• Inorganics in organics

      polar ocean View from Rpthera Point, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In vast areas of the ocean, particularly in the Southern Ocean, marine primary production

    • Grazers impact on Fe biogeochemistry

      The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The western Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and the northern part of the Western [...] Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) Duration: 2016-2020 Sebastian Böckmann (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Sebastian Böckmann Lead-PIs: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Prof. Bettina Meyer (AWI)

    • Iron limitation and cycling

      ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean ecosystem exerts a disproportional control on the global carbon [...] sampling in the Drake Passage and along the South Shetland Islands. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project aims to study how microbial processes are driving and interconnecting

    • Phytoplankton community dynamics

      station. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) CO2 incubation experiments with Ryder ay phytoplankton. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Sampling of seawater containing [...] British research station Rothera on the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate models indicate that the Southern Ocean is particularly prone to climate change [...] containing Ryder Bay phytoplankton. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn

    • Food Web Analysis - From sample to model

      Model - 2017 edition Summer school in network analyses, edition 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) header (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Aim of the course Introduction into food web analysis using the [...] communicated by explaining and exercising simple modelling. Venue Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Target audience Advanced students,

    • Sensors

      Sensor Information Heights of the meteorological sensors (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Timing The time information, offered in all files listed in www.pangaea.de/search , represents

    • continuous

      König-Langlo. Mounting of an ultrasonic anemometer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Visilility sensor FS11 and Ceilometer CL51 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

    • Ceilometer

      Ceilometer Backscatter Profiles Ceilometer CL51 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) In October 2010 the Ceilometer CL51 ( VAISALA , Finnland) was mounted on the monkey deck of Polarstern. It is able to measure

    • Numerical Modelling

      atmosphere . Unstructured Finite Element mesh of the Greenland ice sheet. (Graphic: Thomas Kleiner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Performance report

      foam and the Optimare/Sea-Bird Electronics CTD-logger on top before deployment in 2007. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Automated Elevator System by NGK, Japan, consists of a sophisticated combination [...] mooring Fig. 2: The CTD-logger is initially fixed to the winch frame utilizing corrosion (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The mooring which contains the NGK Automated Elevator System and the Optimare/Sea-Bird [...] interval (duration 30 min every 12 h). Pressure is in dbar against CTD-logger record number (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The NGK system came back on deck in an as-new optical condition, and so did the Op