New Function for Ulrich Bathmann
17 October 2011. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bathmann is the new director of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde. He leaves the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) after more than 20 successful years leading the research section of Polar Marine Oceanography and the Department of Biological Sciences. Additionally he was head of the Scientific Council for eight years. In these functions he helped moulding the scientific orientation of the AWI.
Ulrich Bathmann took part in numerous expeditions with the research vessel Polarstern to the polar regions. They will also be subject of his future work: The head of the IOW is connected with the Chair of Earth System Sciences at the University of Rostock.
The Alfred Wegener Institute wishes Ulrich Bathmann all the best for his new duties.
The Alfred Wegener Institute congratulates the University of Bremen
13 October 2011. The Alfred Wegener Institute sincerely congratulates the University of Bremen to its 40th anniversary and really appreciates the excellent cooperation. Professor Dr Karin Lochte: “Much success in the ‘Excellence Initiative’! We are looking forward to an even closer cooperation in future.”
40 years ago – on 14 October 1971 – the University of Bremen was founded during an official ceremony at the Bremen City Hall. For further information, go to: http://www.uni-bremen.de/
Official celebration for more than 40 ESSReS students
10. October 2011. Three years of scientific cross-over to “bridge the gap between the sciences”, as ESSReS coordinator Klaus Grosfeld put it at the official celebration, move the 22 graduate students “somewhere in the wake of Alexander von Humboldt”, as ESSReS spokesman Gerrit Lohmann said. Interdisciplinary courses, soft skill studies, excursions and stays at other institutions were part of the ESSReS programme. AWI director Karin Lochte and expressed her congratulations to the young people who had just finished their multidisciplinary studies. Annette Ladstädter-Weißenmeyer and Bernhard Kramer as representatives for the University of Bremen and Jacobs University stressed the meaning of collaboration across the institutions and across the sciences. At the same time 24 young scientists from different fields were welcomed as the second ESSReS class. “Be prepared for the known, the unknown and the exotic. ESSReS is what you make of it”, said Jacqueline Krause-Nehring for the first ESSReS class. Achim Brauer from the Geoforschungszentrum in his special lecture about climate changes recorded in lake sediments gave handy examples of applied sciences as an outlook onto the young people’s opportunities. After a very warm good-bye to ESSReS coordinator Grosfeld and his wife Lucie the celebration shifted into a more informal gathering in the AWI foyer were opinions were then exchanged and expectations expressed. The images show the first (upper) and second (lower) year class of ESSReS students. (Photos: Stefanie Klebe, Alfred Wegener Institute.)