Exploring Ice and Oceans
The polar regions and the oceans play a central role in the global climate system. We explore the Arctic, Antarctic, and the seas and coastal regions of the temperate latitudes. From the atmosphere to the deep sea. Climate research for us and for future generations.
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To the smoking volcano of Saunders Island
Like last week, we spent the sixth week in the southernmost area of the South Sandwich Plate, from the back-arc spreading ridge of the segments 8 and 9 in the west to the Kemp Caldera. The volcano of Kemp Caldera is part of the collision zone with the South American plate to the...
Find out more >Expedition to the Most Powerful Ocean Current
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the planet’s most powerful and arguably most important. It is the only one to flow clear around the globe without getting diverted by any landmass, sending up to 150 times the flow of all the world’s rivers clockwise around...
Find out more >Major questions concerning the role of microscopic life and...
"Microbiology of Global Change" is the name of the research field that deals with microbial responses to global warming and pollution. The journal "Nature Reviews Microbiology" asked Antje Boetius according to her assessment.
Find out more >Events
MS Wissenschaft: Künstliche Intelligenz
Exhibition ship in Potsdam
When: Mo, 20.05.2019 - Th, 23.05.2019
Who: Wissenschaft im Dialog gGmbH (im Auftrag des BMBF)
