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Revived oceanic CO2 uptake
A decade ago scientists feared that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb additional atmospheric CO2 would soon be stalled. But the analysis of more recent observations show that this carbon sink reinvigorated during the past decade.
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Summer School: Facing Natural Hazards
The growing world population, climate change, rapid urbanisation, and the international interdependence of economies are all increasing our vulnerability to natural hazards. Such major global challenges are the focus of the second Potsdam Summer School on "Facing Natural Hazards". From 14 to 23 September 2015, 40 young professionals from 28 countries will meet with renowned scientists from Potsdam's Earth and Environmental Science institutions as well as with international experts.
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The transect along 60° E
During the past ten days we continued our transect along 60°E towards north, which we had started at the end of week 35.
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Arctic sea ice is not recovering
Hamburg/Bremerhaven, Germany: Even before the annual summer minimum, typically seen in mid-to-late September, the Arctic sea ice covers 4,35 million square kilometres. The Northeast and Northwest Passages are mostly ice-free already. Scientists from Universität Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) estimate that the ice extent will not hit a record low in 2015 but confirm the negative trend. During the International Polar Meeting in Munich, Germany, leading sea ice specialists will be available for interviews and background discussions.
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Fast, Normal, Large, Ultra-clean!
Big relief! As of last Sunday our “Large Rosette” is finally working.
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Visualisation of the Invisible
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the TU Dresden’s Institute for Cartography present their joint three-dimensional map of the Antarctic continent and the seafloor of the Southern Ocean at this year’s International Cartographic Conference in Rio de Janeiro.
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Between boxes and containers
The beautiful fjord landscape distracted us from the worry if all last minute freight sent to Tromsoe really had made its way onboard - but of course everything was already safely stored by the cargo officer and the crew.
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Scholarship holders finish their education
Today the graduates of the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) say goodbye to the AWI. During the past ten months the scholarship holders from different nations have learnt standard methods of the marine science to be able to use them in future in their homecountries.
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Most comprehensive projections for the future revealed
West Antarctica is one oft he fastest warming regions on Earth. An international team which involved the Alfred-Wegener-Institut researched which impacts the warming has. The new study is published in the current edition of The Cryosphere.
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With High Tech into the Deep Sea
This is the fourth and final weekly report from a technically and logistically very challenging expedition to the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) observatory HAUSGARTEN.
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