Exploring Ice and Oceans

Researchers from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Hamburg have come to Bremerhaven to process and analyze sea ice cores from the MOSAiC expedition at AWI. For this work, the freezer laboratory container of the MOSAiC expedition, which is normally only used at sea, has been set up in front of Building E. The researchers' goal is to better understand the growth history of sea ice and its optical properties. More information

AWI Director Antje Boetius will receive the Ernst Ludwig Winnacker Award from the Bayer Foundation on January 30. The award recognizes scientists who contribute to the dialogue between science and society. The award ceremony will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of "Science and society - a broken relationship?". In addition to Boetius, the panel will include Jeanne Rubner from the TU Munich and Patrick Cramer from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.

Yesterday, German Federal Research Minister Stark-Watzinger visited the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). She was joined by researchers from the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) and the AWI research unit in Potsdam to talk to scientists about the need for CO2-neutral energy sources. The AWI was represented by Ulrike Herzschuh, Julia Boike and the head of the research unit Bernhard Diekmann.