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  • UN Climate Change Conference

    still not enough to put the world on the necessary course towards zero emissions. She therefore hopes that the 10th anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement [...] summarized in the recently published 2025 State of the Cryosphere Report : A warming of just 1 °C could jeopardize the stability of the ice sheets in [...] aspects One area of tension in which the COP has been operating from the outset is that climate change does affect all countries in the world, but not

  • Publications

    of the IASS 2024 Symposium; Redefining the Art of Structural Design ( 26.-30.08.2024) Lecture - Helmholtz AI conference : Angre A. “ [...] Grazer-protected Diatoms Decouple Ocean Carbon and Silicon Cycles in the Iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 [...] ), Marvin Frank (Synera) and Ignacio Laraudogoitia (UPV/EHU) about possibilities of the open-engineering platform Synera based on a use case Webinar - (05/2021) Design for AM: What is the future of

  • 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

  • WG Ecosystem Analysis

    Working group Ecosystem Analysis All is one The wonderful world of food webs In our working group "Ecosystem Analysis" we investigate how the food webs of our coastal ecosystems [...] has a length of 17m and an opening width of 7m and an opening height of 3m. The mesh size is 32mm in the wings, 16mm in the midsection and 6mm in the [...] about climate-related or anthropogenic changes, such as the direct and indirect influence of fishing in the Wadden Sea on the use of the

  • Outreach

    coastal ecosystems are increasingly losing their balance. What do the latest findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveal about the state of the oceans? And how are these scientific assessments actually derived? Prof. Dr. Björn Rost, one of the lead authors of the IPCC chapter on oceans and coastal ecosystems, discusses the impacts of climate change on marine life in a [...] Nordsee Zeitung, 6.7.2016) On the occasion of the opening of the Scientific Year 2016/2017, the Nordseezeitung reports on ten marine researchers of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute

  • Expeditions

    climatic and oceanographic changes in the southern Indian Ocean Located in a key region in the southern Indian Ocean the complex topography of the Kerguelen Plateau, one of [...] 2020, comprised seismic reflection studies and geological sampling of the Kerguelen Plateau in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau rises up 2000 m above the surrounding seafloor [...] and the Scotia Sea, the gateway between South America and Antarctica, enabled the exchange of water masses between the southern Pacific and

  • Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

    Research ice breaker Polarstern An Icon of German Polar Research The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the [...] ’s one of the world’s most advanced and versatile polar research ships in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, [...] whether there is a need for additional lab containers, all depend on the research questions and objectives of the researchers involved in a given expedition. In addition, the Polarstern normally has two