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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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Programmed Multicopter Flies Through the Arctic Autonomously
How do you successfully pilot a remote-controlled helicopter in the remote expanses of the Arctic Ocean when the compass can’t provide reliable positioning data? Engineers on board the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker Polarstern specially programmed a multicopter, allowing it to navigate despite the deviations produced by the Earth’s magnetic field near the North Pole. The researchers recently celebrated the copter’s first successful autonomous flight and landing on an ice floe.
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Federal President Gauck opens Sail 2015
Everything revolves around the Sail 2015 in Bremerhaven these days. Germany's Federal President Joachim Gauck opened the international windjammer festival - which happens every five years - on Wednesday 12 August. He took part in the "Sail-in" on board the historic polar research vessel Grönland (built in 1867) owned by the German Maritime Museum (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum). AWI director Karin Lochte was a guest of honour.
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At ground level, in the water, and in the air – marine research in 2015
As promised in our last weekly report, we would like to start with a description of the benthic work, i.e. the work carried out at the deep seafloor. Yet, there is much more to marine biological research, as you will see/read below.
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Change of Staff in the Directorate of the Alfred Wegener Institute
Dr Uwe Nixdorf is the new Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). As resolved by the Board of Governors, on 1 August 2015 he assumed his office as a new member of the Directorate, joining Prof Karin Lochte (Director), Dr Karsten Wurr (Administrative Director) and Prof Karen Wiltshire (Vice Director).
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„Water World“ – Investigations in the water column
The second weekly report from this year’s cruise to the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN will present the work carried out by our planktologists and marine chemists.
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Minister President Albig visits the AWI Helgoland
The Minister President of the German federal state Schleswig-Holstein Torsten Albig visited Helgoland. During this year's summer trip he was guest at the Open Sea School laboratory of the Alfred Wegener Institute last Friday.
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