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Expedition
Polarstern departs for the Arctic
On the evening of 10 August 2019, the research ship Polarstern will leave her homeport in Bremerhaven. The purpose of the expedition is to conduct studies at a major long-term monitoring station in the Arctic: the AWI’s Hausgarten observatory in the Fram Strait.
Arctic expedition
The next milestone in Russian-German Arctic research
With the Russian expedition TRANSARCTIC 2019, another milestone in Russian-German cooperation in Arctic research was successfully completed. On board the "Akademik Treshnikov" were seven scientists from German partner institutions (AWI, GEOMAR, University of Bremen and University of Kiel).
Arctic Ocean
The Transpolar Drift is faltering – and sea ice is now melting before it can leave the nursery
The dramatic loss of ice in the Arctic is influencing sea-ice transport across the Arctic Ocean. As experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research report in a new study, today only 20 percent of the sea ice that forms in the shallow Russian marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean actually reaches the Central Arctic, where it joins the Transpolar Drift.
