possible due to the harsh water current at the wreck site another attempt was conducted at HE607 with the help of a ROV of the ICBM. During HE607 it is planned to visit the again the wreck site of the submarine [...] Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven The aims of the cruise HE635 are cross disciplinary investigations of munition dumping sites in the southern German Bight and the test of new underwater crawler for munition monitoring [...] (e.g., patterns of coastal runoff) and chemistry to reveal terrestrial and marine sources of nutrients, OM, freshwater, and the distribution of greenhouse gases of the PCES. The effect of local flux patterns

In fact, the overall good weather conditions lasted until the end of the cruise. On 10th of June, we finally reached the study area of this expedition, the LTER observatory HAUSGARTEN in the Fram Strait [...] quantitative analysis. The molecular samples serve the continuation of observations of the diversity of microbial communities (Fadeev et al., under review) in the framework of the FRAM project. 24-hour [...] oxygen sensors are also used by the microprofiler to map the vertical distribution of oxygen in the pore waters of the uppermost 10-15 cm of sediment. In steps of a tenth of a millimetre, three sensors are

in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March and pursuing research in the Arctic during the summer months. In the process [...] disposal, stored on a total of 9 winches. Food and drink In a month of operations, the Polarstern’s engines and boiler burn ca. 900 tonnes of diesel fuel. In the same amount of time, the ship’s galley bakes 3 [...] An Icon of German Polar Research The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned on 9 December 1982