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Scholarship
Become an international ocean expert
Applications should be received by the CofE Team by 20th February 2016
[12. February 2016]
The Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence provides world class education and training courses in the field of observational oceanography. Apply now for the international scholarship.
Event
REKLIM participates in environmental exhibition of the German Federal President
Climate Initiative shows successful web and school projects in Berlin
[02. February 2016]
The Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM ("Regionale Klimaänderungen"/Regional Climcate Change), coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is one of 190 featured exhibitors at the 5th "Woche der Umwelt" (Week of the Environment) - an environmental exhibition of the Federal President and the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU). The event will take place on 7 and 8 June 2016 in Berlin's Schloss Bellevue and presents the topic "Environmental Protection" with its associated economic and social chances to thousands of invited guests.
Snow depth
Happy birthday, snow buoys!
Two years on Antarctic sea ice: Longest autonomous time series to observe snow depth
[20. January 2016]
Since January 2014 two snow depth buoys deliver continuously information about the snow depth on Antarctic sea ice. During this time they traveled 5200 kilometres and each took more than 17500 measurements along the route.
StratoClim
Official Opening of Palau Atmospheric Observatory
Measurements in an area of global importance for climate research
[15. January 2016]
Today the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University Bremen officially open their Palau Atmospheric Observatory at the Campus of the Palau Community College (PCC). The new observatory is part of the European climate research project StratoClim, a consortium of 28 European research organisations led by AWI, and is operated in close collaboration with the PCC.
Roofing Ceremony
Roofing Ceremony at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam
Construction Work on Annexe Right on Schedule
[14. January 2016]
The construction work on the new annexe of the AWI Potsdam (Telegrafenberg) is right on schedule. AWI's construction project manager Elke Meißner announced this good news at the official topping-out ceremony in Potsdam yesterday.
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