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  • Environment Protection Seminar

    Seminar Online Training "Environmental Protection in Antarctica" The provisions of the German "Law for the Implementation of the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty" (see https:/ [...] questions about the content of the training, which you have to answer correctly (see also information in the instruction manual). After [...] provide feedback on the online course "Environmental Protection in Antarctica" via the feedback button at the end of the training and/or send questions and

  • Permafrost Change

    questions were taken up and discussed in the subsequent discussion. 21 July 2020 In the frame of the German EU Council Presidency, a number [...] about important facts of permafrost thawing. A survey at the beginning of the event showed that the topic was new to most participants but of great interest, and also that not all of them were located in the area of Berlin (one even in Luxembourg!) and knew about the workshop

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Geology, 2013). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation [...] of warm Circum-Polar Deep-Water into the deeply incised glacial troughs of the shelves has been recognized as the major mechanism for [...] and shelf of the Pacific margin of West Antarctica The results call for an urgent case of scientific drilling, in particular in the Amundsen Sea

  • Projects

    of anthropogenic lead (Pb) to Antarctic waters and the Pb-inventory of the Southern Ocean water column In November 2023, a ten-week [...] dynamics in the Southern Ocean, where deep, carbon-rich layers of the world ocean outcrop and exchange carbon with the atmosphere ( MacGilchrist et [...] two ice cores from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea, the lower parts of which consist of an approximately 60 or 165 m long sequence

  • Awards and honors

    focuses on understanding the drivers of sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice changes from the satellite era to a warmer world. SO-ASE aims to unravel the [...] Award The unexpected discovery of Hartmut Heinrich has an enormous influence on the work of the section Paleoclimate Dynamics . Deep-sea sediment [...] . Video of the Prize winner

  • Olaf Eisen

    oldest ice, with which we can reconstruct the climate of the past, more than one million years ago? For all of these questions observations on site are essential. This begins with the determination of the ice thickness, continues with the inference of the crystal orientation fabric in larger depth and ends with the composition of the subsurface below the ice, both of which govern flow behaviour of ice. In the end, we hope to make conclusions about how ice masses

  • Stable Isotope Facility

    water (usually in the form of ice) or silicon dioxide (e.g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint [...] Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most important temperature reconstructions of climate history have been carried out: for [...] Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam is one of only eight scientific centres of its kind in the world. A scanning electon microscopy image of purified diatom

  • Proxy Development

    all of us. Human activities are altering the composition of the atmosphere, and understanding how this connects to the changes we observe – and where it might lead – is one of the most pressing questions of our time. Earth's climate has shifted before, under conditions not unlike those emerging today. If we [...] temperature at a moment in the past. Another example is the isotopic composition of boron, which reflects the pH of ancient seawater – a measure of ocean acidity

  • Contact persons at AWI

    conduct of their employer, their superiors, other employees or third parties on the basis of race, ethnic origin, gender, religion or world view [...] : agg.beschwerdestelle @ awi.de More information. Animal Welfare The office of the Animal Welfare Officer is part of the enforcement of the legal regulations on animal welfare at institutions where [...] the interests of severely disabled and equivalent employees on the basis of Section 178 of the German Social Security Code (SGB IX) and

  • Holocene and Present

    of natural variations in the ocean, over the continents, and in the cryosphere. The best way to ascertain the extent of past changes is through the inspection of historical time series of direct measurements or documentation of such environmental observations. Unfortunately, the [...] sea surface temperature patterns that shape a substantial portion of nature variability like the El Nino Southern Oscillation. One objective of such studies is to understand the teleconnections (i.e.