Exploring Ice and Oceans

On 9 August 2022, eleven researchers from seven countries left Bremerhaven, bound for the Arctic. On board the research ship Heincke, the RISING expedition – an initiative of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ARctic JELlies (ARJEL) at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) – had begun. The international team included experts from the AWI, GEOMAR and the University of Bergen. Their goal: to survey jellyfish along a poleward oriented line of latitude: from northern Norway, through the Barents Sea to the…

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ICYMARE, a conference organised by and for young marine scientists, will take place in Bremerhaven from 13-16 September. Organized entirely by volunteers, the international meeting offers the opportunity to exchange ideas with other young researchers and to build up a network at an early stage. ICYMARE is an event of the Bremen Society for Natural Sciences and will take place at the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven and the AWI – with many contributions from AWI young researchers.

AWI Director Antje Boetius will give a talk on "Eyewitnesses Anthropocene: Expeditions to the End of the World" at the 132nd Assembly and 200th Anniversary of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (GDNÄ) on September 8, beginning at 4:30 pm. The lecture will be streamed live. In addition, AWI will present the photo exhibition on the MOSAiC expedition: "Polarnight" by Esther Horvath at the assembly.