Meteor meets Polarstern at the equator, 5 November 2009, Photo: vdL
Happy Birthday Meteor!
30 September 2011. The research vessel Meteor is celebrating its 25th anniversary and will do so with a two-day-party in its home port Hamburg. Meteor is a state-of-the-art research vessel, managed by the „Leitstelle Deutsche Forschungsschiffe“. During 85 expeditions it has covered a distance of more than one million nautical miles and offered working space for more than 8000 scientists, among them many experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute. This is why we send our compliments and hope that the ship and its crew will have a tremendous open-ship-weekend in Hamburg. Information about the festivities and a special exhibition at the International Maritime Museum Hamburg (address: Kaispeicher B, Koreastr. 1) are available here.
IASC Workshop in Potsdam, Germany
26 September 2011. The IASC Atmosphere Working Group organized a workshop on Atmospheric Investigations on a drifting observatory in the Arctic Sea and Regional and Global Climate Model simulations.
The workshop will be held at the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred Wegener Institute from 26 September to 27 September. For further details please go to: http://iasc.arcticportal.org/index.php/home/service/20112012-activities
REKLIM Newsletter presents results and new fields of research
From now on the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM is going to publish its reseach results and topics in a newsletter, that will be published once a year. The first issue, which was produced by the REKLIM coordination office at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has just been printed. Therein one can find articles about how scientists use coupled climate models to get future climate data, what the chances are to predict future extreme weather events and how they want to investigate the effects of climate change on air aquality. A PDF-file of the newsletter can be downloaded here. Printed copies are available on request. Please contact Marietta Weigelt at the REKLIM coordination office, Email: Marietta.Weigelt(at)awi.de If you look for general information about the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM use their website www.reklim.de
An integrated approach is needed – marine biologists want to improve their predictions of the effects of climate change
To predict the effects of global warming and ocean acidification on aquatic biota scientists need to further interlink ecological and physiological approaches. That is the result of a workshop at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. During the three-day-course 35 early career and senior scientists from Europe and the US discussed new ideas about how increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and oceans, rising air and water temperatures and the increasing occurrence of hypoxia events will affect ectotherms like fishes, crabs or snails. “To make realistic predictions it is necessary to compare field and laboratory data from various study sites. Furthermore we have to include community approaches to extend knowledge for single species for communities and include community interactions such as competition, predator -prey relationships,” says Dr. Felix Mark from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute. He, his co-worker Dr. Folco Giomi and Dr. Stefano Cannicci from the University of Florence had organized the workshop, which offered a chance for early career scientists to present their projects and discuss them with fellow and senior scientists. “There was a wide exchange of opinions between senior and young scientists and many fruitful discussions developed ‘take home messages’,” says Dr. Felix Mark.
Summer School in the Tidal Mudflats
19 September 2011. Each year since 2002, the Institute of Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, the Alfred Wegener Institute (Wadden Sea Station Sylt) and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde have cooperated to organise a summer school on various topics regarding climate and marine research - originating from the idea of imparting the knowledge gained from current research to junior scientists from around the world.
This year "The Summer School on Coastal Research" will take place in Lauenburg und Büsum from the 19th to the 30th of September. Please see the presse release of the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht: "Summer School..."
Congratulations Jacobs University!
17 September 2011. Today the Jacobs University Bremen celebrates its 10th anniversary. Since its establishment as “International University Bremen” in 2001, the number of students has increased from 133 to 1,300 students from 110 nations. Young people from all over the world study on the unique multicultural campus of the private university. Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte, director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, congratulates in the name of the whole institute's staff. She is looking forward to further fruitful cooperation in research projects and student's education.You can find further information in this press release from Jacobs University (PDF)...
REKLIM conference in Leipzig
On Thursday, the 8 September 2011, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM will hold its second conference at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig. The three main topics of lectures and discussions will be (1) From a global perspective to concrete adaptation measurements, (2) The water persepctive and (3) Incidences of damage and resulting costs. On the basis of recent projects and examples REKLIM-coordinator Prof. Dr. Peter Lemke from the Alfred Wegener Institute and his colleagues are going to show, where and how climate change is happening, how it is affecting human life and what its economical consequences look like. The conference’s program is available here.