team froze the German Icebreaker R/V Polarstern into the sea ice for a year. For a year, the team drifts with an ice floe and strives to understand the Arctic climate system and its future. The ...

New collaborative research expedition on board the RV Polarstern in the Southern Ocean funded. In collaboration with ...

The Polarstern with a maximum displacement of 17.300 tons is a double-hulled icebreaker operational at temperatures as low as –50°C, which would enable her to over winter in the ice sheets of ...

In September 2019, the German research vessel Polarstern will depart for the Arctic to drift with the sea ice for a year. 600 scientists from 17 nations on board will study the dwindling, ...

“Neumayer III,” as well as a fresh crew for the research icebreaker “Polarstern.” According to the Argentine foreign ministry release the authorization request for the icebreaker to access ...

Researchers unload scientific instruments from the Polarstern and put them on sleds for delivery to Met City, located about 600 meters from the ship. Esther Horvath After setting up a tent as a ...