are able
travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories and living quarters of the old station – the second Neumayer Station – were
plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux under climate change Sampling at the ice edge with Polarstern; left rosette sampling system, right sediment trap, middle sedimenting matter in 300m depth at
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)
The impact of krill and salps on Fe biogeochemistry in Fe-limited oceanic waters The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn The western Atlantic sector of the [...] experiments with grazers (krill and salps) and their grazing products will be performed during the Polarstern expedition PS112 in the northern WAP in 2018. This project will be carried out in close cooperation
board the RV Polarstern in collaboration with Dr. Christel Hassler (Swiss Polar Institute) from 16 February 2016 to 8th April 2016 (PS97, ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016
___ Diving from RV Polarstern RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The research vessel Polarstern operates in the southern and arctic ocean. As an icebreaker RV Polarstern enables to enter ice [...] North Sea or the Atlantic from the RV Heincke . Dives from our larger research vessels (incl. RV Polarstern) are done using RHIB’S or inflatables according to the ESDP-guidelines „Scientific diving from [...] to conduct diving supported underwater research under ice shields. For further details about RV Polarstern click here . _________________________ Diving at the German Polar Station Neumayer III (Antarctica)