Climate change and life in the Southern Ocean

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Germen Research vessel Polarstern in Atka Bay Antarctica. Credit: Jonas Ziegler Source: Alfred Wegener Institute
Germen Research vessel Polarstern in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Credit: Jonas Ziegler Source: Alfred Wegener Institute

A ten-week expedition to the Lazarev Sea and the eastern part of the Weddell Sea opens this year's Antarctic research season of the German research vessel Polarstern. On the evening of November 28, just some two hours after an official ceremony at the Berlin Museum of Natural History honouring Polarstern's 25th anniversary of service, the research vessel will begin its 24th scientific voyage to the Southern Ocean from Cape Town.


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