On February 6, Polarstern will leave for the next Antarctic expedition. The main expedition programm is motivated by the International Polar Year 2007/08. Recording equipment aboard Polarstern, as well as ocean-deployed buoys and drift units designed to sink to deep water will be measuring ocean currents in the Southern Ocean, distribution of trace substances, transport of water bodies, and interactions between sea and ice as well as ocean and atmosphere. This expedition is scheduled to end on April 16 in Punta Arenas, Chile.
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At the end of August, an unusual expedition under Russian leadership will leave for the Arctic Ocean. One of the participants is Jürgen Graeser of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Together with his Russian collegues he will spend eight months on a drifting ice floe in the Arctic.

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