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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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Site preparation for AWI's Technical Centre gets underway
The site preparation for the Technical Centre starts in mid-September. The new building on Klußmannstraße is part of the AWI campus in the 'Handelshafen' area. Anyone interested can find out more on-site on Sunday, 16 September.
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Coastal erosion in the Arctic intensifies global warming
The loss of arctic permafrost deposits by coastal erosion could amplify climate warming via the greenhouse effect. A study using sediment samples from the Sea of Okhotsk on the eastern coast of Russia led by AWI researchers revealed that the loss of Arctic permafrost at the end of the last glacial period led to repeated sudden increases in the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere.
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From Longyearbyen through the Northeast Passage towards the Siberian Arctic
Monday (03.09.18). Since early Monday morning “Polarstern“ is anchoring in the Isfjorden, directly off Longyearbyen, and waiting for the new crew and the new group of scientists, who will be embarked for the coming Leg.
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Kidnapping in the Antarctic animal world?
Pteropods or sea snails, also called sea angels, produce chemical deterrents to ward off predators, and some species of amphipods take advantage of this by carrying pteropods piggyback to gain protection from their voracious predators. There is no recognisable benefit for the pteropod. On the contrary they starve: captured between the amphipod’s legs they are unable to feed. Biologists working with Dr Charlotte Havermans at the Alfred Wegener Institute have investigated this phenomenon as part of a cooperation project with the University of Bremen. In…
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