Press Releases in 2001
12. December 2001: Why is the sea level rising?
AWI research planes reach Neumayer Base Today, on 12th December, the two aeroplanes belonging to the Alfred-Wegener Institut (AWI) arrived at the Neumayer base in the Antarctic. From here, Polar 2 and Polar 4 will begin taking measurements from the planes and will continue to do so for the next few months.
5. November 2001: Climate Research - Climate History
Start of the 2001/2002 Antarctic Season: On 7th November, the research vessel "Polarstern" will be setting off on its nineteenth Antarctic voyage. The trip will consist of six legs with various tasks and crews.
1. November 2001: A Hundred Years of German Antarctic Research:
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Hands Over Special Postage Stamps Aboard the research vessel "Polarstern" in Bremerhaven on 1st November 2001, Karl Diller MdB (Member of the Bundestag), who is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Federal German Minister of Finance, handed over the block of special stamps commemorating a hundred years of German Antarctic research and acquired knowledge of the polar and marine research conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute.
8. October 2001: Ecosystems in the Deep Sea and Volcanoes under the Ice
Research icebreaker "Polarstern" sheds new light on plate tectonics under the Arctic sea ice On 7th October, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel "Polarstern" arrived back in Bremerhaven after an Arctic expedition lasting more than four months. The expedition leaders, namely Professor Jörn Thiede and Dr. Eberhardt Fahrbach, together with 85 research scientists, are returning not only with innumerable specimens of underwater material and a wealth of measurement data, but also with a few surprises.
8. October 2001: Recommended Reading: the Book "Ice-cold Discoveries"
Present-day Polar and Marine Research for All The main research activities of the Bremerhaven institute are now being described in a new book. In its work "Ice-cold Discoveries", which has just been released by the Delius-Klasing publishing house, the AWI would like to present the fascination and uniqueness of this research to a wide public.
8. August 2001: Cannibalism in the North Atlantic
AWI and Scripps Researchers find crustacean species keeps population in check by eating its young Using a combination of field samples from the Norwegian Sea and a new method for analyzing sea life populations, Marc Ohman from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, and Hans-Jürgen Hirche from the Alred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, have shown that tiny planktonic crustaceans called copepods use cannibalism as a mechanism to limit their population.