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Identifying age measurements distorted by fossil fuel emissions
Good news for archaeologists and natural scientists! You will be able to continue to use the radiocarbon method as a reliable tool for determining the age of artefacts and sample materials. The reduction of the carbon isotope 14C in the atmosphere accelerated by anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and the associated distortion of the radiocarbon age of materials can be precisely identified - by measuring the carbon isotope 13C. This is the result of a study by AWI geoscientist Dr Peter Köhler, which was published today in the journal Environmental…
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Saharan dust and atmospheric smoke in Neptunes´ realm.
The week began with dust in the atmosphere and ended with Neptune's arrival on our ship.
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Working near the Equator
In the past week we have been travelling from 30° N towards the Equator and it has been getting steadily warmer with each mile traversed.
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Bound for Cape Town
When one spends hours in the winch room deploying rosette and CTD to 4900 m depth. one has a lot of time to deliberate the passing of the first expedition week at sea, even though one is concentrating hard with the winch driver making sure the sampling bottle releases are at the right depths.
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Lupinemeal is a sustainable and low-cost alternative to fishmeal in fish food
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum Bremerhaven have taken a major step forward in their search for an alternative to fishmeal, an expensive and ecologically problematic fish feed ingredient.
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Visit in Bremerhaven before expedition starts
A group of organisators and participants of the transit cruise of the so-called Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) visited the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar dnd Marine Research (AWI) last Saturday. The guests subsequently started for their expedition with the research vessel Akademik Treshnikov from Bremerhaven towards Cape Town.
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The Alfred Wegener Institute receives Technical Centre
Together with the city of Bremerhaven and the Fischereihafenbetriebsgesellschaft (FBG - fishing port operator), the Alfred Wegener Institute has specified the potential use of the area on the Klußmannstraße. A Technical Centre for technical development work as well as expedition preparations is to be built on the opposite side of the AWI campus at "Am Handelshafen". The design by kister scheithauer gross architects (ksg), who also realized parts of the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences, prevailed in a tendering procedure.
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Arctic Biodiversity
Norwegian and German scientists meet for a seminar in the "Haus der Wissenschaft" in Bremen for a seminar on 16 November 2016. Together they are going to talk about Arctic biodiversity: Current state and research perspectives.
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The quest for the oldest ice on Earth
In Antarctica internationally leading ice and climate scientists of 14 institutions from ten European countries are looking for the oldest ice on Earth. Goal is to find the place, where in Antarctica the ice core can be drilled which goes furthest back in Earth’s history. Such a core would allow to deciphering past processes in the climate system to improve prognoses for the future. The European Commission funds the project “Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice” (BE-OI) with 2.2 million Euros, which is coordinated by the German Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz…
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EU Horizon 2020 Project APPLICATE kicks off
An EU-financed project investigating ways to improve weather and climate prediction in the face of a rapidly changing Arctic officially started this month. Known as APPLICATE (Advanced Prediction in Polar regions and beyond: modelling, observing system design and LInkages associated with a Changing Arctic climaTE), the €8 million project, financed by the EU HORIZON 2020 Research and Innovation programme, involves 16 partners from nine countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and will be carried…
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