buoys for other partners making use of the regular expeditions into the ice covered oceans with Polarstern, 3) we develop new platforms and help to improve existing systems to advance our observational
were on a Norwegian krill fishing ship. How does day-to-day life on board a research vessel like Polarstern differ from life on board a commercial ship? Everything on board is focused on commercial krill [...] There’s no consideration given to important research questions or our sample-gathering plans. On the Polarstern, when the findings we make on board raise interesting new questions, we have a certain degree of
Approximately one quarter of all AWI expedition participants in research cruises aboard the RV Polarstern are international visiting scientists. AWI primary partner institutions Institution Country British
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
this time - have a rather low resolution. Precipitation Precipitation measurements on board of Polarstern started at 1994-10-18 (DOSA 450, Friedrichs, Germany). The sensor is unable to measure solid p
where Barbara Niehoff examined her copepods: in laboratories on board the AWI research icebreaker Polarstern, at the institute in Bremerhaven or in field experiments off the coast of Spitsbergen and Norway
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