The Biologists-Blog: What we do
Von Jasmin Heiden, Florian Koch et al. We are 12 biologists and chemists on board R.V. Polarstern from several research institutes (Alfred Wegener Institute, ...
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Hydroacoustics
By Thomas Ronge | As mentioned before, we use sediment cores from the ocean floor for our climate reconstructions as well as for our ...
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Elephant Island
By Thomas Ronge | On August 8th 1914 the British barquetine Endurance left the port of Plymouth. The British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and ...
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Night shift
By Thomas Ronge | Recently, we arrived in our working area at the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. Here we want to ...
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Tracking Tectonics and Ice
By Alessa J. Geiger & Max Zundel | With the Polarstern route change at the very beginning of our expedition, exiting the Strait of ...
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Let’s go to the Cape
By Lutz Eberlein and Peter Busch | One focus in the field of geodesy the analysis of crustal dynamics. For our work, we establish ...
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Increasing pressure
By Thomas Ronge | Pressure can be an interesting thing. Deep inside the Earth’s interior, pressure transforms ordinary carbon into glittering diamonds (45-60 kilobar). ...
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Observers aboard R/V Polarstern, a windy campaign in Drake Passage
By Gastón Kreps, Vania Carrera & Bruno Canella | Why are observers aboard R/V Polarstern? The PS97 campaign is planned to be realized in ...