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Observing the development of a deep-sea greenhouse gas filter
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…
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Excellence Strategy: University of Bremen Successful
New Cluster "The Ocean Floor – Earth‘s Uncharted Interface" at MARUM
Polar policy briefing in the European Parliament
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.
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With geophysics and geology towards 83°05’N – the northernmost position of our expedition
Monday/Tuesday (17/18 Sep 18). A new week begins - fog, calm sea, ice free. Nothing reminds us that we are in the Arctic Ocean (but this may change soon when are steaming northwards end of this week!).
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UN Sustainable Development Platform
Antje Boetius discusses at the United Nations headquarters in New York about the sustainable development goals: Sustainable Ocean Business Action Platform.
We are ready to start – About Super-Puma, polar bear, kastenlot and OBS
Monday (10 Sep 18). Shortly after midnight, (the first weekly report with positive news about the start of our research in a few hours has just been sent out) bad news for us: a case of medical emergency, the expedition’s program has to be stopped, we have to steam with full speed back to Longyearbyen – a long way! At 19:45, however, good news from the captain: tomorrow evening we will have a rendezvous with a long-range rescue helicopter NE of Svalbard at 81°N/41°E where a rescue team will take-over our patient.
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State visit to Finland
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.
Welcome for New POGO Scholars in Berlin
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.
AWI scientists around Antje Boetius at 2nd Dialogue Meeting Marine Research
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.
Arctic sea ice continues to track far below average
When the summer melting of the Arctic sea ice ends in the middle of September, the minimum ice extent is likely to have decreased to an area of 4.4 (+/- 0.1) million square kilometres, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Bremen.
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