RV Polarstern starts the Arctic season
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are setting out with the research vessel Polarstern towards

, Astrid Bracher (8) (1) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: msoppa@awi.de (2) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research [...] Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: Stvetlana.Losa@awi.de (3) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: t [...] Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany, Email: rozanov@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de (8) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: a

, Astrid Bracher (8) (1) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: msoppa@awi.de (2) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research [...] Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: Stvetlana.Losa@awi.de (3) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: t [...] Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany, Email: rozanov@iup.physik.uni-bremen.de (8) Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bussestrasse 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany, Email: a

Environmental Physics (IUP), University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, D- 28359 Bremen, Germany 2Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Busses- traße 24, D-27570 Bremerhaven

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Professor Antje Boetius, Alfred Wegener Institute, was elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. Furthermore, she will be awarded the Goldschmidt Medal 2016 due to be presented in

heute noch Reste von zumeist degradierten Austernbeständen bzw. -bänken existieren, stehen diese wegen ihrer hohen ökologischen Wertigkeit mittlerweile im Fokus europäischer Naturschutzbemühungen. So ist [...] reglementierte Befischung war allein lizensierten Pächtern erlaubt. Die „Holsteinischen Austern“ wurden wegen ihrer guten Qualität besonders geschätzt. Sie wurden u.a. an den 9 Status der Europäischen Auster [...] starke Tidenstrom brachte ihnen viel Nahrung, erschwerte aber auch die Ansiedlung der Austernlarven. Wegen der größeren Wassertiefe waren die Bänke keiner Frostgefahr ausgesetzt (Abbildung 2). Die Autoren

cause of this paradox has been tracked using million-year-old bee pollen by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Cologne, and international partner institutions. The results suggest

warming results in fundamental changes to important ocean currents. As scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute show in a new study, wind-driven subtropical boundary currents in the northern and southern

most productive alga in this inhospitable world," says biologist Dr Klaus Valentin of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). He is a member of the Phycology

Helgoland. During this year's summer trip he was guest at the Open Sea School laboratory of the Alfred Wegener Institute last Friday.