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White (ice) in front of a black background

The over winterer team at the Neumayer station witnessed the last solar eclipse of the year In the late evening of November 23rd (climax 23:27 UTC) a partial solar eclipse was visible in the Antarctic.
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Climate Research: Oldest Ice under Procession

Scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are handling the oldest ice that has ever been unearthed: The ice cores, which were drilled during last winter in the Antarctic research station Dome C, are up to 900.000 years old.
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Solar storm measured at Neumayer

Disturbance in the Magnetic Field   The great geomagnetic storm from 29 Octobre 2003 encountered the Magnetometers on Neumayer-Base/Antarctica at 06:12 am.
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Global research in sea and sky

Polarstern sets off for the Antarctic On Wednesday, 22nd October, 2003, the research ice-breaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) - Polarstern - will depart on her 21st Antarctic expedition. Studies of the decay of the ozone layer and of communities on the Southern Ocean sea floor are planned.
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Polarstern returns to Bremerhaven

19th Arctic research expedition successfully concluded On 13th October, Polarstern, research ice-breaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will return to Bremerhaven after a 20 week long research cruise in Arctic waters. Over 200 scientists from 11 nations made use of the 118 metre long ship to research biological, geological and oceanographic processes west of Ireland, in the Arctic deep sea and in the fjords of east Greenland, during two cruise legs.
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Victor disembarks

Polarstern completes eleven week international deep sea expedition According to plan, the Polarstern, research ice-breaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), will enter the port of Tromso, Norway, on August 7th. The aims of the completed expedition were to examine deep sea corals southwest of Ireland, the Hakon Mosby mud volcano northwest of Norway and the AWI "Hausgarten", a long-term deep sea station west of Svalbard in a depth of 2600 metres. Victor 6000, a deep sea remotely operated vehicle (ROV) run by French…
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Coral Paradise in the deep, dark and cool waters west of Ireland

On Friday, June 20th 2003, the German research ice-breaker POLARSTERN of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven/ Germany will visit the port of Galway/ Ireland, after a 3-week international expedition to study the deep-water coral reefs to the west of Ireland. Over 40 scientists working on a variety of European-funded research projects and from marine institutes in Ireland, Belgium, the UK, France and Germany are participating in the expedition. They will depart the ship to return to their home institutes in…
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A hole develops in the ozone layer

Beginning of an international measurement campaign in the Antarctic On 14th June an international measurement campaign, lead by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute's Potsdam research centre, will begin in the Antarctic, with the aim of uncovering the still unclear processes of ozone destruction during the Antarctic twilight. Nine measurement stations in the Antarctic, including the German Neumayer Station run by AWI, will release hundreds of weather balloons over the course of four months, providing a precise picture of when, where and…
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AWI-Director elected member of the Russian

Professor Jorn Thiede, director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) at a general assembly held on May 22nd.
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World climate and the Arctic

Climate researchers meet in Potsdam On 2nd and 3rd of June, 2003, climate experts from Europe and the USA will meet together at the Alfred Wegener Institute's Potsdam centre for a workshop on comparing current computer models of the Arctic.