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On 25 and 26 October, the spotlight in Berlin will be on Arctic research. On the first day, the focus will be on the Arctic Science Forum, where experts from 20 nations, representatives of indigenous peoples, and NGOs will meet to discuss international collaboration in the context of Arctic research. On the second day, the 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial will convene, followed by public events that will round out the conference.

This morning, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Over the previous six weeks, nearly 100 contributing researchers and crewmembers had engaged in geoscientific fieldwork, sea-ice experiments and meteorological research in the Central Arctic. In addition, students from the German-Canadian graduate training programme ArcTrain were on board.

A team of 22 scientific expedition participants around deep-sea biologist Dr Thomas Soltwedel from the Alfred Wegener Institute is currently conducting research on board RV Maria S. Merian in the so-called AWI HAUSGARTEN.

It takes time to do a thing well, this also and specifically applies to the deep sea. In a long-term study, marine scientists from Bremen for the first time observed the colonization of a deep-sea mud volcano after its eruption. Only slowly, rich life develops around the crater. The first settlers are tiny organisms that eat methane escaping from the volcano. Thereby, they keep this greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere. By and by, other microbes and eventually higher organisms settle. The present study describes how the colonization of the mud…

New Cluster "The Ocean Floor – Earth‘s Un­charted In­ter­face" at MARUM

Today, EU-PolarNet is presenting urgent polar issues in the European Parliament in Brussels. During a two-hour long policy briefing themed “At the frontline of climate change: Key changes in the Polar Regions that call for European action” the AWI coordinated and EU funded project outlines its five polar white papers.

Antje Boetius discusses at the United Nations headquarters in New York about the sustainable development goals: Sustainable Ocean Business Action Platform. 

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be paying a state visit to the Republic of Finland from 17 to 19 September. AWI director Antje Boetius is part of the delegation.

Member of the German Bundestag Ernst Dieter Rossmann, AWI Director Antje Boetius and Karen Wiltshire, Chair of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), welcome tonight the ten new scholarship holders of the Centre of Excellence at the Helmholtz Association in Berlin.

Today representatives of science, authorities and politics come together for the 2nd Dialogue Meeting "Marine Research and Marine Conservation" in Berlin. Among other things, they exchange information about research projects in German coastal waters.