A voyage of plankton discovery
By Annette Wilson & Minna Hovi | Greetings from the RV Polarstern! As we approach the equator, obvious changes in the ocean colour can ...
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Sampling the Deep Blue….
By Karen Wiltshire & Pauhla McGrane | The Ocean out here, in this “corner” of the Atlantic at 21° 58 N 21°33 W, is ...
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Seamounts
By Birgit Heim | Seamounts are isolated submarine topographic elevations in the open ocean. They often originate from submarine volcanism, created over so-called hotspots ...
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Floating Summer School on Station
By the students from the Floating Summer School | Ahoy from Polarstern! We have finished our work in the Baye of Biskaye and around the ...
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The Floating Summer School
By the students from the Floating Summer School | It is half past twelve on Saturday 31st of October 2015 and we are writing to ...
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Supplement from the Arctic: Marine litter
Polarstern came back from the Arctic to its homeport Bremerhaven last week. During shipyard time there are not bloggers on board. Time for us to ...
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Auroras!
By Stefan Hendricks and Mario Hoppmann | It. Does. Not. Stop. Polarstern continuously moves and shakes in the swell of the Barents Sea. Usually a cause ...
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Hungry for Particles
By Ole Valk | The in-situ-pumps (ISP) are a very important scientific instrument on this expedition for the GEOTRACES-Team. These pumps are deployed on ...
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The Dirty ice blog
By Sandra Gdaniec | A couple of days ago we found something we have been waiting for and hoping to find during this expedition, ...
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Besides work
By Christiane Uhlig | After more than four weeks on TransArc II and getting used to the long and sometimes spontaneous working days, everybody on ...