Friday February 5, 2016 Position 64° 53’ S, 44º 44’ W Water temperature: -0,8°C Air temperature: -0,3°C We did it! We managed to visit the western flank of the Filchner Depression and latitudes north of parallel 76°S over the axis of the Depression where we collected...

Sunday January 12, 2016 Position 76° 45’ S,  52º 16’ O Water temperature: -1,9°C Air temperature: -14,0°C After breaking ice and navigate between channels and small cracks between the ice floes covering the southeastern Weddell Sea, Polarstern found its way to the...

Sunday January 5, 2016 Posición 74° 52’ S,  34º 02’ W Temperatura del agua -1,9°C Temperatura del aire -8,0°C This year the characteristics of sea ice are being especially harsh. The maps of ice coverage obtained via satellite indicate that sea ice and icebergs almost...

Sunday, December 29 2015 Position 74° 33’ S, 26º 58’ W Temperatura del agua -1,8°C Temperatura del aire -7,0°C In Neumayer we picked up four colleagues dedicated to the study of marine mammals to bring them to the Drescher Inlet, where this research group has been...

Friday December 27 2015 Position 72° 48’ S,  19º 35’ W Water temperature -1,5°C Air temperature -4,0°C Christmas also arrived to Polarstern! On the 24th we had a special dinner with salmon, wine and soft light acclimating our table. Everyone wore clothes that we...

Thursday December 24, 2015 Position 70º 36 'S, 12º 36' W Water temperature -1.5 ° C Air temperature -4.0 ° C The last few days I have been very busy and so I could not send a report on Sunday. Among other things, we finally reached the Ekström ice shelf and left the...

Monday, december 14, 2015 Position 62° 36’S Water temperature -1,7°C Air temperature -1,3°C We left Cape Town! Looking forward starting a new oceanographic expedition we depart from Cape Town. For many on board it will be the first visit to Antarctica and for some...

Next Sunday December 6 research vessel Polarstern departs Cape Town for Antarctica. We will navigate to the south Atlantic towards the German, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research station, Neumayer III, fixed on top of more than 600 ft (200 m) of...