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![[Translate to English:] Polarstern nahe Grönland](/fileadmin/_processed_/8/b/csm_20251011_085043_DJI_0865_MarcelNicolaus_b7d1812b8a.jpg "Polarstern northeast of Greenland")
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Special honour for former AWI Director Antje Boetius
13. November 2025Antje Boetius has received an exceptional honour for her outstanding contributions to marine research and her commitment to protecting the oceans: She was elected into the Order Pour le mérite. The order is an association of artists and scholars with 73 members currently, including 17 Nobel Prize winners. Marine biologist Boetius was director of the AWI until spring of 2025. The formal entry ceremony into the order will take place on 31 May in Berlin. Mehr information.
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![[Translate to English:] Olaf Eisen](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/6/csm_20240608_OlafEisen_750745c8d9.png "Olaf Eisen")
EGU Weertman Medal 2026 goes to Olaf Eisen
11. November 2025The European Geosciences Union (EGU) will honour AWI glaciologist Olaf Eisen with the Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal in 2026. A total of 52 people will be honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2026, which will take place from 3 to 8 May 2026. To the announcement
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New overwintering team is ready to go
10. November 2025In a few days, the nine-member wintering team at Neumayer Station III will begin their journey to Antarctica, where they will start work at one of the world's most remote workplaces. Richard Pozgaj, Annika Pia Salveter, Matthias Hahn, Martin Maier, Isabella Hrabe de Angelis, Lasse Urban (back row, from left to right) and Gina Valerie Schulz, Lea Buse and Ingo Gerstmann (front row, from left to right) will work and live at the station for about a year.
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Iron’s Irony
21. October 2025A new review led by the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen – and with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute highlights how hydrothermal vents on the seafloor shape iron availability and influence the global oceanic element cycles. The review study, titled “Iron’s Irony,” has been published in Communications Earth & Environment. Read MARUM press release
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AG Huntsman Award goes to Karen Wiltshire
14. October 2025The A.G. Huntsman Medal is awarded annually by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) in recognition of outstanding contributions to marine research. This year, Karen Wiltshire, former Vice Director of the AWI and Professor of Climate Sciences at the Trinity College Dublin, was honoured with the award for her scientific work. The award ceremony will take place on 15 October at Government House in Halifax. The distinguished lecture will begin at 10 a.m. in the Ford Auditorium of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and will be broadcast live via Microsoft Teams. The lecture.
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On the issue of microplastics in the body: Melanie Bergmann at WISSENSWERTE
08. October 2025AWI marine biologist Melanie Bergmann participated in the WISSENSWERTE dialogue forum on 30 September as an expert on microplastics. In a panel discussion with other experts from the fields of toxicology, chemistry and medicine, she spoke about the potential effects of plastic particles on the human body and health. WISSENSWERTE is a German-language conference for science and journalism that takes place annually.
