By Katharina Hochmuth | At midday on February 8th, we began our long transit from Punta Arenas, Chile, to the Amundsen Sea on the coast of West Antarctica – the main area of interest for Polarstern Expedition PS104. After the anchor was lifted in Punta Arenas, we slowly left the port city and cruise … [Read more...]
By Santiago Pineda Metz And so they days pass by, and here we are almost finishing our magical work. Fear not, I did not misuse the word “magical”, and fear not my dear reader, I will explain a bit more about this. Our work on board RV Polarstern during PS96 was done using a gear that is … [Read more...]
By Henrik Christiansen | Scientists are very busy people (which is also why they rarely write blog entries on time). To be honest most of them could serve as textbook examples of ‘a workaholic’. One may roam the ship at any impossible (night) time and will stumble across sleepy creatures that … [Read more...]
By Leonard Rossmann | On the 27th of December it was time to say good-bye again. Since we left the Neumayer III station, we had four extra scientists on board. Their main goal was the Drescher inlet. There they want to spend the next 5 weeks and run a field campaign until we pick them up … [Read more...]
By Henrik Christiansen | On sixth of December, research icebreaker “Polarstern” began its journey from Cape Town towards Antarctica for the now 30th time. Besides resupplying the German Antarctic station Neumayer III a large multidisciplinary science program is scheduled. The ship is … [Read more...]
At the moment we are on our way to Tromsø, where our Arctic adventure finally ends. Here, we would like to give you the opportunity to get an insight in the life on board RV Polarstern as an ArcTrain student. 07:00... Alarm rings. Press the snooze button. Get up ten minutes later. Take a shower - … [Read more...]
