successfully completed the year-long drift expedition MOSAiC under the extreme weather and ice conditions near the North Pole. To ensure that the AWI and the international research community can continue to pursue [...] will be coordinated by a newly formed AWI project group led by aerospace engineer Detlef Wilde. “In nearly 40 years of service, the one-of-a-kind Polarstern consistently set high standards,” says Wilde. “Our [...] group, future users and future operators, also reflects the lessons learned over the Polarstern’s nearly 40 years of service. The new Polarstern will be capable of operating under changing ice and weather
expanse, and with it nearly a quarter of its total surface area. And this is likely to worsen: if we consider the island as a whole, between 2010 and 2013 the entire coast receded nearly twice as quickly as [...] researchers during their work on the Siberian permafrost island. The banana-shaped island is located near the eastern Lena Delta. In the summer of 2012 it was still roughly 7.5 kilometres long and measured
rising temperatures than previously thought and hence is a sleeping giant with regard to potential near-future sea level contributions. It received remarkably little scientific attention in the past. Today [...] change if the position and strength of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) was to change in the near-future. EASI-2 is part of a set of three coordinated but independent expeditions targeting the evolution [...] Arctic deep-sea biodiversity. • Permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the provision of near real-time data on climate variability and ecosystem change in an Arctic marine system. Annual maintenance
cages represent a source of infection from which the parasite can spread to wild stocks. Wild salmon near the salmon farms are infested by the lice and thus weakened. The small crustaceans feed on tissue
30 min. The webcam is permanently online. Data are automatically transferred every hour to the AWI Near-Realtime-Database (NRT) of the AWI computing center in Bremerhaven where they are shown as averages
Paticipants: 9 Meant for girls of grades 5-10 Research workshop water At the "Silbersee" located near Bremerhaven, we will explore the amazingly divers world of plants and animals as well as the ecology
, Riefstahl, F. and Scheinert, M. , Science Team of Expedition PS104, 2020: Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth , Nature, 580 (7801). doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2148-5
frozen the whole year round. In the Northern Hemisphere, these permafrost regions can be found below nearly a quarter of the total surface area. But it’s not likely to stay that way. According to climate models [...] also hope to identify those permafrost regions in which we can expect to see major changes in the near future. They’re the ones we have to keep a close eye on.” INitze_Disturbances_MapAlaska_v01-01.png
area. Alongside the passive acoustic recordings, on-ice and underwater camera systems were deployed near Weddell seal breathing holes as a pilot project to obtain additional visual information on this species' [...] expedition ANT-XXV/2 doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0595_2009 Deployment of 6 GPS tracked PALAOA-S recorders near Maud Rise. RESON TC4032 hydrophone connected to an M-Audio recorder. with solar panel. 2008 Polarstern [...] and power supply for the active hydrophone within the aluminum box. Setting up a PASATA recorder near a group of Weddell seals on the sea ice of Atka bay, Antarcitca.
the Mackenzie Delta, September 2022 UndercoverEisAgenten citizen scientists flying drone missions near Aklavik Drone image at the beginning of the school excursion in September 2022 The project runs from