FS Polarstern ANTXXIX/1
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | FS Polarstern (06AQ) |
| Cruise identifier | ANTXXIX/1 |
| Cruise period | 2012-10-26 — 2012-11-27 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Port of return | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Objectives | With the disembarkation in Cape Town on 27th November 2012, the cruise leg ANTXXIX/1 very successfully reached its end after 32 days at sea. Samples and data were collected at 19 stations along the cruise track, a deep-sea mooring at the foot of Walvis Ridge was exchanged successfully and many en route measurements and equipment tests were conducted. In the framework of the EUROPA - "European Universities & Research Onboard Polarstern in the Atlantic" programme, for the first time, Polarstern was used for an international and interdisciplinary hands-on training initiative bringing together 37 master students, doctoral candidates and lecturers from eleven different universities and research institutions. Around 87 hours of station time were available during the cruise leg, out of which 52 hours were used for biological sampling with different plankton nets and with the optical plankton profiler LOKI, while 27 hours were needed for oceanographic measurements with the CTD and mooring work. During further eight hours hydroacoustic tests with different echosounders were conducted. |
| Chief scientist | Holger Auel (University of Hamburg, Department of Chemistry) |
| Project | European Universities & Research Onboard Polarstern in the Atlantic (EUROPA) |
| Cruise report |  (12.48 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | English Channel North Sea North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) South East Atlantic Ocean (limit 20W) |
| Track charts | (3.40 MB) |
